Rebecca in China

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First noodles in China

Me and a Monk at the Labrang Monastry in Gansu. The decorations in the background take 3 months to make out of yack butter and natural dyes.

Lady sitting counting her prayer beads in the monastry. If you count the prayer beads three times a day, it is said to bring you good luck.

Beijing - first week in China

The buildings surrounding Tiananmen Square.

Me and my Chinese friend Cloud,

In china, many people choose an English name. They take the name from the translation of their chinese name, or will pick their own. Cloud translates from her Chinese name Aaiyunlishui, which means Cloud beautiful water.

During the Chinese language course in Lanzhou we all stayed with a host family. Cloud was the girl I was staying with, taking me around Lanzhou and teaching me Chinese culture.

So here's a few pics off Kuitun.

The first is what the majority of the streets are like, long and straight, lots of big cross roads, lined with trees and lots of little shops.

Every one here owns a bike, there's not one street you go down without seeing at least 10 people on bikes, so offcourse they have lots of repair shops dotted asround the street corners. Some ar little rooms filled with all the part you could ever need, pluss more, and then others are just little trailers on the back of bikes with repair tools for punctures, screws and other little bits and bobs.

Allong the streets neer the markets you get tralers parked selling all the fresh produce, little stalls of fruit and veg, large chimineer type thiings cooking fresh bread, and also extremely fresh, so fresh theyre still alive, chickens in (and on top off) little trailer cages.

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