Through China

After my job was finished, I decided to travel home by...	This is the countryside of Guangdong, from a train window.	The train goes from Guangzhou to Hangzhou.
			Arrived at Hangzhou, the beautiful city by the west lake.	It's a rather green city, with a lot of mousture.
By the West lake, there are lush beautiful gardens.			I like these kinds of bridges.	The West lake.
		A statue of a water buffalo out in the water.
		The Leifeng pagoda in the background.
Outside of Hangzhou lies the tea plantations that...	Here is the Dragon Well itself. It has various...
	The Well was situated in a beautiful garden, with...		I followed the paths up on the mountain and out into the...	A great view over the West lake and the city in the...
The path to the tea.			The Longjing village in the valley. Tea bushes in the...
Panoramic picture of the valley.	A tea bush.	A tea leaf.		Back down to the garden.
An example of old style chinese script. It is still...	The well again.	A glass of Longjing tea. Cost me 80 yuan...	One pound of leaves: 1800 yuan. It's expensive...	The Leifeng pagoda.
Next stop on my journey, Suzhou. I arrived...	I went to see the gardens. This is the Garden of the...	It's the smallest one, but also the most interesting one...	After walking around in an area of maybe 50x50 meters for...
		They had a gallery of Bonzai trees.	And even bonzai mountains!
	Suzhou is famous for it's cannals, and is often described...	Here I visited another garden.		One of the optical effect they played with here was to...
By putting a bamboo forrest behind such a grid, they...			I think a photo doesn't make it justice, but there was a...	Like a living picture on the wall.
		Out in town, one of the cannals.	Gondolas
Chinese logic and work safety co-operates.	Next stop was Nanjing. I stayed there a few days,...	In the mean time, I visited the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum,...		It just keeps going up and up...
Sometimes I were kind of wondering where it went, because...	Stairway to heaven?	This is Linda, one of the owners of the hostel I was...	I think I see something!	This is a cauldron that was damaged during the Japanese...
Closeup of the damage.	The mausoleum			The sarcophagus of Sun Yat-sen.
A statue of him.	This is the Nanjing city wall. It was wide enough to...		Linda on the wall with diamonds.	The city.
Inscribes names in the brickwork.	Each brick maker was responsible for his work, so they...			The hostel chef made some really aweseome dishes. He...
While waiting for my tickets, I had a lot of time, so I...			Finally, I got my tickets and could head off to Xi'an, in...
This is the bell tower of Xi'an.	And this is the bell.	Over there to ther right is the drum tower. These...		The inside of the city wall of Xi'an. I'm on my way to...
There they are.	The complex was massive.	Horsies!
At the sign with the "6" on it to the right is the point...
		This is where they assemble the shards of the...		Horsies!
These guys were made in real-life size, and they are all...		A dug out pit of smashed warriors.	Some of them lost their heads...
I think this must be a stable...	Here's an archer (sans bow) Notice the fine detail.	Here's an infantryman. Each soldier have his...	This is a higherranking officer.	A cavalryman and his horse. The horse has a height of...
	Notice the fine details.	A standing archer. They don't have any bows because...	A dagger-axe, or "ge". The shape of the character "ge" (...	It came in various vrieties. The Chinese found that...
	An old Chinese sword	On the way back, it had started to rain again. Moist...		A watch tower on the city wall of Xi'an. I waited for...
This is Oddjob from the Red Lantern hostel in Beijing,...	And, home again in Sweden, a view of the sea outside my...

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