My top 7 pictures from China

In no order here are my favorite 7 pictures from my recent holiday to China. They where chosen out of many more 🤗 (Click image to view full size).

Smoggy Shanghai skyline 2018
Smoggy Shanghai skyline 2018

Whilst not a healthy sight, the eerie smog that covered Shanghai did offer something that isn’t usually seen back in Australia.

Great wall of China Beijing
Great wall of China Beijing

The iconic Great Wall of China. Here it is in all its steepness, It was almost 40 degrees celsius on the day.

Long corridor summer palace
Long corridor summer palace

728 metres long, with 14,000 paintings this is the Long Corridor at the Summer Palace. You simply cannot capture its size in one photograph. Built in 1750 it is like many other Chinese tourists sites incredibly old.

Marble boat at the summer palace
Marble boat at the summer palace

The Marble Boat sits in Kunming lake at the Summer Palace and was first built-in 1755. It’s amazing that something so intricate could be made back then.

Chinese building art
Chinese building art

A structure at the Lama Temple site. The colors amazing and this fine art was always on display in the ancient Chinese buildings.

Building at the summer palace
Building at the summer palace

The temple of Buddhist Virtue at the Summer Palace. Over looking seemingly the whole of the area, you couldn’t miss this.

Birds nest stadium
Birds nest stadium

The Birds nest stadium was the main stadium using for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The design was very refreshing and the whole stadium just feels open.