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| Jing'an Temple,Shanghai-Buddhist |
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| The Great Mosque-not well signposted,took an hour wandering around side streets to find.Xi'an has a significant Muslim population and have a Chinese looking mosque. |
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| Prayer area |
Friday, 4 February 2011
Chinese Temples
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Buildings of Shanghai(Bund Area)
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| Pearl Tower in Pudong |
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| Pudong(opposite the Bund) |
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| Bund Observatory 1907 |
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| Old(1930) and new(2000) |
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| Union Insurance(1922) |
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| Union Insurance |
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| View from top of building towards Pudong from the Restaurant "No3 the Bund" |
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| The prom on river side |
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| Shanghai Club built 1910 and Union Insurance built 1922(Renaissance design) |
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| HKSB built 1923 next Custom House built 1927 both in Neo Classic style |
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| Buddhist Monks |
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| Chinese Merchants Steamsmship(1901) |
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| What a lot of bull |
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| Art Deco(1948) |
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| Nishin Navigating Company(1925) also M on the Bund |
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| Bank of China(1937) design Moderism |
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| Revolutionary Statue |
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| Broadway Mansions(1934) -cubist and Russian embassy on Suzhou Creek. Behind these buildings was the US Concession |
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Shanghai Expo 2010
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| Logo of 2010 Shanghai Expo |
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| Warning for lines, could be 9 hours |
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| Tired waiting |
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| Tango area in above pavilion |
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| Malaysia |
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| Worker |
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| Netherlands |
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| South Africa |
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| Norway |
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| UK |
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| Seeds |
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| Seeds |
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| Entrance,You beat the 2 hour line if you had a UK passport |
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| Evening all! |
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| North Korea |
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| The two "empires of evil" were next to each other |
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| Internal transport |
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| Made of basketwork |
Clyde2SD
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| MV Keewhit leaving Hunderston 14/2/11 |
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| MV Keewhit bound for Belfast |
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| Keewhit alongside Voge Prosperity at Hunterston |
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| HMS Blyth 17/1/11 |
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| SD Oronsay 13/1/11 |
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