They've gone all out and have put in all these displays to make tourist think they've got value for their money. I got my money's worth, doing the robot:
Andrew tried on his new shoes with built in suction caps on the heels:
ET wasn't impressed however, and gave us the finger:
The Pearl Tower has seen an explosion of growth around it, since 1994:
to 2007:
Click here to check out all the photos in between
Right! Off on our first full day in Shanghai, we went to check out the Jade Buda, which was hanging out around at this temple:
There were loads of Chinese buying incense bundles, lighting them up, waving them around in the air and chucking them in to these:
We did allow ourselves to get sucked in to seeing this dude. He makes paintings using only his hands, damn impressive!
Andrew and I had to buy one of his paintings each:
(that's his actual size, just like most Chinese people, I haven't photo
shopped it at all, tee hee...)
More wandering around:
Here's the jade Buda, finally!
A friendly, um, monster:
It's not just the Chinese people that are small in China:
Not sure what the name of the God is on the left of this pic, but he looks pretty darn piissed off with me:
Ahh, that's better, don't feel like I've done anything wrong with this dude (even if he's a Nazi):
(actually, Andrew assures me that it was the Nazi's who nicked the Chinese
symbol on the Buda's chest)
This guy wasn't impress that I called his friend a Nazi:
And this guy is really piised off with the other guy in the top left of the pic, giving him the finger:
OK, I see a recurring theme with me being in the dog box here:
