Sunday, November 05, 2006

My Journey East and The Journey to the West


Beijing - 0n National Day.
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Some amusing mispells...from China
On the freeway - " Caution! Rear end collusion - Keep Space"
On the CD cover of a popular animation movie - " The Loin King"

More...Coming as and when I see them.


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During my visit to The Summer Palace and the North Ocean Palace in Beijing I got to know a little about the history of China. And what surprised me is the close links that India and China share, culturally. Nothing signifies this better than "The Journey to the West" - one of the four great novels of Chinese literature. Hanuman is Sun Wukong. And no, I am not referring to King Kong or Loin kings for that matter.
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The view from my hotel room at dawn..

Im putting up some pictures taken on my Beijing Trip. In this post I'll restrict my pictures to day One of my visit, since I'm too lazy to put up all the pictures right now. Will do it in installments. We left Tanggu in the afternoon and reached Beijing around 7 pm. We checked into our hotels and we were off to taste the best Beijing Duck in Beijing. After dinner we walked into Tiananmen square - very close to where the restaurant was. And these are pictures taken there. Ill make another post with pictures of the Summer Palace and the North Ocean Palace which we visited the next day.


















Tiananmen Gate.















Tiananmen Gate - the other side.

Other Pictures from Tiananmen Square:



4 comments:

Harini said...
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Harini said...

Who is being represented in this last picture?Is there a story behind it?

Karthik Sriram said...

Doode,

I heard from a chinese guy in my lab that nee means "you" in chinese too and a few other words sounded the same in chinese and tamizh. was very wierd!!

izmir ev taşıma said...

thanks you...