Photographs from day 3 of my China trip in 2014.
These photos were all taken on day 3 of my escorted tour of China in 2014. I visited the Great Wall of China in the morning & visited the Beijing Hutongs in the afternoon.
This photo shows a home we visited in the Beijing Hutongs. It consisted of many rooms built around a central courtyard.
This room in this home is rented out to newlyweds who want to spend their honeymoon in an authentic home in the Beijing hutongs.
Me, Alan Morris, in the Beijing Hutongs.
When walking around the Beijing hutongs I walked around a corner & bumped into this fellow Gooner. He couldn't speak English & I couldn't speak Chinese but somehow we made an instant friendship.
A rental boat on the canal in downtown Beijing, close to the hutongs area.
Rental boats moored up along a canal in downtown Beijing.
These bicycle pulled carriages are used as taxis or for showing tourists around downtown Beijing, especially around the hutongs area.
Tourists hire boats to tour around the canal in downtown Beijing.
Mike & I, Alan Morris, in the bicycle pulled carriage touring the Beijing hutongs.
Our bicycle drawn carriages play chicken with a car in the Beijing hutongs.
The mirror effect of the windows on this downtown Beijing building shows the buildings opposite in reflection.
The traffic in downtown Beijing is crazy, I am glad I didn't have to drive there.
Traffic merging onto a roundabout in Beijing.
The Beijing traffic during rush hour. The traffic is crazy in Beijing but it does seem to keep moving.
Underground car park in downtown Beijing is surrounded by glass-covered tower blocks reflecting everything around them.
Mel & Tracy on a bicycle drawn carriage in the Beijing Hutongs.
Three Chinese ladies walking through the Beijing Hutongs as we are taking a bicycle drawn carriage ride through the area.
Surely using a motorbike to pull one of these carriages is cheating, it's just not on old chap.
