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The Golden Mask Dynasty is a large-scale Chinese musical drama, performed at the OCT Theatre in Beijing Happy Valley. The play is a fairy-tale like story of war, royal banquets, and romance. with the Ancient Sanxingdui Civilization as the times background, it tells the story of the beautiful Golden Mask Queen who built a glorious kingdom with her wisdom, tolerance, trust and love.

Above, prints from the program showing the colourful costumes. And below photos I took from the spectacular waterfall scene, with thousands of litre’s of water cascading down onto the stage, an outstanding moment in the show.

Ivor Steven (c)  2018

The tour of Yu Garden and it’s neighbouring Bazaar was enthralling, entertaining, and the market place was huge and busy.

Above, The famous Yu Garden.

Above, The the bustling Yu bazaar, definitely a place for the barter experts. !!

Above, The famous A.P.Plaza is China’s biggest “fake market”, located underground near the Science and Technology Museum. It has more the 1,000 stores.

Above, the towers of Shanghai, with Jin Mao Tower on the right, the one we went up to the observation deck.

Above, Photos from the observation deck.

Above, looking down the middle of the tower from 88 storey’s up, and looking across to the Oriental Pearl TV Tower.

Ivor Steven (c)  2018

Shanghai is a relatively new city in China, growing from a small seaside city and port, in the 19th century, to be the second most populous city in the world, of more than 24 million people in 2017.

Above, The British style buildings of the 1920’s, along the banks of the Huangpu River

Above, the French section of Shanghai, and it’s lane-way cafe’s.

Above, the most famous Buddhist Temple in China, Jade Buddha Temple

Above, The Shanghai skyline during the daytime, of its famous financial institutions district

Above, The Shanghai sky-line by night, on our Wednesday evening Huangpu River cruise

Ivor Steven (c)  2018

We walked through a doorway in a white painted brick wall, to discover this extraordinary Chinese garden, originally set up as a nobles city getaway garden area.

Like having a holiday and not leaving home

We’ve been so blessed with glorious weather the whole trip. 😊

Ivor Steven (c). 2018