The thing is, most of this picture are kinda silly and sub par because i was shooting them as an after thought, mostly i was using the holga so these are kind of just for documentation...so no judgment. This was at the lama temple...i know this is totally politically incorrect to say in china but i realllyy wanna go to tibet now...and will..someday. This place was just goregeous, and prince sized city filled with Buddhas and the largest figure in the world carved from one peice of sandal wood into a lama...holy cow it was ginormous. And all these temples...glittery gold and green and red, and in front, throngs of people gathering burning incense for the new year and good wishes, and bowing. Buddhism is cool. I left with ash all over me, this was the highlight of the day.
hmm, not sure, we saw so much today, this is another Buddhist temple, its hard to pick just one. I ended up meeting these two really nice gay boys from LA on the tour, and hanging out with them later, also with nikki, my cousins roommate from college who is studying mandarin in Tanjing to further her Chinese roots. All really cool people, especially Mike and Mike, hehe, from LA who are the sweetest couple in the world. Mike works for an animation company out here, and his boss got drunk and bought us all shots, then we talked about Atlanta for a while, and boston, and all of our respective and various cities.
Another part of a princes palace, in a corridor, in some really good morning light. Nothing too special, just some pretty arches. Architecture Architecture Architecture, mmmmmm. Mike Mike Nikki and I left the bar we were at to find some dancing, and witnessed a street fight where a guy knocked out. Ive seen some fights before but this one was pretty brutal, kinda effed if ya know what i mean, the weird thing these guys were friends, so as soon as the guy was knocked out the other one ran over to make sure he was breathing. Yeesh, wherever that guy is, he is in a significant amount of pain. Tough cookies these Chinese, gotta say i felt like i got smacked watching it.
Mmmm Panders. Did you know there are like a thousand something living pandas? They are endangered because they kill each other off...crazy huh, kind of relevant to my last story, anyways, these are babies so no need to worry. Super cute, every bit as fat and lazy as you would imagine.
The temple of heaven. Gotta love all these palaces. So after we left the bar, we went to get some street food, which is really good because its just vegetables and meat on a stick, grilled in front of you. I dont know what the meat is that i was eating, but it was speculated that it was tendon from some animal, which tastes, just about how you would imagine, really chewy and not too much taste save for the crazy amount and degree of spicy that was slathered all over it. yow! I can add that to the list of weird things ive eaten...I also got a corn on the cob. Alright i have to go hike the great wall...i finish this later.
The temples of heaven. everything is sacred here.
This rock supports this pagoda, and is pretty, and is imported and expnesive..that is all.
The entrance to the forbidden city, just near tian'anmen square. Commies, ps, that square is huge! and controversial, meh, it was interesting, at least i can check that off my list of things to do in life now.
Just a close up of the gorgeous colors on all these things, ahh royalty, it must be nice to live in art.
Ohh valentines day, dont get me started. basically i felt realllly alone, more alone than usual because it was the first day of a family holiday (chinese new year) and valentines day, and im alone in a place where i cant speak the langauge. So...what do you do in this situation? you. go. shopping. I bought some hot new red nikes which i will post later, and a great dress. I got dolled up and went to dinner, this is my desert, vanilla rose ice cream. I was of course, very drunk when i took this picture as everyone in the restaurant was a couple and then the one closest to me got engaged to Leann rimes crooning "how do i live without you" with a follow up by gabriella from high school musical singing "the veiw' these two songs and a few others of similar quality and content were on a loop. oh valentines day. As sad as this day sounds for me, i actually had a lot of fun. I love you self. Thats whats important right?
I snapped this on the way to the airport to beijing, of pudong, i love this area i just miss being closer to puxi so i can get to my freinds easier, but still, at least ive got the better buildings on my side of the river.
Ill post about the great wall later..
Gan Bei!
j
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