First lunch: Chris learns to eat with chopsticks
Do you know where you are going?
Parking fee 1p per minute?
All licensed in Beijing
Temples in the Forbidden City
Bright chinese temple colours
A beautiful day for hiking the Great Wall
The country has 40,000 km of wall, a maze of bits and pieces
We feel like ancient sentinels
50 km view and no tourist in sight
Chinese "Hefezopf" in every bakery - I feel at home :)
If we only knew how to eat it with chopsticks...
Towards the Temple of Heaven
Beijing gets organised - this sight becomes ever rarer
The most common street game
Do you need your bike fixed?
Cocktail hour at lake in Beijing
Yunnan cuisine: plenty of yummy and agreeable food
Made of copper
The Golden Temple park in Kunming
Hong Ta: 5-year matured red tea and ceremony in the tea trading quarter
The Stone Forest
Yunnan is a province with great variety of climate, landscape and peoples
We are nearly on the tropic of cancer, and 1800 m high
You ought to know what you are getting into...
Kunming has hundreds of nice and simple eateries
and thousands of bikes
Hot Pot in reverese role: I am being eaten alive in the forest at Anning Hot Springs
Rice plains near Lijiang
Lijiang Old Town is a UNESCO world heritage site
Some heritage is of very practical use
Do you want fries with your chili powder?
Your local 4-star eatery
No comment
Why need fries when you can have just chili?
The whole Old Town looks like this
One more hour, and Lijiang will turn into the biggest outdoor night club, bar & restaurant on the planet
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain towers at 5548m above Lijiang's Black Dragon Pool
Old and young people always happily greet the foreigners
Loads of dressed up minorities in Yunnan
Temples are always colourful
But how did it grow?
Next to the spring of the Yu river
Lijiang at night
Naxi ladies
Men at work
Yours, Babelfish
Next to our hotel
Slates bearing your name for good luck
The Tiger Leaping Gorge
China's biggest and deepest canyon
A toilet with a flushing soundscape (right at the roaring Yangste river)
Our nice Tibetan Hotel in Zhongdian
Songzanlin: A working Buddhist monastery
Yak butter candles
Damaged in the later 20th century, reconstruction is well under way
The biggest prayer hall seats 1000 monks
Over 700 monks live and work here. Life in Tibet is all about merit.
The prayer mills stand still: we can hear a chorus behind some doors
There is something special about the Tibetan wind at 3200 m altitude
The monastery hill is a little town of its own
Zhongdian farmers' market: vegetables and spices abound
Just like your butcher at home
If only the bus could run on coke, it would be on time...
A tea house with a view
Prayer flags on the temple hill
Come on in - English menu
Your local laundry service
At the foothills of the Himalaya: Police of ice
Watch them getting to the traffic lights...
A sunny morning in Shanghai
Shanghai roads lead everywhere
Old Xintiandi in Shanghai centre
Famous Shanghai dumplings: top steamed, bottom deep-fried
Shop after shop
Now they've bulldozered my house where should I put my laundry...?
The pet market sells crickets and a lot of stuff you won't imagine
They will soon move to a big apartment block
The bottleopener in the background is the highest building in the world
The Sky Bar in the 47th floor at the Radisson: good music & cocktails
In Zhujiajiao: View from the biggest bridge in the Yangtse delta
The Oriental Pearl TV Tower started the Pudong architecture craze in the 90s
The Pudong skyline includes three buildings more than 400 m tall
Ride to the airport at 430 kph: the first Maglev runs after 35 years of showcasing in Germany