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China: Photo Highlights

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These were some of the best moments we were able to capture while in China.

Enjoy

Onwards: Great Wall
Great Wall Landscape
OU Team on the Great Wall
Flying High
Soaring Through
OU Team + Audience on Great Wall
OU-P2 Hovering Over the Great Wall
Another Place Another Pose
Supporting the U on the Great Wall
Goofing Around on the Great Wall
Forbidden City Architecture
Our Boys at the Base of the Great Wall
The Emperor and his First Wife
The Not-So Forbidden City
Temple of Heaven
The Terra Cotta Warriors
Shanghai Skyline
The Old vs. The New
Just Another Day’s Work
Onwards: Shanghai Pagoda
Shanghai’s Tallest Towers
Onwards: Riverboat
Another Day Another Temple
Striking a Pose with the One and Only

Emperors of the Forbidden City

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Forbidden City Entrance
Forbidden City Lion
Gesy in the City
Forbidden City Dragon Statue
Forbidden City
View of the Forbidden City
Man-servant gazes upon all the work he’s going to have to do

The Forbidden City is one of the biggest hotspots of Beijing sightseeing, and we were lucky enough to visit it during a Chinese holiday, a.k.a the busiest Forbidden City day of the year with over 60,000 people walking through the gates.  The city was built around 600 years ago, and was used to house the ancient emperors of Chinese history, as well as their millions of concubines.  Not only do you get to see where the emperors lived, but you get to BE an emperor as well!  At one point during the tour, you get to be dressed up as ancient Chinese emperors and concubines, and, for some reason, I was dressed up as the lowly man-servant.  I was the only man-servant in all of the forbidden city with my little rat-tail hat, and I was left alone while the rest of the crew had everyone in China taking pictures with them.