I put up nearly 400 pictures yesterday from the last two weekends. Last weekend we went to a Qianshan "mountains" near Anshan, about 35min south of Liaoyang. In my opinion they are very big hills at best but they are very sudden. The land here is pretty flat and then all of a sudden bam, mountains. Also in Anshan we went to see the temple where they have the world's largest Buddha carved from a single piece of Jade, they even have the plaque from Guiness to prove it. This weekend we went to the city of Shenyang, about an hour and a half north of Liaoyang. In Shenyang there is an old Imperial palace, also called the Mukden Palace, built in the 1625. It served as the home of the the first three Qing emperors lived there from 1625 to 1644. After 1644 the home of the emporer moved back to the forbidden city in Beijing. After the palace we went to a highly recommended "international flower expo" which is code for botanical gardens. What a tremendous dissapointment that was. They had different styles of "international gardens" which mostly consisted of the same 4 or 5 types of plants with very cheap rip-offs of the architecture from the target country. I haven't labeled all of the pictures with titles and descriptions yet, but feel free to look through all of them anyway. Some pretty interesting stuff in there.
Work is going much better now, we are still a little behind but the contractors seem to have gotten things all figured out now. As long as things go smoothly from here on out it seems like we might be able to leave sometime in mid-July.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/
No comments:
Post a Comment