Lama Temple, Hutongs and Kung Fu

This morning we visited the Lama Temple here in Beijing. It is a nice temple with an enormous amount of buddahs and people worshipping them by burning a huge amount of incense sticks. By saying a huge amount I really mean a HUGE amount. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if 95% of the pollution here in Beijing is caused by it.

After visiting this temple we went for a walk through the hutongs. These old and authentic small and narrow streets have a great atmosphere. I really enjoy walking through them and I hope I will have some more time for making portraits of the people living in them. But time is short and we leave very early this Saturday to Shanghai.

In the evening we went to a Kung Fu show called The Legend of Kung Fu. It was a nice and entertaining show which was a bit in between ballet and Kung Fu. But unfortiunately “sir, no photo no photo, thank you, no photo”…

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  1. Ellen September 18th, 2008 09:45

    Beautiful pictures, I’m jealous already! Tuscany was also very nice though, a little less exotic maybe.

    Getting used to working again proves to be difficult, but I have enough to do, even without my supervisor :-P .

    The first MR experiment went surprisingly well, technically spoken. I still have to convert the data though…

    Enjoy your holidays & see you in October!

    Ellen.

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