Category: Great Wall

Ok, one more photo with Great Wall tourist. You can see four other in the previous four posts.

Continuing my posts with portrait shots from the Great Wall. We were there at the end of July and it was extremely unpleasant weather, it was hot, humid and smoggy. We didn’t look too glamorous there, we were sweaty and the hit just didn’t do any favors to our appearance. But pretty much every photo of other folks on the wall that I took are looking good, not sweaty and not looking exhausted from the hit and humidity. Maybe it can be attributed to the fact that they didn’t try to cover as much territory as we did, who knows. Or they just know how to handle that type of weather, or maybe they didn’t drink any beer the night prior, hmm.

For the most part I can fairly easy distinguish between different nationalities, even before they open their mouth and say something – then it is obvious give away. But I think it requires some level of world travel and some observation skills. How about you? Can you look at someone and say that it is an American, European (what country), Chinese, Korean, Japanese or from one of the Southeast Asian countries?

With this guy it is not so obvious. Picture is taken in China, but it does not mean that he is actually Han. He could be North Korean (highly unlikely, but not South, that’s for sure), he could be Han from the South China or he might even be from one of the Southeast countries, like Vietnam. Will really never know.