Photos tagged as sightseeing

City walls 1

• Date: 3 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing xi'an
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Bell Tower at night

• Date: 2 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Location: Xi'an, China
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Weird bride

Reminds me of a Tim Burton classic...

• Date: 2 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Location: Xi'an, China
• Tags: people sightseeing
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Xi'an Street snacks 1

Some sort of sweet glutinous rice thing

• Date: 1 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Location: Xi'an, China
• Tags: food sightseeing xi'an
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Shrine to Mao

This was the first sign I saw that reminded me I was living in a communist country!

• Date: 1 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing communism
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Temple of Eight Immortals

Taoist temple supposedly built on the site of an ancient wine shop. Those crafty monks! :O

• Date: 1 October 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: temple sightseeing
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Sunset on Tai Shan

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: landscapes sightseeing
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Small shrine on Tai Shan

Saw this one as I was coming down...perhaps it's for those who can't reach the top/don't want to climb in the dark?!?

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing spirituality
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Nice scenery on the way down Tai Shan

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: landscapes sightseeing
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Down we go!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing
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Summit scenery 3

Doesn't do the actual views justice (again)!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: landscapes sightseeing
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Summit scenery 2

Doesn't do the actual views justice!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: landscapes sightseeing
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Summit scenery 1

Doesn't do the actual views justice!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: landscapes sightseeing
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Attaching my red armband with one kuai!

kuai = yuan for you uninitiated folk.

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: temple sightseeing spirituality
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Jade Emperor Temple

Lots of incense burning, praying and...padlocks?

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: temple sightseeing spirituality
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Lots more calligraphy on stone

...written by successive emperors who have climbed (been carried) up Tai Shan.

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing calligraphy
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Up we go again!

Climbing more stairs from what we had previously thought was the 'summit'

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing
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Sky road

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
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Burning my incense

Alas, as soon as I unwrapped the incense sticks, they started crumbling and breaking apart so...I kinda unceremoniously just threw them into the fire. Er, I still get my good luck right?

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing spirituality
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Someone who thinks they are a joker

This was more than half-way up the blommin mountain!!!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sign sightseeing joke
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View on the way up Tai Shan

Here come the tourists/pilgrims!

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: people sightseeing
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Man carrying food supplies up Tai Shan

Thus food gets pricier as you go up...though maybe it's a parabolic curve because there's a cable car that goes to the summit??? HMMM.

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: people sightseeing
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Red calligraphy on stone

...WOW...I can actually read all the (big) words! (quiet there fluent Chinese speaker, I know that they're all the 'easy' words :O).

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing mandarin
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Red armbands on a tree

...when/where are you supposed to hang these up? Any old tree? (My favourite personal theory is where they could go no further? Thus I was determined to hang my red armband only once I reached the summit...!)

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Tags: sightseeing spirituality
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Shop selling religious trinkets and incense sticks...

...plus all manner of other spiritual stuff.

• Date: 23 September 2010
• Photographer: EddieBlock: gallery
• Location: Tai'an, China
• Tags: sightseeing spirituality
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