Because jumping while traveling is awesome!
Last jump in New-York, I’ve been joined by Arnaud, Sylvain B and Matthieu and we’ll soon start our roadtrip accross the USA.
But today, we just act like a plain real tourist and take the ferry to Liberty Island.
A few minutes after this photo was taken, a huge rain shower started and we had to run for our lives under some trees… like everybody else 🙂
I really did have to think a while before deciding to post this picture. I didn’t intend to look so Kawai / Kikoolol / Kute / <insert other girly adjectives starting with K here>…
But what the heck, surroundings, new Spring season and sunny weather might have gotten into my mood and ended up with this look 🙂
I tried to recover some charisma with another jump…
… but failed again.
The Forbidden City is at the very heart of the Chinese capital. It was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty and it is HUGE ! It consists of 980 buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms and covers 720,000 m²!
But it can get a bit boring as, after a few minutes walking around, all buildings quickly look the same. This is when being with an awesome gang like Petulia, JP and Sylvain can turn a boring visit into the greatest fun. The “mot d’ordre” was : let’s make some stupid pictures !! And so we did. And many ! All of them are not jumping pics, so I cannot show them all here, for the sake of that website 🙂
We started with a Pay Jumping:
Meditation Jumping?
Freestyle Jumping:
Double High Five Jumping
Double X-Jumping (and a late Jumper)
Creative Jumping :
This one is a gem. Witch Jumping !!
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Mirror Jumping:
And last but not least, that homage to the Beatles below, had us getting quite some attraction from the locals.
The Great Wall is really stunning, and is definitely a must-see in China. It’s construction started as early as the 5th century BC and spanned until the 16th century AD. The wall as we can see it today is mostly from the latest Ming dynasty. It is the biggest architectural structure ever built, both in terms of length, surface and weight.
We went on a tour with our fellow friends from Beijing Downtown Backpackers hostel (hostel that I definitely recommend!) and spent 3 hours walking up, and down, and up, and down, and… the wall.
Sylvain and his unique style:
I took a rather conservative jumping:approach:
The Kiwis Hannah and Troy and their crazy jumping styles:
A fellow Danish companion that happened to be wanting to try it too that day:
We even started an inter-nation Jumping exercise:
