Beijing, Great Wall, Jilin Province to the borders of Russia and North Korea

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Shopping mall in Yanji..... nice and warm places but the REAL shopping is usually along the street and roadsides
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All sorts of merchandise and foods are sold along the roadsides..... scenes from Yanji
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The humble sweet potato is just so warm and heavenly delicious in cold weather...
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Bus terminal....... all towns have a bus depot/terminal ..... tons of info on where to connect to where at all sorts of timings are available there
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Yanji shop assistant
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Traders discussing business in Tumen inside a truck before shipping a truckload of hardware over to North Korea
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Yanji street scene outside market area
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An elderly uncle taking an afternoon stroll in his neighborhood in Yanji..... most live in apartments like the ones in the background
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Outside a Hunchun restaurant early morning
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Workers hanging out at the local grocery store in Tumen
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a local Trishaw rider with his ride in Tumen
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Most towns in northern China go to bed early and businesses also close early except for some restaurants and the bars/KTVs
Here restaurant workers pluck and prepare vegetables for the next day's business
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From the overhead bridge crossing the local railway tracks in Tumen
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Neighborhood in Yanji
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A parting image of the beautiful land of Jilin province and its peoples before we returned to Beijing the next day
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[Legoz]

Fantastic! =)

 

[devil77]

Awesome...nice writeup and pictures...i gg to read again...

 

[Scoop]

Very nicely documented! Lovely pictures as well :thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[ed9119]

Thanks guys!

Well, after so many days on the road..... we decided to take it easy and fly back to Beijing from Yanji..... one way economy flight was about 500rmb and took about 1hr 45mins

Back in Beijing, we found ourselves in strange modern surroundings ha ha..... had a big salad and shamelessly went to Mc Donalds for some fries and Coke ha ha ha

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Flight back to Singapore was at midnight the next day so I spent the time doing some shopping and walking around taking in the capital city's sights and did the usual tourist things

Looking at the Forbidden City

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At Qianmen..... man this area really turned touristy very quickly over the last couple of years
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One of the best ways of buying goodies for home is to visit the local Carrefour.... plenty of selections at reasonable prices
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[ed9119]

There were still lots of interesting street scenes in Beijing to shoot that day !!
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And with this little flower we found on the side of the road in Jilin province..... I complete this travelogue and thank you for taking the time reading this lengthly thread

Please feel free to add on to the images and information which I might have missed

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[JacePhoto]

nice pictures. i can relate to those places. kind of miss the places. thanks for sharing.

 

[daredevil123]

Thanks for the pictures ed. I will add more when I go to Hunchun in Jan. I will be staying in the countryside for several days this time. Preparing to freeze my butt off this time.

 

[zaren]

great thread....thx for sharing!

 

[zhenghao]

thanks for posting this series of photos!!really shared your journey with all of us bak at sg!

 

[threadstone71]

:thumbsup:Excellent pictures and write-up. Very enjoyable. Thanks!

 

[Kalsumine]

love it, nice!

 

[ed9119]

Thanks for the kind words everyone.....

 

[HELLOSTEVEN]

This is where we witness the geographical confluence of 3 nations (China, Russia and North Korea)

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Nice photo, what camera and lens u using? Any PP?

Care to share..

 

[ed9119]

the telephoto shots were executed with an ancient Canon 350D paired with the 28-135 IS workhorse.....while all wide angles were shot with a Panasonic LX3

PP work is minimal......... resizing, adjusting some contrast/brightness and sharpening

Most of the B&W images shot with in-camera BW Dynamic mode (LX3) which turned out (I think) pretty decent

 

[HELLOSTEVEN]

the telephoto shots were executed with an ancient Canon 350D paired with the 28-135IS workhorse.....while all wide angles were shot with a Panasonic LX3

PP work is minimal......... resizing, adjusting some contrast/brightness and sharpening

Most of the B&W images shot with in-camera BW Dynamic mode (LX3) which turned out (I think) pretty decent

thanks.

 

[zoossh]

no russians around?