Tham's pick of piccies

Right here are my picks of some photos which hopefully the Chinese government won't ban through the firewall.

Handle on a vat in the Forbidden City which they used to boil people. No no true.

This is a pic of a pic of Mr Mao.

In most Chinese cities they have a Bell Tower (which has bells) and a Drum Tower (which has drums). This one is in Xian and it's real swell!

They love topiary in China, can't you tell? It's so good I can't even tell what these two figures are.

This is the farmer man who discovered the terracotta soldiers whilst digging for a well. He doesn't like being photographed and is now signing books (after being taught how to write his name which took 3 years). What a cheek!

In the Eastern gate of the wall of Xian (the city is surrounded by a wall which is around 2000 years old give or take), there were men 'assigned' to wear ye olde Chinoise costumes.

We come from outer space... In China we do! This is us from a pedi cab. We paid 10 RMB (probably 70pence or near enough) to be cycled by a man for about 15 mins in Suzhou which is like the Venice of the east. It has canals but no Italians...

Nick having a sook at a 'garden of rememberance hall of snowing falling cedars brushing against a tiger mountain lily flower purple mountain begins' or some such translation. Suzhou

A mural outside a school in Shanghai.

Monks in training at Po Lin monastery in Lantau Island Honkers.

The 10000 Buddha temple actually has about 12000. We walked many steps to get up there in the heat to pray to the god of long eyebrows.

There was a Sumo Wrestling Comp at Vegas and I was lucky enough to meet two of them. I got to practice my Japanese too- I said Thanks in japanese!

Freemont St in Vegas - Downtown. This is where it all started!

This is one of my favourite cities in the world. New York. This is the view looking down from the Empire state Building at sunset. We have been up the Millenium Wheel london, St Pauls London, Eiffel tower, CN tower, Jinmao tower, Stratosphere in Vegas, KL tower, Victoria Peak in Honkers, Sydney tower, hell even Telecom tower in Canberra but nothing beats the view from the Empire. New York is a beautiful city, what more can I say?