Saturday, December 18, 2010

Final shots of Beijing and Great Wall. The Forbidden City.

This is what small children wear. They go wherever they want to. This dog better watch out. No but sniffing occurred here.


The Forbidden City, Beijing, China.









Don Johanson, anthropologist and discoverer of Australopithecus afarensis, commonly known as "Lucy."

Monday, December 13, 2010

The Great Wall of China

We had a beautiful day on the Great Wall. It was a 2 hour drive from our hotel in Beijing.









Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Temple of Heaven, Beijing, China

Inside the Temple of Heaven



Judy & Pierre playing badminton at the temple of heaven.


A group of locals playing music.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Final images from Cambodia

These are some images from the Raffles Hotel that we stayed at in Siem Reap. On our final night, we had a dinner by the pool that included cuisine from multiple Asian countries. It began with a cocktail hour followed by a slide show presented by our National Geographic photographer. It included live Cambodian music and dancing. Magical!







Life-sized ice sculpture.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Tonle Sap "the Great Lake"

The floating villages, Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia
Tonle Sap is about an hour south of Angkor. It is home to a large population (possibly millions) of illegal immigrants from Vietnam.

The people do everything on the water. They have fish farms, pig pens and crocodile pens, to name a few.


People live their daily lives on the water. While our boat was moving through the water at a moderately fast speed, a small boat like these, that had a motor, pulled-up along side, a girl jumped onto the boat with a selection of soda, water and beer. I bought two from her, she jumped back onto her boat and they sped off to the next tour boat.

Unfortuately, begging is a large part of life here. Children use their pet snakes to coerce tourists to give them money in return for photographs.

He also jumped onto our boat, but without the snake.

Inspecting their fishing nets.



More begging.




A young woman washing her hair.