China Travel Photos from Durango CO Photographer

I have finally finished beautifying all the images from our China trip.

The first collage shows the shopping area of Beijing and of course McDonalds is there.  Then there are the live scorpions which they will fry up for you to enjoy as a treat (yuck).  Love some of the vehicles they drive around in.   The red building was pretty cool and it depicts old time Chinese architecture.  The turtle statue is one of the places where locals put pieces of paper with prayers on them.

Then there is the Panda Bear.  They are so darned cute, but I don’t think they are very happy.  They seem to sit around and eat bamboo all day – I’m sure they move around in the wild more than caged up like this.

The next image is of Ken and I on the Great Wall of China, and the final one is me running the half marathon on the Great Wall.

It was an amazing experience – so if you will be celebrating your 20th Wedding Anniversary, this is the place to go because the suggested gift for the 20th year is china, and this beats getting your spouse a bunch of plates.

 

Beijing China, Local food, Transportation, Cool Building, and Prayer Statue

Panda Bear

Ken and I on the Great Wall of China

Running the 1/2 Marathon on the Great Wall of China

Beijing China by Durango Photographer

I’ve finally gotten back to working on the photographs that I took during our trip to Beijing back in May 2014.  We took this trip for our 20th Wedding Anniversary, and in case you missed the irony of this, here’s a little fun detail.  I was looking up the suggested wedding gifts for the different anniversaries.  Well, the gift for the 20th is china, and this was a year after we started planning this trip.  Of course, when I told my hubby this, he said “yeah, I knew that” (no, he didn’t).

The first set of images are from the Chinese Cloisonne Factory.  This is fascinating because they take the enamel vases (or other items) and glue tiny bits of wire on them to make a sort of 3d image (flowers, etc) – this is seen in the first photo.  Then they hand paint these delicate little wires and fill them in with different paint colors.  I purchased a beautiful bracelet  made this way and I just love it.

The second set of images are Chinese acrobats that performed during a show we went to see (the stage lighting was hard to photograph).  They were amazing – strong and talented.

The third set of images are from a park we visited.  All of these different things were going on in different sections of the park.  There were people sitting around playing cards and (chinese?) checkers, dancing in costumes, playing instruments, and playing with toys.  You will notice that almost all of these people are older, retired folks having lots of fun!

You can click on these images to make them larger.

Chinese Cloisonne Painting

Chinese Acrobats

Chinese Park

More will be coming later.  Thanks for viewing and feel free to comment.

by Karen Skelly

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