Foreigners and Confucius
Confucius Forest:
In the afternoon of our first day of crazy Qufu tourism...we visited the Confucius Forest. It was really quite beautiful...and QUIET! for a moment I almost forgot I was in China...and then we stumbled upon Confucius' tomb, or more accurately we found it by following the stream of German tourists and loud megaphones and swarming groups of Chinese tourists. I don't think I'll ever fully understand the appropriateness of megaphones in historical places...but nevertheless it was quite nice. When we wandered away from the tomb, we found some nice, peaceful areas where there were lots of trees and a "river" aka algae filled water way with a cute little bridge. If we had journeyed on, we would have found the animal statues...but we were really tired so we decided to catch them next time. It was nice though to see some nature...of VT i miss you.
Crazy truck of brush that almost hit us!
mmmm algae...i dared everyone to touch it...no one took me up on it...they said i'd have to pay the hospital bills! :)
chillin' on the bridge...Clayton is that a smile...in a picture? your face didn't malfunction yaaay!
Tomb of Confucius
This is a very authentic, ancient tomb/sign to prevent smoking in the Confucius Forest... :)
Confucious Mansion: Day one of foreigners take on Confucius...morning...we visited the Temple and the Mansion. Too bad Clatyon, Jeff, and I visited these two only about 3 or 4 weeks ago with our students. But it was free...and fun...and i took a "few" more pictures.
large, strange flower in the garden at the Confucius Mansion
rocks!...there was also a sign nearby that stated: "Don't climb at will fory our safety!" hmmmmm fory you say, well in that case!
Cyndie, Li Li, Lisa, and Traci at the Temple pretending to be the statue with it's tongue sticking out. Li Li is the 5 year old daughter of our Russian coworker...and she's SUPER cute!! :)
In the afternoon of our first day of crazy Qufu tourism...we visited the Confucius Forest. It was really quite beautiful...and QUIET! for a moment I almost forgot I was in China...and then we stumbled upon Confucius' tomb, or more accurately we found it by following the stream of German tourists and loud megaphones and swarming groups of Chinese tourists. I don't think I'll ever fully understand the appropriateness of megaphones in historical places...but nevertheless it was quite nice. When we wandered away from the tomb, we found some nice, peaceful areas where there were lots of trees and a "river" aka algae filled water way with a cute little bridge. If we had journeyed on, we would have found the animal statues...but we were really tired so we decided to catch them next time. It was nice though to see some nature...of VT i miss you.
Crazy truck of brush that almost hit us!
mmmm algae...i dared everyone to touch it...no one took me up on it...they said i'd have to pay the hospital bills! :)
chillin' on the bridge...Clayton is that a smile...in a picture? your face didn't malfunction yaaay!
Me above the slimey water...while being a little disgusting, it is actually quite pretty...in a weird way...
It is said that this mythical beast could shoot flames from its underarms....yeah, i think that if i could have a super power i would definitely want the ability to shoot flames from my armpits!
resemblance anyone?
It is said that this mythical beast could shoot flames from its underarms....yeah, i think that if i could have a super power i would definitely want the ability to shoot flames from my armpits!
resemblance anyone?
Tomb of Confucius
This is a very authentic, ancient tomb/sign to prevent smoking in the Confucius Forest... :)
Confucious Mansion: Day one of foreigners take on Confucius...morning...we visited the Temple and the Mansion. Too bad Clatyon, Jeff, and I visited these two only about 3 or 4 weeks ago with our students. But it was free...and fun...and i took a "few" more pictures.
large, strange flower in the garden at the Confucius Mansion
rocks!...there was also a sign nearby that stated: "Don't climb at will fory our safety!" hmmmmm fory you say, well in that case!
Cyndie, Li Li, Lisa, and Traci at the Temple pretending to be the statue with it's tongue sticking out. Li Li is the 5 year old daughter of our Russian coworker...and she's SUPER cute!! :)
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