I win the currency wars

Since planning my trip for this past fall I realized that I was going to do the impossible. It took me almost six years, but from my first visit to Tiananmen Square back in January 2005 to sailing through the Three Gorges a few weeks ago, I finally acheived one of my life goals: to visit all the places portrayed on the back of Chinese currency. Along with trying turducken, that's two life goals down. Enjoy the pics and links down memory lane below:

West Lake in Hangzhou

Tai Shan

 

Three Gorges on the Yangtze River

Karst peaks along the Li River near Yangshuo

 

Potala Palace in Lhasa

Great Hall of the People in Beijing

And a bonus! An old issue of the one yuan bill:

Great Wall of China