Southeast Aisa 2007- Scenery

The steel building that looks like a
bunch of rubber bands intertwined
is the Crow's Nest, which is where the
2008 Olympics will be held in Beijing.
This was my view outside my hotel
window. We stayed in this hotel when we
first arrived in Beijing & just before heading
home.

The sky just before the 2nd Typhoon.

The path from the camp to the grocery

store & Dico's.

We swam here with our students

3 times. It was over 100 degree's

outside & the water was the same,

so it was not very refreshing.

This was the camp we stayed at for

our 3 weeks with the students.

These are the dorms where we all slept.

This was a statue that some of the
people worship. They have

several gods. They believe the red
keeps the wood from burning &
black will keep water out.

They have many superstitions.

This is a special rock. The

Emporers would send their armies down,

dig trenches along the way, fill the trenches

with water, wait for it to freeze & then

bring a rock like this across the ice. They

thought it was beautiful.








This is the Forbidden City. It held the

most amount of Emporers.

The rock above is in the Forbidden City.











A temple at the Great Wall. Inside are

gods the people worship.












I took this from the top of the first

tower we climbed up. As you can

see, parts of the Wall are VERY steep!

There were times I would not let go

of the railing, as I felt like I would just

topple over if I did.








This was a manmade island in the

Summer Palace. The Summer Palace

is the largest, best kept Imperial Garden's

in the world. It consists of a manmade

lake with islands all throughout it. You take

boats to get from island to island.








Behind the water flowers you can

see some of the boats used to get

around the Summer Palace.

This was at the Acrobatic

Theatre. We went to this our last

full day in Beijing. It was good, but

we were so exhausted that half the

team fell asleep.