Pictures of Wuhan

Since I wasn't able to get out and see things very well in Wuhan and certainly wasn't able to take pictures, I was frustrated that you guys would not get to see what I saw but would just have to read that long post. So, instead, I just went on the internet and got some pictures of the places I passed by in the bus. Wuhan is definitely a place I want to go back to sometime, but until then, here are some pictures. None of them are mine, but they each have little captions describing what they are.



Wuhan's famous Yellow Crane Tower (Huang He Lou) on the top of Snake Hill



View of Wuhan and of the First Yangtze River Bridge. The view is from Wuchang looking across to Hanyang with some of Hankou to the right. We took this road across on the bus.



First Yangtze River Bridge, built in 1957 with Soviet help. There is still a military guard on it to this day. The train runs underneath and cars go back and forth above.



Another view of the first bridge.



Yangtze River in Wuhan.



Site of the 1911 Xianhai Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty and first headquarters of the government of the Republic of China.



Memorial to the October 10, 1911 Wuchang Uprising and to Sun Yat Sen, the founder of the Republic of China.



The "third" Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan, this is the cable suspension bridge built in in 1998 and how I got back and forth from the airport.



Part of Wuhan, probably Hankou, at night with the skyscrapers with their nighttime lights.