I recently made a new friend here in Shenzhen who is from Xian and I was inspired to finally post some pictures I have from there. Like so many cities in China, Xi'an is very beautiful, has some great food, and some very interesting places to see. One of the most famous attractions of Xi'an are the terracotta warriors. I do have many more photos and some videos that I will try to post later, but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy these.

During the Spring Festival this year, I went on an amazing journey down the Silk Road; mostly to see if it is a journey I could do again to see the Total Solar Eclipse taking place in August, 2008, but also to finally see many of the sites I have heard about for so long.

While returning from a journey down the Silk Road, I stopped at the Great Wall of China at Jiayuguan. Although it was recently restored, and not quite the old beat down wall you would expect from something almost 500 years old, it was still an amazing place to visit. And where else are you going to get to see a part of the Great Wall and be the only one there! Granted, that was mostly because I was there in the Winter.

I noticed that I have not mentioned anything in my blog about Chairman Mao Zedong yet so I decided to share with you a picture I took of the home he grew up in. For those of you that do not know who he is, he is the founder of the People's Republic of China and one of the original members of the Chinese Communist Party. I am not going to go into any more detail about him here as you can find all the information you want about him online, however...

Here is a picture of the Great Wall of China at Simatai outside of Beijing. It is a panorama picture made from various pictures taken from the parking lot...

Here is a quick video shot walking mainly down Fuxing Lu in the old city of Dali, in Yunnan Province, China.

Here is a short video clip taken from the top of Dragon Bridge on the Yulong River in Yangshuo, China. For more pictures from here, click here.

Due to popular demand, I decided to post a short video clip of a view of the world famous Bund in Shanghai taken from Pearl park in the new Pudong side of the Huangpu River, or Huangpu Jiang as it is known in Chinese. Shanghai, like any major city, is huge; not only in size but also in population reaching almost 10 million, so keep a look out for more videos from this city, its people and places. I will be returning here, what many call the Paris of the East and a city which is set to become a major global financial center, in March as well so I will have plenty to show you. As you can tell from this video clip, there is not much Chinese architecture here. In fact, all you really see on this strip of coastline are remanents of China's colonial rule and the days of British and French control in China trade and finance.