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February 1st 2019
Published: February 1st 2019
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Hi All, I really love this festival. Second time I've been able to see some of the most beautiful lights I have ever seen. We stayed in the RongGuang Business Hotel. A big double ensuite room. Clean and warm and with our room at the back peaceful. A couple of nights is plenty of time here. We had visited the fascinating salt well before but we did visit to buy some traditionally mined salt. We ha... Read Full Entry



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Dinosaur in the bus station.Dinosaur in the bus station.
Dinosaur in the bus station.

It wasn't here a couple of weeks ago when we went to Yibin.
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The bomb shelter near the Salt Museum



1st February 2019
Smoke Breathing Dragon

Zigong at night
Amazing photos David...exquisite palette of colours and lights. I've posted some of your pics in our 'Streetscapes' thread in the Photography Forum. Check 'em out.
1st February 2019

Zigong
I saw the name Zigong and had to open this blog. We visited some years ago for the dinosaurs. Discovered prisoners breaking rocks to make road gravel, the world's craziest taxi driver, the bizarrest bank visit, the quietest New Years Eve, the most elaborate rooftops, the American chiropractor who rushed up to us as the first Westerners he had seen in months and one of the premier dinosaur fossil sites on the planet. Ah Zigong. And from your pics Chinese New Year for the Year of the Pig will be a cracker.

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