go to www.photopoints.com and look up "icerock" he captures and presents the most extraordinary shots of his country...
-- (October 22, 2004) on this image
It may be a bit late... but for your next trip, do consider www.wildchina.comIt is owned by a young lady, who secured a MBA at Harvard a few years ago... met a boy... he is now the bureau chief of the Washington Post in Beijing
I do not like travel organizers... avoid them like the plague...
But Mei is really special... can arrange for a crystal and linen laid table in the desert north of Beijing for dinner as the sun sets, with the finest liquids to fill the crystal and eats to fill your tummy... to getting to Pingyao... an unique Ming walled town that certainly within a few years will be overrun, but now no hotels only old mandarin houses... simply delicious... to what ever...
Including a walk... no a hike on the Great wall... fours hours NE of Beijing... where you will not see one foreigner... and if you are lucky maybe a couple of peasants plowing their fields...
Travel safely, with your legs crossed, but a camera full of film!
-- (October 22, 2004) on China