A walk on the wall.
Yesterday we took a day off from all that family-meeting-during-spring-festival business and took a almost two hour long walk on the famous Xi'An city wall.
AuthorJakob Montrasio (555)
Frontend developer at DIE RHEINPFALZ, photographer under @yakobusan, occasional filmmaker — directed The Way of the Spur in Shanghai, co-directed the Golden Eye–nominated Souls of Zen. Started in Freiburg in 1982, still hasn't picked just one thing.
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Empty Beach.
Yeah, it was good to wait until the golden week in China was over. Sanya rocks!
We're in a nice hotel with a nice beach at Yalong bay at the moment. Gotta go eat some fresh fish now. More pictures later - maybe!
Golden week, so far: Ningbo, a lake, tea mountain and faked cities.
This pictures was not taken in Beijing.
Confusing headline? You should have seen me when I was standing in the fake forbidden palace! Hengdian World Studios is the name of the crazy movie studio that 'rebuild' the forbidden city for cinematic purposes. And not only Beijing, but they also copied some buildings from Xi'An, Hongkong, Guangzhou and other cities. I didn't know this, but quite a few big movie titles were completely or partly shot here: Gong Li's THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, Zhen Kaige's horrible THE PROMISE and last but not least Zhang Yimou's latest drama THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER. And countless chinese TV series, as it seems.
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