First sight of Shanghai, the largest city in China with around 24mio populationPreparing for the huge Chinese New Year festivalOften, the signs are not clearly to defining, what’s allowed and what’s not…At the riverside of Huangpu RiverAt the top of the Shanghai Tower (632m, observatory at 561m), looking down to the famous “Bottle Opener” and a part of the cityArriving in Xi’an, a smaller city of around 6mio people, in the Shaanxi ProvinceNot many cars in the center, but a lot of mopeds, cycles and other smaller vehiclesA tower of the mighty city walls of Xi’an, which surround the city on 14km lengthIn the huge colourful garden of Xi’an, where all flowers and trees are made of illuminated plasticA small group of Terracotta Warriors, some of them headlessIn the district in which a lot of paper is sold for the famous art of chinese calligraphyAt the newly built station for high-speed trains in Xi’an. A lot of buildings for thousands of people are just built for later.Hot Pot – the famous food in the Sichuan Province, here in the center of ChengduView over the city of ChengduAt the Giant Panda Sanctuary in ChengduThe famous and touristy old town of ChengduAnother huge, but not oversized, station of the Chinese high-speed railway.The pagodas “Sun” and “Moon” in the picturesque city of GuilinThe last meters of the 30min cable car ride, which is in a horrible condition and the responsible helpers were standing there smoking and spitting. Well, that was fun!On the top of the highest mountain around GuilinThe buddhist Path of WisdonA fountain with crazy statues of all Chinese animal zodiacsAt the tourist market, we nearly bought some snakes and centipedesHard work on the countrysideBeatutiful vegetables on the local market……as well as all sorts of meatOn the Li River with a small bamboo canoeOverseeing the tourist activities in YangshouContrast between the quiet countryside, …… and the noisy and huge station of Guangzhou. From here our train led us over the border to:Hong KongView from the ferry, to the newly built ICC towerartistic drumming performance of young women in Hong KongDystopic scenes in the deep urban canyons on the Kowloon SideSymphony of LightsAt the dried fish marketView from the Victoria Peak on to the huge towers of Hong Kong
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