Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Hong Kong



                 An outdoor fish market on the street







                         interesting sign
          Old buildings
   new buildings  there were a lot of interesting designs which you will see

    
                     the sky line of Hong Kong
           This sign says Wi-Fi.   It is a small phone booth
           No motorcycles allowed to fly over cars

                  Happy (dead) Fish
              Had lunch here.  It was very good.
                     Old and new.  Bamboo scaffolding all around
                           interesting building


     interesting building    Those are holes in the buildings
                    Tall and thin
                 they mean business here
                Different here than in California
                   A place to rest
                          

                           interesting building

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Yangtze River

we are on the Yangtze River and this is a view of a mountain called the dragon mountain 

 a view of the river

another view from the ship 

standing in front of the ship it was windy

oh oh   I was ok

 the clouds and the mountains

this is a zoom of a pagoda that is in the last picture

an interesting photo looking down the river.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A Monastery




 just walking up street taking photos 




people in a distance standing on rocks with their prayer flag

 just walking up street taking photos 

we went here also  the color and lines on the mountain are prayer flags



Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Flying into Lhasa and Potala Palace








         These are photos from the airplane flying toward Tibet.  You can see the mountains sticking out from the clouds



                  Unbelievable sight


at Lhasa airport 



            view from hotel window

                   information

           old photo that was in restaurant  
             Potala Palace




                      walking toward top
View of Lhasa from Potala Place