Hilary's Places

Travel Images by Hilary Hopkins

April 25 - May 25 2005 / China: The New, The Old

The Yangtze, Beijing, Xian--and the Far, Far West
  • A load of thatching on the Yangtze--note man and child on top!
  • Passing--carefully--through a lock of the 3 Gorges Dam
  • the daunting face of a lock gate at the 3 Gorges Dam
  • cultivating right down to the edge of the Yangtze--now doubtless under water
  • the Forbidden City on May Day
  • red rooflines at the Forbidden City
  • climbing the Great Wall at SimataI
  • terra-cotta horses at Xian
  • young monks at play in Xining
  • Muslim men listening to instruction in their faith
  • climbing and sliding on the dunes near Mogao
  • sheep heads for sale
  • pomegranate juice stall at the Kashgar market
  • Kashgar neighborhood boys