Thursday, August 4, 2011

Lama Temple in Beijing



I spent a week in China right after the reunion/birthday party.

Over the weekend I visited the Lama Temple.

It is an old Buddhist temple. Really a series of temples.

Notice the incense smoke in the lower right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonghe_Temple

Not sure who this is.


This is a Tibetan Buddhist temple.

It is over 300 years old.








Many people were there offering prayers and burning incense.






 A pile of incense sticks after prayers.



This guy was in a shop outside the temple. I think he was offering to tell your fortune or maybe be a spiritual guide.




Here is a fruit market in the hutong near the temple.


The next week we had a series of meetings in Tianjin.

After a nice dinner we went for a cruise on the Hai He.


There are a number of bridges as you might guess for a city bisected by a river.


They all  have interesting designs.


Tianjin has a completely different feel than Beijing.


Lots of interesting architecture - much more modern.


I don't think this building is finished, yet.

We drifted in the river for 20 minutes after the boat ran out of gas.



We continued the cruise after a speedboat showed up with a spare tank.

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