Re: Chinese Tea Set （中国茶具）
Okay, I finally got around to getting my disposable cameras from China developed and let me just say that Chinese disposable cameras suck. All these pictures are so unnecessarily grainy, wtf? But I thought I'd upload them anyway, because some of them look kind of nice despite the graininess.
So this is quite obviously Tiananmen Square. From left to right: Marki, Julia, Santy, Rodd, Brenden, Gobind, Colin, Carina, Harrison, Dr. Chen, and me crouching.
More of delightful Mr. Mao.
The Forbidden City, one of the gardens at the front. It was really hard to get shots with no people in them, do you have any idea how many people were wandering the Forbidden City with us?! LIKE A ZILLION.
Like the sign states, this is Houhai Nanyan, the south frontage of Houhai which is a lake in central Beijing, not too far from the Forbidden City. There are a ton of bars and tourist attractions there, but it's apparently (according to Wikipedia) also an attraction for expats living in Beijing.
The inner courtyard of one of the traditional sihehyuan (四合院, literally "four walled courtyard") houses we visited, which form the hutong (胡同, literally "water well") alleys we went into after visiting the drum tower. This was probably my favorite part of the trip to Beijing, because it was so un-touristy compared to the rest of what we did. These houses have been standing for hundreds of years, in some cases; in order to still own a traditional houses in Beijing, it has to have been in your family for four generations at least.
This particular house was owned by a woman who had also been an Olympic housing person, i.e. athletes lived in her house during the Beijing Olympics. She was really sweet, even though she needed a translator for most of what she told us.
Another siheyuan house that we passed but didn't enter.
So this is quite obviously Tiananmen Square. From left to right: Marki, Julia, Santy, Rodd, Brenden, Gobind, Colin, Carina, Harrison, Dr. Chen, and me crouching.
More of delightful Mr. Mao.
The Forbidden City, one of the gardens at the front. It was really hard to get shots with no people in them, do you have any idea how many people were wandering the Forbidden City with us?! LIKE A ZILLION.
Like the sign states, this is Houhai Nanyan, the south frontage of Houhai which is a lake in central Beijing, not too far from the Forbidden City. There are a ton of bars and tourist attractions there, but it's apparently (according to Wikipedia) also an attraction for expats living in Beijing.
The inner courtyard of one of the traditional sihehyuan (四合院, literally "four walled courtyard") houses we visited, which form the hutong (胡同, literally "water well") alleys we went into after visiting the drum tower. This was probably my favorite part of the trip to Beijing, because it was so un-touristy compared to the rest of what we did. These houses have been standing for hundreds of years, in some cases; in order to still own a traditional houses in Beijing, it has to have been in your family for four generations at least.
This particular house was owned by a woman who had also been an Olympic housing person, i.e. athletes lived in her house during the Beijing Olympics. She was really sweet, even though she needed a translator for most of what she told us.
Another siheyuan house that we passed but didn't enter.