The aircraft carrier theme park in Tianjin

OK, it`s been a while since I was there. It was a tourist spot back than. After that I heard it was turned into a very expensive hotel.  I have no idea what it is now, but the pictures are from the time it was a kind of a museum. It was interesting and totally worthed the long way there and the expensive ticket.
More info about the ship you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Kiev
As for my personal experience, it was really exciting. I never thought one day I will have a chance to see in person something like that, to touch it and to be able to take pictires of it.
So, here are some pictures:

Picture of a sand storm

I have been really busy doing other things and this blog stayed without new publications for a really long time.

Well, I guess it is time to change that, or at least try.

For the new beginning I want to show you the only picture of a sand storm I took myself. It may not seem like such a big deal, but when you are there, you wake up,  it is just yellow outside and at the time you have no idea why, it is really exciting…

This is how the campus of my university looked around 11.30 a.m. The picture is not photoshoped.

Happy New Chinese Year! :)

新年快乐！万事如意！一切都好！: )

 Happy New Chinese Year! :)

An evening walk along Haihe in Tianjin

Here some pictures of an evening walk along Haihe  river in Tianjin.


A beautiful building by the river:

 The Jiefang bridge :

Tianjin world financial center, the unknown beautiful building and Dagu Bridge:

I really thought this was on Opera House, but can`t find it in Google right now, so an other unknown building:

 The Dagu bridge and some buildings:

A view from Dagu bridge towards Jiefang bridge:

 

Tianjin World Financial Center:  

The Chinese "black" eggs

As long as I know, there are two kinds of "black" eggs in China. One of them is boiled in tea, the other one stayed for a long time in some mixture.
Here you can find more info about the second kind.
I will talk about both kinds later, now, I will just show you a picture of the second kind:

The National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing

This is a place, which  is probably not included in the tours of Beijing. There are really a lot of things you could visit there and if you have only a day or two the time would definitely not be enough for everything.

But yet, if you are at Tiananmen square and have some 20 minutes free time (enough to take a look from outside) or an hour (enough to go inside too), I think you will not be sorry if you cross the street, so you are on the side of the Great Hall of the People, walk around it and exactly on the opposite side of it, you will see the National Center for Performing Arts.

It is a beauty. You will see that immediately.  It is encircled in water and looks very peacefully and the same time a kind of unreal.

And if you have some more time, to go inside, the real adventure begins.

You enter at the end of the lake, buy a visitor ticket and start walking in an amazing corridor with water over  your head. Yes, exactly, you are walking under the lake and the ceiling is transparent, so you can see both the water with its small waves and the sun above it. It is really a very pleasant walk.

Then you go to the building. It is huge inside and really majestic. With the visitor ticket you can see different halls every day (it depends which one  is busy at the moment).

I had the chance to see the Opera Hall. I felt really sorry that I don`t have a professional camera which could take a decent picture of something like that. It is amazing! Really very, very beautiful.  

And at the end, I wish you all to have a chance to enjoy it yourself!

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A view from outdside:

 Antoher one:

 The transparent ceiling with the water and the sun:

 The corridor with the transparent ceiling:

And this is how it looks inside:

 A view from inside:

Chengde Mountain Resort (Chinese: 避暑山庄; Bìshǔ Shānzhuāng)

 

     The mountain resort in Chengde (Hebei province) is not one of the most famous landmarks of China. It definitely can not compare  to the Forbidden city or  the Terracotta Army in Xian. But yet, it is a place worth visiting. It is only about three hours drive away from Beijing. In Chengde there are also a few very famous  Buddhist temples I will talk about in other posts.

      The most important thing about it, is that it is beautiful. Wherever you look, it is always beautiful. While walking you feel like you are in a dream or a fairytale and you want to take pictures all the time because from every angle it looks like a postcard. Of course, I have to say that I was there at autumn (which is generally the best season for visiting Beijing and the area around it) and I have no idea how it looks during the other seasons.

     I upload some pictures I took myself. Hope you will enjoy them!

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