I just got back to Beijing from a week-long visit to Canberra last week. We'll be returning for good in August. It was a very long flight both ways - the plane to Australia was delayed for three hours and the plane on the way back was held over in Shanghai for two hours. ( Read more... )

We went to Datong last weekend. Our photos are below.

Part 1: Beijing Train Station, our hotel and the Hanging Monastery/悬空寺
Part 2: 恒山 Mount Heng, Remnants of the Great Wall, Yungang Grottoes/云冈石窟, Datong Train Station and the trip homeGenerally the nicer photos are the Canadians and the photos of goofy things are mine :P Also, the Canadian and ( Read more... )

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On the evening of Friday, 5th June, we caught a Hainan Airlines flight from Beijing to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. It was a very quick flight - just over an hour and the flight was very comfortable. The hotel had arranged for us to be driven to Pingyao ( yet another ancient town). Photos below, mostly taken by the Canadian :)

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The Canadian Mimi and I visited the Silver Mountain Pagoda Forest (银山塔林） on Friday, 29 May 2009. Silver Mountain is approximately 60km outside of Beijing and Mr. Zhao our driver, picked us up at 9am. He's always super-conscientious and was actually already waiting at 8.30am for us ( Read more... )

Index to Photos

For the last 3 weeks, we've been on the road, largely following the draft itinerary I prepared last month. The Canadian's parents have returned to Canada and I think they had a great time. We have thousands and upon thousands of photos, but I've sifted through and picked out some of my more favourite ones :) Index to the photos ( Read more... )

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