Links to Zen Harper's Photos... Yes indeed; here you can click to see lots of photos of various places (when I get round to adding some more...) Click here to return to main page .... Xi'an, China (terracotta warriors) The MONKEY page! (Luoyang or Xi'an), China Miscellaneous China photos Yunnan province, China ..... Shenzhen, China - miniature world Guilin, China Shanghai, China Huge Bronze Buddha statue, China Singapore ..... THAILAND photos - page 1 ..... LAOS photos - page 1 . . . . . . . . . BACK TO MAIN PAGE
						Info: in September 2002 and December 2003/January 2004, I was very lucky to be able to make two tourist trips to China, and stay with some friends there. Here are some of the pictures; there are many, many more not shown here unfortunately; one day I shall scan a lot more in and enlarge these pages considerably. NOTE: I went around on various tours for Chinese tourists only, on some of which most people spoke no English [arranged by my friends], which was amusing [I assume the foreigner tours are a lot more expensive]. I speak Chinese very well apparently, but only with an extremely limited vocabulary; the following useful phrases between them contain almost every word I know: I WANT TO EAT CARROTS YOU ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL MY CHINESE IS NOT GOOD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...consequently, and combined with my poor aging memory, I may have got some of the facts/figures/locations in these pages slightly mixed up.
				Amusing stuff: "NO CHUCK THING" (meaning, "don't throw litter"), as a sign in Shenzhen said. "Avoid falling into unseen trap of scum" (meaning, beware of conmen), as a Tourism Authority of Thailand warning sign says. Food: "A green animal we eat" is the description of a frog, according to one of my Chinese friends. The Jet Li films The Shaolin Temple and Martial Arts of Shaolin contain scenes in which people eat a barbequed dog, frog congee, and snakeskin in steamed buns, willingly with great enjoyment! I've seen restaurants in China with roasted dog hanging outside to attract customers; and street food stalls in Bangkok with fried lizards, beetles, grasshoppers and various other unidentified insects...but the most unbelievable to me was some of my Chinese friends eating chicken feet - with toenails!! Urrgh... BACK TO MAIN Zen Harper PAGE
	NOTE: Tourists in China (at least 5 years ago, anyway) seem to be almost entirely Americans and Germans; I don't recall meeting a single English person there the whole time. Thailand seems to have a broader mixture of tourists [UPDATE Feb. 2009 - although Bangkok does seem a bit less crowded now; I blame the PAD for their ridiculous and unfair terrorist airport blockade a few months ago].