Travel and Landscape Photography blog
The new district of Pudong in Shanghai, is a spectacular place to walk around in the evening. I like to wander down to the park on the shore line of the Huangpu River. With the skyscrapers and towers of Pudong behind you, you can look out across the river to the old part of Shanghai, known as the Bund. At night, the lighting on the buildings is spectacular.
A common feature of Chinese garden walkways and bridges is to incorporate a zig-zag into the path. Apparently, this defeats evil spirits who can’t turn corners so the zig-zag prevents them form following you. This walkway in in Yuyuan Gardens in Shanghai, China.
No trip to Beijing, or in deed to China, would be complete without visiting the Great Wall. I went there in the summer of 2006. One thing that took me by surprise was the steepness of the climb. You see the pictures of the wall running across the mountain tops but what you forget is that they are mountain tops. To follow the wall from peak to peak you must go up and down the mountains. These can be precipitous.