Pictures post!

Sorry, I had some problems with my Great Firewall of China reach-around software, but now that I am more or less connected again, I can post pictures from the second part of my travels this fall. See below, and click through for the full gallery.

View out the train window on the way into Tibet

October is whitewash season in Tibet. Even the plants get a taste!

The 'rents in front of Potala Palace

Old palace in Shigatse

Yours truly by Yamdrok Tso

Monks setting up sand painting in Lhasa

Halloween crowds in Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong

Macao street scene

Fishing across from the casinos in Macao

Macao's most picturesque, but kind of old and seedy, casino

Conor enjoying our train ride to Guilin

Drying rice in northern Guangxi province

"Without the Communist Party, there would be no New China"

The power of positive thinking, in eastern Guizhou province

Impossible scenery in Wulingyuan in Hunan province

A viewing platform called "Frightened in the Height" in Wulingyuan

Sunrise in Wulingyuan

Morning in Dehang in western Hunan province

Contemplating the Chinese tourist hordes below outside (above) Dehang

The dirty, dirty ferry service across the Yangtze River in Wuhan