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Travel Pictures - CHINA - 1992 |
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All images © Ron Miller |
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Everyone is "one of the people" on this Chinese ferry -
near Guangzhou,
China
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A wonderful town for travelers, but don't tell the Communists! -
Xi Jie
Street; Yangshuo,
China
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The majestic landscape of southern China -
Yangshuo, China
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Flooded streets and rice paddies following a downpour -
Yangshuo, China
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Southern China's amazing contrast of precipitous pinnacles and
pancake-flat rice paddies -
Yangshuo, China |
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Me standing on the summit of Moon Hill -
near Yangshuo, China
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Lovely young peasant who "convinced" me to
enter the rice paddies (the pinnacle with the crescent-shaped hole is Moon
Hill) -
Moon Hill, China |
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Pulling up every last seedling (look at the grin beaming
from the
young lady) -
Moon Hill, China |
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Is this buffalo a pet on a leash or an oriental lawn mower?
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near Yangshuo, China |
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The wide boulevards of a typical planned Chinese city -
Liuzhou, China
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I think these Chinese gawkers would have stood and
stared at the Europeans forever -
Liuzhou, China |
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A city that could use a good scrubbing -
Chongqing, China
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An inviting place to travel by bike -
Chengdu, China
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Dafo; the world's largest Buddha -
Leshan, China
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From the feet of the mighty Dafo -
Leshan, China
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Looking down on the town of Leshan from eye level -
Leshan, China
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The 10,100 foot summit of Emeishan is one of China's main pilgrimage sites,
and even the elite make their way (on the shoulders of others) to the summit -
near Leshan, China
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Travelers draw a crowd even when shooting pool -
Songpan, China
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Me with a Muslim teacher and his students -
near Songpan, China
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Are the three men at right, laughing with me or at me? -
Jiuzhaigou N.P.,
China
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Me and my friends modeling our "hiking attire" -
Jiuzhaigou N.P.,
China
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While unable to move forward due to impassable roads, I spent a couple of
days in this village -
near Songpan, China
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Gold fever; A miner showing me the results of his successful panning -
near
Songpan, China
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Sheep herders I "trespassed" upon in communist China -
near
Songpan, China |
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Bottomed out on top of the world -
Tibetan Plateau, China |
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Many Tibetans pilgrimage to this monastery in Central China -
Labrang Monastery; Xiahe, China
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Devout Buddhists gaining karma -
Labrang Monastery; Xiahe, China
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The main temple - Labrang Monastery; Xiahe, China
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Devout pilgrims spinning the series of prayer wheels -
Xiahe, China
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Pilgrims circumnavigating the entire monastery; notice the child's
"economy" diaper -
Labrang Monastery; Xiahe, China
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Tibetan Cowboy -
near Songpan, China |
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The main tourist area of the Great Wall of China -
Badaling, China
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Tourists add color and scale to the Great Wall -
Badaling, China
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It is challenging enough to walk along this wall, imagine trying to build
it! -
Badaling, China
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The wall has an ancient feel, especially where it is crumbling and overgrown
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near Badaling, China
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This photo captures only half of this enormous public square -
Tiananmen Square; Beijing, China
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Portrait of a monster - Tiananmen Square; Beijing, China
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Yak at the entrance to the Forbidden City -
Beijing, China
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Picture taking at Tiananmen Square -
Beijing, China
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Me turning heads in the capital city -
Beijing, China |
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Bill secures his bike and ties a ribbon to the handlebar so that he can
later find it among the ocean of bikes -
Beijing, China
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The former summer resort for the Chinese royalty as seen on a hazy summer
day -
The Summer Palace; Beijing, China
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This capitalist invasion was found just to the "right" of Mao's portrait -
Beijing, China
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May I help you? -
Beijing, China
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Once the youngsters get a taste for the Happy Meal, it's all over for the
Communists -
Beijing, China |
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Me and clandestine capitalist agent -
Beijing, China
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