• China – Family Holiday Dec 2002

    Date: 2012.01.23 | Category: Chinese Wall Pictures | Tags: ,,,

    Clips of videos and pics taken and processed 9 years ago. Most are of my sisters, nieces and nephew. As usual, I don’t think there’s any of me (sigh!). Some memorable moments: 1. Falling on the frozen lake at the Summer Palace and breaking my tail bone 2. A Japanese tourist making a strange request to have a photograph taken with my beautiful nieces. 3. Drinking hot tea with my niece Adillah at a small cosy tea shop (she had a migraine – caffeine withdrawal) while the rest of the family waited for us at another spot due to miscommunication. I don’t remember why I used an Arabic background music (Ron Goodwin) for this montage. The video shots were taken with my Panasonic video camera and still shots with Kodak digital camera.

    Preview of Pdjw’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Beijing, China Entry Title: “The Forbidden City” Entry: “Today was the trip to the Forbidden City. Outside the wall of our condo complex , we took a few pictures of the wall carving featuring space science. We took a bus to Tian An Men Square and toured the Square first. Another hot and humid day! The Square was decorated, almost ready for the Olympic games. Themed structures formed by flower pots were positioned at several spots throughout the Square, most of them were still being worked on by workers under the steaming heat. The sky was gray and looked smoky. Once in a while there was a little breeze, warm and sticky but even that would make us feel good. We walked toward the Tian An Men gate, stood under the famous Mao portrait, then proceeded through the gate. Inside the large courtyard behind the gate, there were souvenir stores on both sides of the walkway. We had to stop to buy bottled water or ice-cream often because the heat made you dehydrated fast. Once we were inside the ticketed gate of the Forbidden City, we started walking on the walkway paved with the stone slabs that turned hot in the breeze-less scorching heat. By the time we reached the last hall of the first group of three halls, (Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Medium Harmony, and Hall of Preserved Harmony, we were …
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