This is our group at a church service in Tai Yuan listening to a Chinese sermon understanding every word. (*cough *cough)
This is the view from our hotel room - pollution in Tai Yuan is worse then most places in the country.
Dust settles on everything which kind of makes one wonder what the city would look like if it didn't have a brown coating on it.
This is a government chalkboard where certain commands are written for the public to follow over the next set period of time. These aren't found in the big cities but they're still around out in the smaller cities and countryside.
The government is working hard at keeping the big cities clean however in the smaller towns (2 million or less) there is still a lot of noticeable poverty and filth.
This is the spot where the first Christian Martyr died in China.
This is the site of the start of the boxer rebellion where (100 years ago) there was a mass carnage where dozens of Christians were executed for their faith.