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Geee, isn't she cute.
The landscape near Guilin and Yangshuo contains the most dramatic karst scenery you will find. It is a great place for bike riding too.
Yum yum, left over bones and offal from a filthy Chinese market. Pass the salt.
The Chinese government are very honest about the fact that they lie to their people!
The Stone Forest near Kunming has some very unusual rock formations.
The trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge was my favourite part of China. This photo was dubbed 'Indiana Meaney' by some friends.
Tiger Leaping Gorge again. If you'll look carefully you'll see James on the left with his arms stretched wide.
Meaney thinks nothing of getting up close and personal with one of the world's deepest gorges!
The World Heritage town of Lijiang is a lovely place and you can still find some older people there that wear traditional clothes.
A slender, green forest on the slopes of the sacred Mt. Emei.
This toilet has more privacy than some I've seen. I mean, at least it has a wall between each hole!
A beautiful bridge near Chengdu.
Wheeeee!
The Great Buddha of Leshan was for hundreds of years the world's largest statue. It is carved into the rock of a cliff.
Buy shite, get your shite here, we sell nothing but shite, the best value shite in town!
A fur seller insisted on me trying on his wares.
The Terracotta Warriors, Xi'an. This army of over 6,000 lifesize clay figures are meant to guard, in death, China's first and most hated emperor, Qin. He was also responsible for building the major part of the Great Wall.
Visitors are not supposed to take photographs of the warriors because the authorities want to screw tourists by having to pay $20 for an exclusive photo. Bollocks to that I say!
Huashan, another sacred mountain, is classic China, full of temple-topped peaks joined to each other by vertiginous staircases. It's a pity it was misty the day I visited it.
Shaolin Monastery is the home of Kung Fu. Matt and I give our own interpretation of the discipline.!
Some people just ain't got no respect.
You might expect Shaolin Monastery to be an oasis of peace. It's not. It's grossly commercialised for the masses of Chinese tourists that visit each year and contains a modern 360 degree movie theater, a cable car ride, tons of tacky tourist junk stalls and this incongruous silver aeroplane. What's it doing here??
Watch out for those Terracotta Warriors chaps, backs to the wall!
Tiananmen Square, the world's largest city square. At one end can be seen the entrance to the Forbidden City where the emperors once lived. The entrance now has a painting of Mao-Tse Tung over it, you can barely make it out.
The Great Wall. Most of the wall has been carted away by locals for building their houses and stuff but there is still large bits left. And it is not the only man made object visible from outer space.
The Great Wall is enhanced by having me in the picture too!
The Mao painting at the entrance to the Forbidden City. Despite the gross damage he did to China Mao is still revered by most people.
The beautiful Temple of Heaven, Beijing.
Towering sand dunes at Dunhuang, in the desert north of Tibet.
A statue of Mao-Tse Tung in Kashgar in the very west of China.
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