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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Great Wall at Mutianyu |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Great Wall at Mutianyu |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 I meant to finish this sketch of the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests in the evening light after getting back, but decided to leave it as a reminder that once the moment is lost, sketching it would never be the same... |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Waiting for our train... |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 High speed train from Beijing to Xi'an |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Ticket of Xi'an City Walls and sketch of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda (大雁塔) |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Bell Tower (钟楼) and Drum Tower (鼓楼)of Xi'an |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Great Mosque. This is the only on-site sketch I did in Xi'an because the rest of the time I was either on tour or with another bunch of tourists. |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Muslim Quarter |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Forest of Stone Stelae (碑林) Museum |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuang and Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Xi'an night tour |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Shaanxi History Museum artifacts The museum gives out 4000 free tickets a day. |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Han Yang Ling (汉阳陵), tomb of Emperor Jingdi |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests (祈年殿) in the Altar of Heaven Park (天坛公园) |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Buildings and structures around the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests and Circular Mound Altar (圆丘) |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Things around the Imperial Vault of Heaven (皇穹宇) |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Left: Information on China's music history one one panel in the Divine Music Administration Right: People exercising and playing shuttlecock in the Altar of the Sun park (日坛公园) |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Left: Stone boat at Altar of the Sun Park Right: Lunch at Qianmendajie and Dazhalan, including siew mai (a kind of dumplings) from the famed 都一处 |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Left: My loot from Liulichang (琉璃厂) Right: Chinese Christian paper cutting of Christ's resurrection |
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| Copyright © Favian Ee Sept 2013 Waiting for our flight back |
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I guess that's all, folks! I hope you enjoyed the sketches and travelogue (I actually kept a separate notebook for a more detailed travelogue), and found the information in the links useful. Hope this also inspires you to keep your own travel sketchalogue! This is one souvenir that you can never get anywhere else!
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