Photo Journey of the Week – Qingdao, China

This week’s photo journey is about my trip to China during March before the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Below are photos from the Qingdao portion of the trip!

This monk above repeatedly told passerby’s to quiet down as we were in a Buddhist Temple in Qingdao. He was not amused by the tourists ignoring the “Silence” signs everywhere.

Close up depiction of Buddha above. One of the many shrines on premises.

Buddhist Monk walking out of Temple through the tourists. 

Different Buddha statue with canopy.

While in Qingdao by the coast, we ran into a bridal shoot but there were several brides at once. We couldn’t tell if it was a magazine shoot or if actual brides were shooting their wedding shots together. Local street vendor near the coast of Qingdao Fertility shrine in Buddhist Temple Coastal Qingdao was beautiful despite the overcast weather. The brides were the only ones on the beach  Fireworks at the Qingdao Inauguration of the 2008 Beijing Olympics  Band playing at the Inauguration  Food as always interesting to say the least. But you could always count on good beer……and more monks un-amused by tourists.