More from china

This is the Shanghai Market which is actually inside a subway station. You can definetly find some good bargains here, but make sure to bargain because the first price they give you is like 10 to 5 times what they are willing to sell at.

So this is the beggining of the main tourist street in Shanghai called Nanjing road. Its kinda like the same as the one in Beijing. We were here for the May First (Chinese labor day) Holiday, Very crowded, but fun.

So in Shanghai I found this bamboo scaffolding. it was really cool to see the bamboo.

I guess we really likeed the xian market because here is that picture again

In Beijing they have a place called the pearl market where there are tons of pearls. some are really expensive (which was only a hundread dollars, but expensive to me) and some were really cheap (like 50 cents). The pearl market also sells clothes, electronics, bags and some other stuff that im pretty sure you dont need to buy. This is deffinately a bargaining place, I think I was kicked out of at least 20 stalls for being to cheap. when some told me 800 yuan (chinese money) for an item I said 80. about 8 of 10 times I got that price too, although they weren't too happy about it. So the rule of thumb divide by ten. Although there were a couple of shops that didn't like the stress of barganing so they had signs posted outside "fixed price" or "one price" and they generally sold for a good price as well so no bargaing needed there.

SO I thought I would show my strength off by carrying one of the heavy cannons that used to be posted on the great wall.

picture of one of the more steeper parts. I was surprised to see some really old people up here, only moving a foot an hour, I was still impressed.

One of the castle looking thing on the great wall. Christina calls them post, I thought mini castles was more fitting.

So just about an hour away from beijing by bus is the great wall. this section is the badaling section, the most visited part of the great wall. it was pretty windy here and a little chilly. but after walking up the steep inclines of the wall you get pretty hot.