Chinese New Years - Dumplings and Explosives

Its Chinese New Years (春节） here in Beijing. We get the week off to spend with our host families celebrating. So far it has been incredible, here is a photo essay.

The embedded slideshow is hard to read and goes too quickly so I am just going to post the link to fullscreen slideshow.

Full Screen (You might want to slow it down a bit)

Here are some of my favorite shots




















After this week, we are going to be traveling in Yunnan for three weeks which should be insane. Happy New Years!