Across from the capital building is a large electronic billboard with changing pictures of China's four chairmen: (L to R) Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zeman, and Hu Jintao.
The Party is getting ready to appoint a new leader.
A visit to the Guangxi Provincial Museum included this building in the shape of a traditional bronze drum.
This pottery urn from 220 BC is decorated with hundreds of the Chinese character 米 (mi, meaning rice).
We were treated as special visitors by a group of children making paper cutouts, which they gave us as gifts.
We returned with our wallets empty and bags full of imported food. Ah, good stuff.
