Sunrise Today...

River gardens at Yangquan China

Walk in the gardens along the river — Gardens beside the River

Traveling to Yangquan China

We left Beijing and drove to Yangquan.

The road is excellent and made for an easy drive though some beautiful rural countryside.

There were a couple of Service Areas where the driver can pull into a garage for petrol, have a meal at a restaurant and maybe do some tourist shopping. The Service areas are well staffed and easy access from the road.

Yangquan is the next town from Beijing. There were no other towns on the route. On either side there were green field with maize and vegetables. Living was in villages in the centre of the farmland. All villages were clean and tidy with red brick houses and all services.

Nearer to Shanzi, there were mountains on either side. Some of the areas were quarrying for limestone, and the cliffs were colored orange and white from the quarrying.

We passed the Great Wall at Yangquan. It looked amazing. It is located 20 kms from Yangquan.

The mountains were very beautiful, rugged and still, overlooking the double laned highway.

Arriving at Beijing Drive to Yuanquan

Sunrise at Dumaguette Philippines

http://animoto.com/play/ZA9FcM4L0NNm7wXROhIEVQ#

Dumaguette Resort was the start of the experience, and from here I photographed a beautiful sunrise.

The diving photos are from the reef opposite the resort.

http://travel-maggi.blogspot.com/2010/03/dumaguette-philippines.html

Sunrise in Romania 2007

Sunrise..Train to Romania — Sunrise..Train from Romania

I remember this trip for many reasons, as I froze standing waiting for the train, and was so cold and damp, and then was so cold in the train, that I got sick, and spent my time in Berlin being ill with chills.

This was the sunrise from the train out of Cluj, Romania on the way to Berlin