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Published: December 1st 2007
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...of the hallway in our hotel.Hang Zhou eh? Well it’s the morning of “day 2” here at Hang Zhou and the start of a crazy week that finishes with a trip to Qingdao (back home we call it Tsing Tsao). For those of you who enjoy perusing the “fancy” section of the Brewers Retail that’s where the big Chinese beer comes from. If I understand my history properly the city was ceded to the Germans around the time the Chinese were strong-armed into giving western powers ports for trade (Hong Kong, Macau, etc.) and being German they got right to work building a brewery--and attacking France. I’ll leave the Qingdao stuff for when I actually go, today, is Hang Zhou.
We’re staying at the Xixi Shibajia Hotel, Xixi is the name for the wetlands that this region is built up around, they have been utilized for something like 10000A, originally one lake, it was divided over the years for fish farming and now is thousands of small man made ponds that still produce fish for the region. I was here about a month ago, took a tour and a boat ride around, pretty cool, the most striking thing (that I’ve noticed in most of the
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...of the other end of the hallway in our hotel. places I’ve gone) is the huge Chinese population, there must have been some large migration in the 70’s or something, it’s like the whole country is like one big China Town! The hotel itself is very nice, I’m off for breakfast in a few minutes, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Yesterday we climbed up a “mountain”, it was no Western Cordillera but pretty good. A crazy drive up, 100 meter sheer drops, switch backs, stray dogs, pretty standard stuff really. The whole area is a bamboo forest which appears to be harvested in much the same way they always must have. What looks like families are simply standing on the side of the road lashing hundreds of bamboo (trunks?) that they’ve cut to their bikes/trucks. The film “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” was apparently filmed in these hills (I only saw a “squatting farmer and terrified chicken”, but then I guess my movie would have sucked). There were some lovely waterfalls that I have some pictures of and MONKEYS! Not poor captive monkeys like the one the guy walks on a leash in front of our apartment but monkeys in cages! I stood there with my camera for
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...of my room. In our hotel. a while hoping to get that $10000 footage of the monkey masturbating or sticking his finger in his bum, smelling it and falling off his branch but alas all they did was sign “please help us” in international sign to me over and over again (I only have a firm grasp of American sign so didn’t fully understand). I guess my meeting Bob Saget will have to wait a little longer.
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Nice blob, very witty. As usual it takes me at least two readings to really "get" it. Great pics. Keep up the good work.