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Day 5


13th July 2005
More tat-shopping opportunities on the way to the Great Wall.
This giant jade frog could be yours for only 24000 yuan (£1500), plus postage and packing.
Taking a photograph beside a rock with the name of the place you're visiting is fundamentally important to Chinese tourist culture, here offering even more conclusive proof that Mum went to the Great Wall than the wall itself in the background.
Mum pretending to be a Teracotta Warrior.
It was quite a hike up.
Cloisonne production at a factory near the wall.
Carving the duck in a Peking Duck restaurant in Qianmen.

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