the hanging monastery. amazing history to this.

terracotta soldiers of Xian

terracotta soldiers in Xian

across the bay is the "new territories" of hong kong, but not city hong kong-
rugged lesser lived in/known land. to get to real hong kong, it takes just under an hour by expensive ferry, or the cheap, but long/arduous journey by combo of bus, taxi, subway.

some of shenzhen

the great wall wound its way through 1/2 the park. pretty cool

i can say w/ certainty: the potola palace in Tibet.

largest buddha in the world

i have no idea what most of these really are. i wasn't gonna write everything down!

all at "Splendid China", a theme park like "windows of the world" (lots of pics of that earlier)
shows famous places, model-sized so you can "see china in a day"
some think it's cheesy. i like it.

called the "avenue of the stars"