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Monaco and Cork trips
I have uploaded some pictures taken during my trip to Monaco and to Cork, Ireland.
Enjoy!
http://picasaweb.google.com/patrik.jelinko/Monaco
http://picasaweb.google.com/patrik.jelinko/Cork
Enjoy!
http://picasaweb.google.com/patrik.jelinko/Monaco
http://picasaweb.google.com/patrik.jelinko/Cork
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Sichuan blog finished
Finally managed to upload the pictures for the Sichuan trip. So if you want to read it from the beginning start reading from the bottom of this page!
Special thanks to Eszter, Acca, and Zoli for sharing their photos with me.
The photos below were NOT enhanced by Photoshop or any other image manipulation utility. The reason behind is obvious: I've managed to spend the money on the Sichuan trip and I don't have money left to purchase Photoshop :-)
So this was what we were able to do with a Canon 30D (Eszter), a Canon 400D (Acca), and a Sony Alpha 100 (me). If you wonder why are so few pictures on the blog, the answer is: there is another 2400 pictures of the trip on my computer...
Special thanks to Eszter, Acca, and Zoli for sharing their photos with me.
The photos below were NOT enhanced by Photoshop or any other image manipulation utility. The reason behind is obvious: I've managed to spend the money on the Sichuan trip and I don't have money left to purchase Photoshop :-)
So this was what we were able to do with a Canon 30D (Eszter), a Canon 400D (Acca), and a Sony Alpha 100 (me). If you wonder why are so few pictures on the blog, the answer is: there is another 2400 pictures of the trip on my computer...
Day 23 - on the way home - Septem 9th, 2007
September 9th was our last (half day) in China. Our driver took 3 of us to the Chengdu airport in the morning and we started our trip back to Hungary.
Some things which I still remember from that said day:
-luggage cannot be checked in to Budapest, we had to pick it up in Beijing
-in Beijing we had to fill out at least 3 different forms before we could lease the country
-changing flights from domestic to international takes at least 2 hours, several queues, small airport. I guess these guys are building a new airport for the Olympics because doesn't seem to handle a lot of passengers
-although we bought a KLM ticket our flight back was operated by China Southern, which meant: bad food, extremely small seats, boring movies on a shitty entertainment center (sometimes no sound, sometimes just bad quality), and a lost backpack (which was found 2 days after).
Acca has stayed one more day in Chengdu so he had time to visit the local Panda Zoo. He managed to see some red pandas as well.
Some things which I still remember from that said day:
-luggage cannot be checked in to Budapest, we had to pick it up in Beijing
-in Beijing we had to fill out at least 3 different forms before we could lease the country
-changing flights from domestic to international takes at least 2 hours, several queues, small airport. I guess these guys are building a new airport for the Olympics because doesn't seem to handle a lot of passengers
-although we bought a KLM ticket our flight back was operated by China Southern, which meant: bad food, extremely small seats, boring movies on a shitty entertainment center (sometimes no sound, sometimes just bad quality), and a lost backpack (which was found 2 days after).
Acca has stayed one more day in Chengdu so he had time to visit the local Panda Zoo. He managed to see some red pandas as well.
Day 22
We jumped on the first bus at 6:00am to get to the top of Emei Shan. We were hoping that it is not going to rain up on the top unlike down in the village. We had bad luck. It was raining and was quite cold. So if you want to see nice pictures of Emai Shan visit this page.
Anyways it was a nice trip to the top.
We got back to the village around noon. After a lunch on the street we drove to Leshan what is really famous of the biggest sitting Buddha statue. It is 71 meters tall. Some more info can be found here.
Anyways it was a nice trip to the top.
We got back to the village around noon. After a lunch on the street we drove to Leshan what is really famous of the biggest sitting Buddha statue. It is 71 meters tall. Some more info can be found here.
Day 21
We have visited the lower part of Mount Emei (Emei Shan), another sacred mountain in Sichuan. It is full of nice monasteries, monks, monkeys. Weather was really humid, the pictures are not so good.
Where Wenshu Buddha met his disciple
Where Wenshu Buddha met his disciple
Day 20
Another boring day in the car. We learn that roads could be in bad condition not only in the mountains. But we managed to get a really fancy hotel at the Emei Shan for 80 yuan per night.
We had lunch at the same restaurant on the side of the road as 5 days ago. The chef was great again, and not just because his mother helped him :-)
Home made stuff... Strong and cheap (10 yuan for half a liter)
We had lunch at the same restaurant on the side of the road as 5 days ago. The chef was great again, and not just because his mother helped him :-)
Home made stuff... Strong and cheap (10 yuan for half a liter)
Day 19
We have visited the Hailuogou Glacier National Park. It is another beautiful place. I have learnt that glaciers are not always white, especially not at 2700 meters in the summer.
More info on Hailuogou here.
Can you see the people on it?
On the top of the picture you can see the bottom of the 1080m high glacier fall
And the end of the glacier, where the river comes out under it. On the right side of the picture the glacier is totally covered by stones.
And the best part of the day was the thermal bath at 2400 meters. It was raining the whole they but me managed to warm up in the pools. Everyone could find the best temperature as it varied from pool to pool between 30 and 45 degrees.
More info on Hailuogou here.
Can you see the people on it?
On the top of the picture you can see the bottom of the 1080m high glacier fall
And the end of the glacier, where the river comes out under it. On the right side of the picture the glacier is totally covered by stones.
And the best part of the day was the thermal bath at 2400 meters. It was raining the whole they but me managed to warm up in the pools. Everyone could find the best temperature as it varied from pool to pool between 30 and 45 degrees.
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