Rickshaw man

Rickshaw man, originally uploaded by MadDog78.

While wandering around downtown Beijing, I came on this rickshaw man waiting for a fare. Some of the people seemed to shy away from having their picture taken, so I surreptiously took his picture with my camera.
Beijing is an amazing city. Eight million people living in a city. Half of them drive cars, the other half ride bikes, and all of them move through the city on a daily basis.
To me, the city felt old as though it had been lived in for centuries. And it has. We went to dinner in Szechuan restaurant with some of the hotest food I've ever eaten. My lips were tingling after having the traditional fish stew.
It was so interesting to be in a part of the world that had been civilised for so much longer than my country had been in existence.