An opportunity to visit China with Claudia, a friend I had met in Japan one month previously, could not be refused.
Two days of architecture, temples, hotel lobbies, and aching feet, searching out the modern interspersed with the old, the well off mixed with the poor.
The paradox of Communism - bustling with large corporations and shops and expense, on a par with cities such as New York
And one day of travelling to visit Pu Tuo Shan - one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains in China