Our “Get out of the Cold” Vacation – China (Day 4)

By Linda G. on January 26, 2010

We spent the fourth day (Thursday, January 14th) of our Florida vacation at Epcot. Epcot is divided into two parts: Future World and World Showcase. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I will be sharing with you our visit at World Showcase over the next several days. Earlier I shared with you our visit to Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Morocco, Japan, the American Adventure, Italy, Germany, and an African Outpost. This blog post contains photographs from our visit to China.

Paifang Gate in front of the Temple of Heaven

Temple of Heaven

We walked inside the Temple of Heaven, where we saw these tomb warriors.

According to a plaque, “These tomb warriors were intended to be the protectors of the emperor beyond the grave. Because nearly all of the faces are unique, some archeologists believe that the figures were modeled after real soldiers.” When I came home, I discovered on the Internet that this is a replica of a famous excavation in Xi’an, China.

Colorful Chinese shop
The paper umbrellas are very pretty!

We were amazed as we watched the performance of the Dragon Legend Acrobats. In the three photographs that follow the young performers are spinning carpet on their hands and feet.

Dragon Legend Acrobats

The young performers did various tricks with hoops and a jump rope too.

Dragon Legend Acrobats

From China we walked to Norway, the subject of my next blog post.

5 Responses to “Our “Get out of the Cold” Vacation – China (Day 4)”

Corker2 January 26, 2010

Don't recall seeing demo's such as these while we were there. Maybe it's that we missed them or was not the right time.Thanks for your correction. I get a bit confused on some of the stuff we saw. There is so, so much.Since we have been to Disney 4 times in the past, I'm pretty well “Disney'd out.” Maybe we will return in a few years. However, things might change and we will return again.

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eileeninmd January 27, 2010

Wonderful shots from Epcot! I loved Disney and Epcot, there is just so much to see and do.

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Elena January 27, 2010

Wow those performances are amazing! I would love to see them in real life.

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Ciss B January 27, 2010

Amazing acrobats!

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Jackie January 30, 2010

Great pics as usual, Linda!It was kinda sorta like the real thing! ;)Jackie

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