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The number one attraction is the Great Wall of China. This is where the Great Wall begins, near Dandong, near the North Korean border. From the wall, you can see the Yalu River [1 ], and then the lush plains of North Korea, with watch towers peppered on the Korean side.
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We visited the Wall in two places (Dandong and Badaling), and it's usually loaded with domestic tourists.
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Go a bit further though, and you're on your own.
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My friend Ammar climbing the wall.
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A girl and a butterfly.
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The Wall in Dandong.
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Lin Ziqi, a girl I met, on the Wall in Dandong.
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The Wall in Badaling.
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The Beijing-Dandong train.
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Somewhere near Tianjin.
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No Dangerous Articles.
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Beijing Underground Station. We noticed people working there had nametags - with no names on them, just numbers.
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Tiananmen Square.
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The square is tightly controlled and lots of police are present.
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Main auditorium in the Great Hall of the People.
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Tiananmen Gate with a Chairman Mao portrait on it.
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Chinese tourists.
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Crowd control and security to enter an underground station.
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Hutong, or narrow alley. This type of neighbourhoods are being demolished now.
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Gate.
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Ammar in a romantic setting.
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Dance.
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Beijing at night.
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Plane parked in a shop. This is how congested Beijing is.
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The delicious night market.
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The delicious night market...
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The delicious night market...?
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Chinese lantern.
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Good luck charms (wish cards?) in a temple.
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Emperor.
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They had a shopping centre dedicated to roasted duck. We went on a Great Wall tour, instead they took us there... No one could speak English. When I walked off to see a temple, the tour just left us there, in the middle of nowhere, outside of Beijing.
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Maitreya, made of a fruit called ren shen guo.
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Do not leap, do not span.
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This is a legitimate temple, not something built for domestic tourists to sell hyper-expensive sculptures in.
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Through the gate.
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Lion in the Forbidden City.
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Girl playing in the Forbidden City.
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In a museum in the Forbidden City.
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Cauldrons originally with water to douse fires.
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"Watch inlaid on the copper steamer model." This is one of the gifts from foreign monarchs and representatives.
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Chinese workers in the Forbidden City.
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Chinese dragon.
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Let's relax in the park... Oh.
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Chinese girl in the park.
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Dragon in the Baiyun Taoist Temple, also known as the White Cloud Temple.
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Giant incense burner in the temple. I'm a big fan of incense, but Chinese incense hardly even smells!
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Woman in the White Cloud Temple.
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Temple roofs.
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Monk playing the guqin.
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Chinese Man near the temple.
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Monk.
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It's just my neighbour, Totoro.
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A game of Chinese checkers - or Chinese chess, as someone has pointed out to me.
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Chinese girl.
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Playing cards.
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Temple of Heaven.
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Disrupt God's plans by eating Noah's Ark.
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Chinese girls.
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Somewhat unusual phallic decoration in a Chinese mosque, the Niujie Mosque.
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The Niujie Mosque.
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Prayer hall in the Niujie Mosque.
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Pakistani visitor in the Niujie Mosque.
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Chinese Muslim man.
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Block of flats.
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Dragon fish bell in the Fayuan Temple.
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Round gate in the Fayuan Temple.
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Round window in the Fayuan Temple.
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Thank you for checking out the gallery.
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