tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50647767280825568962024-03-19T02:55:11.201-07:00Sharing ChengduKarenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-28801019150852177112013-08-24T17:06:00.000-07:002013-08-24T17:06:05.170-07:00Lyncy & Lily<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Shortly after arriving in Chengdu, Kirk was asked to give a talk in our church Sacrament Meeting on missionary work. This was surprising, as the Chinese government forbids us from doing any proselyting towards Chinese nationals, including distributing any literature. Each week before our meeting, the Branch President reads the restrictions under which we are allowed to meet as foreigners in China. We were strongly counseled to let our friends and family know that we were NOT on a formal mission in China, and that when missionaries DO go to China, it will be through the 'front door'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our friend, Jake, has a son who plays soccer with local youth, and one of his teammates was a boy named Regan. Regan's mother was interested in Christianity. She was raised in Chengdu, but moved when she was 28 to America where she married. She changed her citizenship and held an American passport, thus making her a 'foreigner' in China. Because she was considered a foreigner, it was 'legal' for Jake to invite this woman, Lyncy, to attend church with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lyncy and Regan came to Sacrament meeting and liked what they felt. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was the Relief Society
teacher and was very careful to explain things so that she could understand what I was teaching, and, more
importantly, feel the Spirit of the Lord in our meetings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lyncy spoke to me the next week and told me that she really liked the way I taught. She wondered if she could invite her friend, Lily, and they could come to my house and I could teach them more about 'the God'. Lily, also holds a 'foreign' passport (from Hong Kong) and speaks limited English, but Lyncy speaks English quite well. How thrilling it was for me to have this chance to preach the gospel...and in China! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lyncy (on the left) and Lily came to my home and asked me a few questions. I taught them that they were daughters of a Heavenly Father, and that His Son came to earth to redeem them from their sins and bring them eternal life. They had been to other Chinese Christian churches, but they said that they wanted to find the right church, where the people acted in their lives the way they preached in their Church. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I showed them a photo book with 35 years of our family's photos, from our wedding picture to the wedding picture of our youngest child, Mark, and all the weddings and grandchildren born in between. They poured over the book and afterwards said they could see that our family lives "with much harmony", and that I must be a very good mother. A few weeks later, Lyncy invited me to lecture to a large group of her friends (about 40 people) and teach them about American parenting styles. The Chinese are suffering with "Little Emperors", children born under the one-child policy who are growing up spoiled and feeling entitled, with no respect for others and little self-discipline. With an interpreter, I taught from my experience and from the Family Proclamation. There were many questions as parents struggle to raise their children with moral strength and character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lyncy and Lily continued to attend church, and we arranged for a Mandarin-speaking returned missionary in the branch to teach them in their own language during Sunday School. The more they heard, the more they learned, the more they delighted in finding The Church they had been seeking for 28 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lyncy took a trip to Hong Kong where she was able to go see the Temple and the distribution center. A series of events that happened while she was there taught her that God was mindful of her and wanted her to live as taught by the Latter-day Saints. She bought every piece of church literature printed in Chinese and came home with a suitcase full of reading material, and an excitement about having her prayers answered. She had discovered the gospel she had been seeking for all these years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She began inviting me to different dinners to introduce me to her friends. She wanted to share what she had discovered. She was disappointed that she couldn't invite her Chinese friends to come to church with her, so she sought out the Chinese Branch of the Church and attended there once so she would know where to send her Chinese friends. (There is a Chinese branch and a Foreigners branch, but they are forbidden to meet together.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Over the course of the next few months, she and Lily grew in testimony and commitment, changing their lives to live as the Savior taught. They wanted to be baptized before we went back to America and invited Kirk to perform the ordinance. Kirk learned the baptismal prayer in Chinese and was blessed and honored to baptize Lyncy and Lily into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Regan and Bob can't wait until they are baptized, and have been helping their mothers keep the commandments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I was asked to speak at the baptismal service, and I testified that I don't think I came to China to teach English--I think the Lord sent me there to meet Lyncy and Lily and share with them the glorious plan of salvation. It reminded me of the scripture that I chose as my "mission" scripture: Alma 26:36-37</span><br />
<i><br /> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yea, blessed is the name of my God, who has been mindful of this people, who are a branch<a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26?lang=eng#" id="footnote65" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=26&noteID=36b"></a> of the tree of Israel, and has been lost<a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26?lang=eng#" id="footnote66" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=26&noteID=36c"></a> from its body in a strange land; yea, I say, blessed be the name of my God, who has been mindful of us, wanderers<a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26?lang=eng#" id="footnote67" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=26&noteID=36d"></a> in a strange land. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a class="bookmark-anchor dontHighlight" href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="37"> </a><span class="verse"> </span>Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful<a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26?lang=eng#" id="footnote68" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=26&noteID=37a"></a> of every people<a class="footnote" href="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/26?lang=eng#" id="footnote69" rel="http://www.lds.org/scriptures/footnote?lang=eng&volumeUri=bofm&bookUri=alma&chapterUri=26&noteID=37b"></a>,
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thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The mountain peaks loomed above, but we also drove higher and higher until we were on top!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These interesting poles were part of the bridge at the town of Huanglong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Soon we were on top of the world at the level of the high mountains! We followed a long series of switchbacks up over the pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The cable car ride gave us some beautiful views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the top, we stopped for a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains. Gorgeous!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Unfortunately, this time of year is still early for the water to be at full flow. But the forest and mountains were still picturesque and we enjoyed the hike.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the top of the valley is the Multi-colored Pond, and we could finally see what all the fuss was about! Fabulous, even in low water season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Again, we felt like maybe we would see similar sights in Tibet--tall mountains with snow and prayer flags. It was beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Huanglong Temple, an ancient Buddhist temple, is divided into different buildings. The Middle Temple has a sign that reads differently from three different directions to accommodate the Buddhists, Taoists and Confucians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Depending on where you are standing, you can see the characters of the different signs. Cool!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The altitude is 12,000 feet, so some people experience altitude sickness. They have these "oxygen bars" along the pathway if you need to toke up on some air! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This turned out to be our last major excursion from Chengdu in China. What a way to end our tour!! The spectacular scenery of the past three days will always stay with us as one of our favorite places in the world!</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-24369997944521024642013-07-21T14:57:00.004-07:002013-07-21T14:57:46.146-07:00JiuZhaiGou - Day Two<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We got an early start for day two in JiuZhaiGou, grabbed breakfast from the fast food shop called Dico's and caught a bus up the valley before hoards of tourist groups. Today we went up the Rize Valley side to the Primeval Forest, an ancient woodland. An interesting outcrop here is called Sword Rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The misty clouds that covered the mountaintops yesterday were gone, and we could see snow-shrouded peaks towering above the valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Again, we had to take a bus part of the way back down because the boardwalk was closed. We stopped at Grass Lake and hiked the rest of the way to the fork. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to legend, JiuZhaiGou was created when a jealous devil caused
the goddess Wunosemo to drop her magic mirror, a present from her lover,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Panda Lake is so named
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Someone threw something edible into Panda Lake attracting all these fish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We absolutely loved this area--so beautiful. We decided this is probably one of the top 3 most beautiful places in the world that we have seen! Definitely the prettiest nature we've seen in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We decided we wouldn't take the time to go to Tibet, so we were happy to have these beautiful, tall mountain vistas in this Tibetan-like valley.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our weather report before we left said nothing about sunshine, so I didn't even pack a hat. I needed to protect my nose from the high-altitude sunshine! A paper shield works well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The floral display at the entrance to the park was a nice spot to take a rest and relax from the day's hiking. The "Western Restaurant" at our hotel turned out to be closed, so we went to the Star Cafe in town and had a "Hawaiian pizza" which was made with a bisquick-type crust, ground meat (ham?) and fruit cocktail with odd-tasting cheese. We decided we would need to go to Peter's Tex/Mex as soon as we got back to Chengdu! The gorgeous park made up for that disappointment. What a glorious place--we loved it!</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-39237135308290367332013-07-12T14:45:00.003-07:002013-07-12T14:45:50.748-07:00JiuZhaiGou - Day One<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">JiuZhaiGou (Nine Village Valley - say "joe tsigh go") is a national park in the northern Sichuan province. There are nine Tibetan villages in the beautiful valleys with snow-covered peaks reaching 14,000 ft high. We were told that autumn is the best time to go because the leaves are changing colors, but we missed it then, so we went in early spring. We decided the gorgeous fresh, spring-green leaves were just as appealing as fall colors would be, and we loved it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We took a 40-minute flight from Chengdu with our friend, Don, and landed in a snowstorm! Yikes! We had packed for a rainy weekend! So much for weather.com!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The drive to our hotel in the village was nearly 2 hours from the airport. We saw plenty of interesting Tibetan sights along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Without a tour guide, it's hard to say, but this looks like a prayer flag junk yard! Or so many people put prayer flags here that it is just overwhelmed. Who knows? Prayer flags have a life cycle and when one becomes old, it is often replaced by a new flag in the same place. Perhaps this is an especially auspicious place for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We left our luggage at our hotel land went to the park entrance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are two forks in JiuZhaiGou valley, so today we started by taking a bus ride up to the top of the Zechawa valley side. At the end was a spectacular lake called Long Lake.</span><br />
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<a href="http://youtu.be/FEr2y4bqPeM">Long Lake in Zechawa Valley</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The blue of the lake is akin to some of the lakes at Yellowstone or Havasupai. It was so clear you could see down to the bottom. The air was fresh with beautiful, misty clouds shrouding the peaks. It was colder than we had expected, but we were able to bundle up.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> There were too many people for a peaceful, relaxing time, but we are pretty used to that in China. We hiked in a line of people down the trail to the next lake called Colorful Pond or Multi-colored Lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had hoped to hike along the boardwalk all the way, but it was closed. Looks rather precarious anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were several of these Buddhist stupas in the park, a monument which houses Buddhist relics or ashes of monks--a spot for meditation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These people are not just dressed for the tourists--this is how they always dress. My favorite accessory is the cell phone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tibetan prayer flags are used to promote peace, compassion, strength and wisdom. Tibetans believe the prayers and mantras
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The hiking was so glorious. It's such a delight to be in clean air. You can't imagine unless you've lived in pollution. Nature is always refreshing, but especially so here in the high mountains of China. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They had ecological toilets which automatically put a clean liner on the western-style seat for each patron. The liner was part of a biodegradable bag which was then hauled away when full. It seemed so simple and easy, so much nicer than a typical outhouse. That is the only kind of toilet from China that I think Americans could appreciate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I think this one was called Rhinoceros Lake, or maybe Tiger Lake. The contrast between the blue and green was breathtaking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Logs have fallen into the lakes, and greenery grows from the small tip that sticks out above the water. It looks like a fairy land. The water is so clear, you can see to the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Buddhist texts and sacred mantras are written and placed inside the wheels. When they are set in motion, the prayers are automatic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The water flowed through the middle of the trees making a huge river/waterfall filled with greenery. I have never seen anything like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is Heyezhai Village. Lots of shops to explore, but we were more interested in the scenery. The colorful paintings and decoration on the buildings were beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Back to our hotel for a Chinese dinner, then early to bed so we could start out fresh and explore more the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Do you remember the cute baby boy panda I blogged about in November? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, he grew up! This is ChengShuang at 8 months old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I didn't expect this when we first went to the Panda Base, but Kirk saw the tourist group lining up to go hold the panda, and quickly decided I needed to hold one. It used to be pretty cheap, but then the movie "Kung Fu Panda" came out, and the price went through the roof. Kirk said this is my birthday, Valentine's, Christmas and anniversary present for the next three years! It was pretty fun to hold him--he was pretty docile with that honey-dipped bamboo to chew on. He was so soft and furry. Wish I could take him home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were not as many active pandas this time, so we were glad we had gone in November. We hadn't seen the Swan Lake before, so we went by to check it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The panda is the symbol representing Chengdu, and often, China itself. You see evidences all over town, even on the hood of the taxi cabs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So it was nice of Kirk to give me this gift. I can add it to my list--in my life, I've been able to:</span><br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-58453809282806573072013-06-25T18:48:00.001-07:002013-06-25T19:22:20.631-07:00Sunshine in Chengdu<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What do Chinese students do when the sun comes out? They hide from it! Kirk asked a student to play tennis with him one beautiful, sunshiny day and she said, "No. The sun is shining. I don't want to turn dark." NOW you KNOW that China is on the opposite side of the world from America, because Americans spend money on tanning salons to make their skin darker. Apparently, the Chinese think it makes them look like peasant farmers when their skin is darker, so they don't want any color. As a matter of fact, I had a hard time finding a face cream that didn't have bleach/whitener in it! Seriously! So on those rare days when the sun comes out in Chengdu, so do the umbrellas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These umbrellas are the cutest things--they are covered with bling, including sequins, lace and other frills. They are UV Protective and come in all colors. I bought one for Shanna, my daughter-in-law who lives in Tucson and spends hours out in the sun watching T-ball games and swim meets. America should pick up on this fashion item. They are really cute.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But the cutest thing is when the girls ride on the back of their boyfriend's bike with their umbrella open. It looks like something from a romantic movie. Fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It wasn't sunny this day, but friends of ours loaned us their electric scooter to go for a ride. So we got to be in our own romantic movie!</span><br />
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Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-1481940378859057082013-06-21T08:12:00.000-07:002013-06-21T08:12:26.131-07:00Suzhou - The Venice of the East<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Suzhou (say "sue-joe") is a 2500-year-old city, famous for its beautiful gardens, stone bridges, canals, moat and silk production. It is a top tourist destination, and we did have big crowds. We started by visiting the Lingering Garden, built during the Ming Dynasty, used to encourage healing for recovering patients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The amazing limestone formations are particularly interesting. We have heard different tour guides tell us about these unique stones that come from the bottom of a lake. One told us that they were only for use in imperial gardens, but we have seen them in many places in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In these gardens, even the trash receptacles are made of porcelain. (One is for recycling.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some of the pavilions had lovely instrumentalists playing soothing music on period instruments. We enjoyed pausing to listen to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The famous Japanese bonsai sculpted trees actually originated in China--called penzai. They are so lovely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see why it's called the "Lingering Garden". You'd like to spend all day here enjoying the lovely plants, flowers, stone work, and water features.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tiger Hill is another landmark in Suzhou with its famous all-brick "Yunyansi" or "Cloud Rock Pagoda", which leans like the tower of Pisa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">From this angle, you can really see the lean. The tower was built of all brick in 959AD and weighs 600 tons! We weren't allowed inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are legends and stories associated with the site. T</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">he Wu King, He Lv, was buried on the site and 3 days later, a white tiger appeared squatting on the hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Legend has it that there are 3000 swords and other treasure buried underneath this small pond beneath the bridge. No excavations have been done in order to preserve the stone pagoda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Humble Administrator's Garden, built in 1509, is another famous classic Chinese garden in Suzhou</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The park is 5.2 hectares large and has more of the familiar pavilions, rock formations, flowers, ponds and beauty. Wish I had this in my neighborhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This garden is the largest and most beautiful (according to some) of the gardens in southern China. Too many people were here today to enjoy any peaceful solitude, but we did catch its potential and enjoy the weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After dinner, we went for a walk with Alan & Kim Malan to the ancient town built along a canal. It is a popular tourist area, and the lanterns were lit in beautiful colors and shapes. The year of the snake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All over China, we see shop owners crushing peanuts with huge mallets like this one, then they make a brittle candy out of the peanuts. Makes a perfect set up for a silly pose!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next morning, we started out with a boat tour on the grand canal. We sailed back underneath the bridges where we had walked the night before. It was beautiful weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Silk production is still in full force in Suzhou as it has been since ancient times. The process is fascinating and we enjoyed our tour of the silk 'factory'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Each single strand is connected to the spindle above and they turn around, unwinding the long thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Boiling the cocoons makes them separate easier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The fabric is created using the old punch card method, where the pattern is in the cards fed into the loom. Amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course I had to go in the gift shop to buy some silk products--a duvet cover and pillow cases, some "popcorn" silk blouses, eyeglass cases, scarves, etc. Susannah Goudin, my silk-producing pioneer ancestor from Italy, would be pleased to know that I appreciate her art. </span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-18643217221693806932013-05-26T04:36:00.000-07:002013-05-26T04:36:04.676-07:00Xitang Ancient Water Town<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some sights along the way just have to be recorded. This bus driver is having a rest. Where to recline? In the luggage compartment, of course!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pigs on their way to market. Wouldn't PETA have a fit? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A blurry photo from a bus, but here's a duck farm! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And I burst out laughing at this restaurant when they served the rice in a Pyrex pie plate like the ones I have. Now pie is one thing we've never been served by the Chinese. I really wonder why they have this pie plate and where they got it--in a restaurant even! It was the only one I've seen here, and it made me dream of a delicious, fresh apple pie with pecans served hot with a scoop of vanilla........ahhhh.........</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Between Hangzhou and Suzhou is the ancient town of Xitang (say "she-tong"). The series of canals through town and the old buildings along the banks make a scenic destination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were here on a Chinese National Holiday (May 1 is like our Labor Day), so the narrow, tiny streets were PACKED with tourists. We had to shove our way through, and couldn't really look in all the interesting shops because we had to keep up with the tour guide. I wouldn't want to get lost!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tiny, narrow streets are symbolic of this ancient town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Even with the big crowds, this beautiful town had such charm. I love imagining ancient life, and people's daily lives. </span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-81107829417210490352013-05-24T07:44:00.001-07:002013-05-24T07:44:23.925-07:00Hangzhou<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our trip to see some of the "water towns" in China began in Hangzhou (say hong-joe). As we drove in from the airport, we saw these strange roof ornaments on many of the large homes. These spires represent the wealth of the home's owner, an advertisement especially useful in helping to find a husband for their daughter. One ball means they have half a million, two means a million, and three balls means two million or more (RMB). A little over 6 RMB equals 1 dollar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked down to the last remaining tower of the old city wall and enjoyed the views of the rivers along the way. We met with some of the other BYU Teachers and headed out for McDonald's. Honestly, that Big Mac tasted fabulous!! It's amazing how our taste buds have changed after eating 10 months of Chinese food!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the evening, we walked down to West Lake, famous in China because of the Legend of the White Snake. In front of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was a fountain show and lots of people gathered to enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across the lake we could see the Jingci Temple (on the left) and Leifeng Pagoda (on the right) lit up on the hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the water was a dragon boat with brightly lit roofs. The weather was nice and we enjoyed being outdoors. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the morning, we took a boat trip out on West Lake. There wasn't any rain, but the sky was hazy and the lake was grey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The details of the dragon boat were more visible in the daytime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Leifeng Pagoda was originally built of stone and wood in 975 to celebrate the birth of the son of Qian Chu. The 2002-built reconstruction is of steel and copper, made for tourism. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Bai Suzhen, the transformed White Snake, was imprisoned here according to legend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">'Three Pools Mirroring the Moon' r</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">efers to the three pear-shaped pagodas arranged in a triangle in the water. The pagodas are around 2 meters high with hollow interiors. The belly of
each pagoda has five circular holes, into which lamps or candles can be
placed. These pagodas are represented on the back of the 1 RMB note, and are lit during the Mid-Autumn Festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Broken Bridge is where the White Snake, in her human form, met and fell in love with the mortal, Xu Xian, when he loans her his umbrella in the rain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is called the Baochu Pagoda originally built in 963 as a place to offer prayers for the safe return of Qian Chu, the last king of Wuyue, when he was gone for years to central China. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After our boat cruise, we walked through the surrounding park with lotus ponds, bridges and beautiful vegetation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Truly a very beautiful place, and a refreshing, lovely day in the park. These flowers remind me of the ones from Jeanette's wedding. Happy memories! </span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-66863554049161869322013-05-15T03:19:00.000-07:002013-05-15T18:23:44.222-07:00Luodai and the Fake Great Wall<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kirk stayed home to play tennis, but I went with Don and Crystal (from Church) and a bunch of her co-workers to the nearby town of Luodai. And, yes, I had to sing the CCR song "Stuck in Lodi Again". It's a real tourist trap of a town, and it was the weekend so there were so many people, but we had some fun. The ancient town streets are filled with interesting shops and unusual sights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There was a noodle restaurant which had a huge coiled noodle in one pan and boiling water in the other. I love the entertaining show!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These little plastic containers each had a goldfish or a turtle inside! Notice how they are hung at eye level for the little folks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> There are many Chinese of the Hakka minority in Luodai. There is a museum in town preserving some of their history. We went inside to have a look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This is quite the bridal suite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The entrepreneurs have come up with a transportation like none other! Sit on the front and they'll give you a ride around town. Check out the rugs, flowers, parasols, and even the chicken hood ornament! Not exactly like the former rickshaws. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These bamboo sections are filled with a sticky rice filling on a stick. After cooking, they remove it from the bamboo, roll it in something sweet(ish) and you eat it as you walk along. It tasted pretty good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This crazy outfit is made from the fronds of some tree. There is always some interesting thing to draw your attention to a shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I'm pretty sure these are Hakka women. They have a unique look about them. I love the different attitudes and expressions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apparently, this "Fake Great Wall of China" was built for those who want the Great Wall experience, but not the expense of going to Beijing. In my opinion, steps are steps, and it doesn't matter where they are--they're challenging!! And it was hot today, so I was really wilting. But my fun honeycomb hat helped keep the sun off, and it was cool because of all the holes. Plus, the wind couldn't blow it away, and it collapses into a small, vase shape. Cute!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The grounds in front of the temple were littered with trash, the "peelings" from the incense and candles. The incense smoke was thick and irritating, as so many people were here. The cluttered look did not bring a very reverent atmosphere to the temple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Off in the mist (pollution) is Chengdu. It was nice to spend the day up here where the air is clear!</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-76789172800010177092013-05-12T07:16:00.000-07:002013-05-12T07:16:33.224-07:00Earthquake<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">April 20, 2013 - 8:02a.m.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This morning, as we were eating breakfast, I looked towards the window at this view. The plants suddenly began to shake and sway, like they were on the coastline with a stiff ocean breeze blowing through. But it wasn't just the plants moving, it was our chairs beneath us, and the rumbling started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now, I'm not superman, and I was debilitatingly terrified of earthquakes when we lived in San Francisco. But in my mind, I thought, "Here it is. I've been expecting it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When we first learned we were coming to Chengdu, I starting googling and most of what I found was about the terrible earthquake in 2008 that killed around 88,000 people. So I thought, "I probably dodged the earthquake in San Francisco, only to find it in China." With all the things to fear about living in China, an earthquake was only somewhere down that list. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kirk dove down the stairs, as our apartment is only one flight up. I stopped to grab my purse and the key to the apartment. I even put on some shoes, but was still in my pajamas. As I was leaving, I could hear things falling in the apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were the first ones outside, and soon we were joined by several other people from our building and neighborhood. The dogs were barking like crazy, and people were yelling loudly and talking excitedly. I soon went back inside (much to Kirk's protesting) to get our passports and bottles of water. After talking and comparing ideas for about 20 minutes, we realized that although aftershocks would certainly come, they would likely be less powerful and it didn't look like any buildings were coming down.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went back inside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I immediately wrote our children to tell them we were safe, and we put together a bag of food in case we needed to leave again. We did feel many aftershocks (I recorded at least 10; official count is over 4000!), including one during Church the next day. Saturday night, our university liaison came by our apartment to warn us that another major quake was expected during the night. I'm not sure how/why they were predicting that, but they suggested sleeping with a beer bottle balanced upside down on the bedside table so that it would fall over and wake us up in the event of a major event. Although many people in Chengdu chose to sleep outside in the park in a tent, we slept fine in our bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The bad news at our school was that several students actually jumped from their dormitory windows trying to escape. Some were severely injured. Also, 6 people in the city of Chengdu died jumping from their apartment homes in fear. They have since conducted an earthquake drill on campus, and there are posters and articles instructing the students what to do as well as donations being collected for the victims. We were greeted a week later in front of our teaching building by students who were passing out these green ribbons in memory of the victims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As I felt the earth quaking, and the aftershocks trembling, it gave me a sense of the spirit of the earth. According to scripture in Doctrine & Covenants 123:7, "the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity". D&C 88:87 "For not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man..." D&C 63:20-21 "...He that endureth in faith and doeth my will, the same shall overcome, and shall receive an inheritance upon the earth when the day of transfiguration shall come; When the earth shall be transfigured..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The prophet Mormon declared: "And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in diverse places." China is definitely one of those diverse places.</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-35772009685739995582013-05-07T22:28:00.001-07:002013-05-07T23:11:30.062-07:00Three Gorges Dam<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We sailed halfway through the third large gorge on the Yangtze, the Xiling Gorge, during the night and docked at Mao Ping. It was a 45-minute bus ride through town, over the bridge and up to the site of the Three Gorges Dam.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The tour guide on the boat said she has NEVER seen this temple on the hill, the Huangling Temple, because it's nearly always too cloudy. We were blessed with a beautiful sunny day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric power project in the world. It's 2335 meters long and 185 meters high. It cost about $28 billion to build, beginning in 1994. The only part left to finish is the "elevator" which will lift ships over the dam. There will be a cost for using the elevator, but it will be much faster than the lock system currently in use which is free of cost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove through town back to the ship for a farewell lunch then drove down along the lower part of the Xiling Gorge to our airport.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our "elevator" taking us down to the ship--what beautiful views! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The drive along the river was, again, gorgeous!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A ship-building yard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A lovely cruise, great friends, beautiful weather and amazing scenery! Now head back to Chengdu and "sprint to the finish".</span>
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-30354744655997865932013-05-04T07:11:00.000-07:002013-05-04T07:11:57.332-07:00Shennong Stream<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We docked at the town of Badong and transferred to a ferry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We cruised underneath the new highway being built to link Shanghai with Sichuan Province. We were directed to go inside the boat as we went under it to avoid any falling debris! It's costing $63 million per kilometer according to our guide!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We came to the narrow end of the gorge and transferred this time to a "pea pod" boat for a 5-man-powered trip up the narrowest section of the gorge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It took several boats to load all of us from the BYU China Teachers tour group. We couldn't help but get into the spirit by singing "Row, row, row your boat" in a round. Then we had to challenge our friends to a race. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our guide was of the Tujia minority. These people live along the stream and in the mountains nearby. She led us in a native song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I sat on the left side of the boat and got soaking wet because the paddler behind me kept splashing the water on me! It was lots of fun, though, and we saw some beautiful country. This stalactite looks like the head of a dragon, hanging out over the water. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was definitely a Disneyland experience, only without the OSHA safety requirements! It was lots of fun, and the men worked so hard to row us. Kirk asked how much money they made for each trip. He was told about 35RMB each ($5.60). They only had one trip on the day we went, as it was the off season. They had to climb up the trails over these high mountains and hike for about 2 hours to get here from the village where they lived. Then they had to hike back after our 50 minute boat ride. Can I ever again think my life is hard?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went back to the ship and enjoyed our Captain's Farewell Banquet. The waiters were surprised that 4 tables full of BYU teachers refused the champagne!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The evening entertainment was the Victoria Selena Cabaret, another decent show put on by the crew, including dragons, a fan dance, a magician, a Sichuanese face-changing act (but the masks failed!), a Chinese instrumental group, and other dancers and acts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were a couple of audience participation acts, and at the end, they got everyone (who was willing) up to dance. It was a regular disco party, including the Macarena, YMCA, the Electric Slide, and Oppa Gangnum Style. Guess who was one of the last two still dancing? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> ShiBaoZhai or "The Red Pagoda" hugs one side of the "Jade Seal Hill" rock island. We could barely see it through the mist, but it has a temple at the top built in the 1700s, and the monks used to climb up to it on a chain. A 9-story wooden pavilion was added in 1819, and 3 more stories in 1956. They had to build a tiny dam around it to keep the rising Yangtze River from encroaching on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We docked at Fengjie, an ancient town existing for at least 2300 years. This town is at the Kui Gate "entrance" to the first of the three gorges. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Part of the Ming Dynasty ancient city wall has been relocated above the waterline. It's been relocated six times! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The water level rises and falls because they have to drain a lot of water in order to make room for the spring run-off. This amazing escalator system built in sections makes it possible to put the stairways down to the water level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This beautiful site is the entrance to the Qutang Gorge. It is pictured on the back of the 10 RMB note. We were so excited that the sun was shining. Our guides told us that usually you have to buy postcards if you want to see it because it's so often misted over or rainy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This fort protected the gorge entrance and as recently as the Qing Dynasty, heavy iron chains were strung across it. Inscriptions on the walls include one that exhorts the Chinese people to resist the Japanese invaders during World War II.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Now the monkeys are manning the fort--look closely on the cannons and you'll see them sitting there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you look in the center, a bit to the right, you can see one of the famous "hanging coffins". The Bo minority felt that the closer to heaven a person was buried, the better, so they put them up in these fissures of the cliffs. This has been going on for 2300 years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This rock formation is a rhinoceros looking back--takes some imagination!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Local fishing boat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some animal life--goats in the middle and a water fowl at the bottom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It is quite a hike to get down to the river as you can see by the switchback path here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Qutang Gorge is only 5 miles and didn't take more than half an hour to go through. Later we entered Wu Gorge, the second in the series. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It started raining, so we didn't have the clear views we had enjoyed in the morning. But the mist is also beautiful in itself and looks like so many of the lovely Chinese paintings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The geography is so interesting. Look at the slope to these hills. The farmers have nice homes and terraced fields. What a lovely location!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This mountain "shelf" is even more dramatic as it slopes down into the water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see a tiny "finger" of rock jutting up in the valley between the 2 sharp peaks on the left and the round peak on the right. This formation is known as the Goddess Peak. The story is that a young maiden from heaven, Yao Ji, stood watch over the fishing boats and stayed so long that she turned to stone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Beautiful misty mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We took this trip during the Chinese Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Days. There were tombs along the river route, including large, elaborate ones like above, and smaller ones that had been decorated with red flags, ribbons and other decor for this holiday.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This is also a time to send offerings to the departed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Trackers" is the name for the men who used bamboo ropes to pull the ships upriver through the tumultuous gorge in former days. It was back-breaking, grueling work and the ropes wore ruts into the rock faces from the friction. This monument remembers them and their hard work. (Yes, they're nude--they jumped in and out of the water so often that clothes were a nuisance.)</span><br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-25318498894846752752013-04-27T17:05:00.001-07:002013-04-27T17:05:13.759-07:00Cruising the Yangtze River<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We boarded the Victoria Selina at 9:00p.m. and were soon sailing out of Chongqing. We went out on the deck to see the lights of the city.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Looks at us--the Presidential Suite!! (Actually, ours is the door on the right.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had cabin service at least twice a day, and the staff was really friendly and helpful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At 6:45a.m., we got up and went to the Lounge for our Tai Chi lesson with none other than Dr. Hu. (Say that out loud.) People laughed when he was introduced. We made sure that he understood what a cool guy Dr. Who is to BBC TV watchers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our first port of call was Fengdu, one of the towns that is now submerged. A new town has been built on the opposite side of the river for the displaced citizens (now numbering 100,000). Fengdu is still the famous Ghost City, and we disembarked to explore the Ghost Temple and the "King of Hell".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No, that's not the "King of Hell". It's a bad hotel idea. This is the "heaven" side of the mountain, and someone had the brilliant idea to build a hotel that looked like an emperor. However, after building this much, people convinced him that no one was going to want to stay in a hotel that close to the Ghost Temple. There is still a lot of superstition in China. So here stands another of the many empty buildings in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the Eastern Han Dynasty, two officials from the imperial court, Yin Changsheng and Wang Fangping,
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produces the term "Yinwang" meaning the "king of hell." This began the reputation of the area sometime in AD 25-220. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, a large temple was built here depicting life in hell. The "Ghost City" was mentioned in a classic Chinese tale, "Journey to the West", and its reputation was set. Boat captains didn't even want to dock nearby because of their fear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian, the complex is actually a series of temples. We first stopped at the Temple of Heng and Ha, the Buddhist door guardians. Our tour guide led us in a "Heng--Ha" shout to invoke their protection as we visited the Ghost City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lovers hold hands on this central bridge and step exactly nine steps (an auspicious Chinese number) to cross it in order to insure eternal love and happiness. Previous editions of travel guides say that this is the Modoribashi or "Nothing to Be Done" bridge, and if you are wicked and try to cross it, you will fall into the water. Sounds like they changed the story so that people would be more likely to buy the photo they take of you as you are crossing over. This is the first of three "tests" you are supposed to pass on your way to the netherworld to determine your fate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This is the "Saying Goodbye to the Past" Tower with no staircase inside, because only the spirits go in it to look back on their life and say goodbye for the last time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the top of the mountain is the Black Temple, the only black one in China. This was not destroyed during the Cultural Revolution because even the Red Guards were afraid of spirits. The walls are painted black, and the third test is carried out in front before you pass inside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Inside this cement box is a round stone that sticks up in the middle. You have to balance on one foot while staring at the characters on the wall above you for 3 seconds (I read somewhere it used to be 3 minutes--maybe they shortened it to allow each of the million tourists a turn). If you don't fall down, you are "good" and will not be sent to be tortured for 500 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Inside the Black Temple, your fate is determined. The "King of Hell" is more like the Greek god Hades; not a devil or evil spirit. To Chinese, the social structure in the underworld is exactly like that in the real world, so you must go through a bureaucracy of officials to receive your judgment. First you pass 8 "policemen". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And by the way, did you know he's married?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you are innocent and virtuous, you will have a happy eternity. However, if you are wicked, you will receive a punishment commensurate with your crime. The Chinese imagination has gone wild in considering all the ways to torture a person for 500 years. I'll only post a few to spare you the gruesomeness!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OK, that's enough of that!! It's a good thing there was so much dust on everything. I don't know if I'd want to see them all "fresh-looking"!!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It was quite a freak show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> We went back to the ship and set sail through the rainy drizzle. I had a nap, then we listened to a lecture about the river and enjoyed some time with friends. The Yangtze is actually called Chiang Jiang (Long River) by the Chinese. It's the third longest in the world, behind the Nile and the Amazon, and the busiest shipping river in the world. Over 400 million people live along its 3960 miles of banks. We cruised along 410 miles of it.</span><br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-74039350672761744512013-04-24T21:17:00.000-07:002013-04-24T21:17:03.774-07:00Chongqing, China<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you ever eat Chungking Chinese food that came in a can? That name was an earlier translation of Chongqing (say "chong (with a long "O") - ching"), the largest city (33 million population) IN THE WORLD! It's a beautiful metropolis at the confluence of the Yangtze River (Chiang Jiang, as the Chinese know it) and the Jialing River.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We took the high speed railroad from Chengdu and in 2-1/2 hours, we were in Chongqing. The countryside along the way always interests me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">See the pagoda on the hill?</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That's 121 miles per hour! Wheee!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went downtown to the Great Hall of China, the first building constructed under the new government when The People's Republic of China was formed. It looks similar to the Temple of Heaven we visited in Beijing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's just a big convention-type center inside, so we didn't go in. We did go into the Three Gorges Dam Museum across the plaza. The museum is to educate the people on all the reasons the dam project was a good idea, and how willingly the 1.3 million people relocated when their homes and lifestyles were flooded underneath the water. (Tongue in cheek.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We visited the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">General Joseph Stilwell Museum
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Japanese - WWII). We were quite interested in this, as Kirk's father worked on
building the Burma airstrip and once flew to China on a fuel run.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stilwell was Chief of Staff under Chiang Kai-shek in what the Chinese call the World War against Fascism.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This motorcycle looks like something Harold would have ridden (Kirk's Dad). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The "Hump Flight Route" over the Himalayan Mountains went from the airstrip in Burma, that Harold helped build, to Chongqing. It was a pretty dangerous mission, but crucial to the war effort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Across the street from Stilwell's home is the Flying Tigers Museum, remembering the volunteer pilots who absolutely saved China from Japan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Flying Tigers, under General Claire Chennault, destroyed more than 2600 Japanese aircraft and sank 44 warships. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The James Doolittle team led the bombing of Tokyo in 1942. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">American tourists are the ones who visit the Stilwell and Flying Tigers Museum, so the locals have set up an art center to help defray the costs and bring them an income. We were given a demonstration by this local painter. I had to get his picture because he works with his tongue sticking out a bit, just like my Brian. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I succumbed to the beauty and bought one of these paintings on a banyan leaf. Mine is a beautiful Chinese woman with a scroll.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove to the ancient town section of Chongqing called Ciqikou. It's a major tourist area, and we weren't interested in shopping, so we went down to the river. Along the way, we met a couple of students who offered to show us the way. They stopped to buy some fish (a huge bag full) to release into the river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We were surprised to see many people with beach umbrellas along the riverside. They weren't really swimming there, but seemed to be enjoying the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our friend, a Buddhist, stopped to pray here at the site in the edge of the cliff overlooking the river. Then we went down to the river's edge and he held a turtle and prayed, reciting the names of all the Buddhas. When he finished, he released the turtle into the water. Then he emptied the bag of fish he just bought. He believes that because he recited the names of the Buddhas and released these formerly captive animals, they will be able to return as a human in their next life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked back through Ciqikou and saw some interesting sights and shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had to take a photo of the sculpture. This is how they toilet train in China. The mother sings a little song while the child "does its job" and they are trained to respond to this song. The children wear split pants, as I've shown before, and it seems to work really well for them. You will often see this "pose" by real people when traveling in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They have the cutest way of doing cotton candy. They use different colors of candy floss and create flowers and other delights. See the pink, yellow and white? Good idea!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove back downtown to the center of the business district where we had a really great dinner and enjoyed being with our BYU Teacher friends again. So much to catch up on together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This sign was on a pillar beneath a bridge--no firecrackers! Only in China!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Downtown Chongqing. Our tour guide said he has never seen the top of that skyscraper because it's usually fogged over. The nickname for Chongqing is "Fog City". In the summer it can be 116 degrees with 94% humidity. Glad it was nice when we were there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove down to the Yangtze River to board our cruise. Oh boy! The buildings had wonderful light patterns on them and it was all so festive and fun. Can't wait to set sail!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our ship, the Victoria Selina, is on the left. We had to hike down the bank to it, as the water level is low this time of year in preparation for the spring run-off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next blog: Cruising the Yangtze River</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-6486688870141553552013-04-18T22:30:00.001-07:002013-04-18T22:30:27.622-07:00Stone Elephant Lake (Shixiang)<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We finally got a free weekend to go to Stone Elephant Lake. We went with a dentist and her husband, Rachel and Michael, who Kirk has been working with at the Dental Clinic. We had to take a bus ride an hour south of Chengdu, and the tulips were pretty far spent already, but we still saw some beautiful sights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of course there is a temple on the hill, this one 1000 years old, called the Shixiang Temple (Stone Elephant). There is a large stone elephant statue in the temple, but we didn't climb up to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I felt like we were in Louisiana floating through the bayous with all the trees coming down to the water level. It was a very intimate, small lake, and the water was pretty clean! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Some of the prettiest flowers were the tiny wild iris--and no one had to plant them or tend them. Look at the beautiful colors and design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the bridge we could see from the boats earlier. It was a fun little ride and beautiful scenery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And of course, we had to see at least ONE stone elephant. Kirk is giving him peanuts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we drove back home, we went past farms where the main crop was tea. There were also delicious orange orchards (we tried some). We saw some Chinese cemeteries, and single graves that were in the center of the field with a large pole sticking out of it with a flag on top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There were nets in this pond, and we think they were growing seed pearls, as that's a big product in this area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">off this bicycle cart.....</span><br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-56357131857846763732013-04-17T21:48:00.000-07:002013-04-17T21:48:29.710-07:00Wangcang, China<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have a student, Vivian, who lives in a suburb of Guangyuan, China, called Wangcang. She invited Kirk and I to visit for the weekend, along with her roommate, Wendy. We took the 4 hour bus ride from Chengdu and arrived in time for lunch with her parents. Her father is a director in the local Communist Party and we were not allowed to photograph him. They were very welcoming to us and we had a real China family experience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vivian's parents don't speak English, so we are always trying to get Vivian to translate for us. She sometimes does! We never know if what we are trying to say gets across. After lunch (a local Chinese specialties feast), we went to the hotel to rest, another Chinese tradition, like a siesta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The family has a 22-yr-old driver, actually a nephew, who usually drives, but Vivian's mother drove us out to visit her old home town, and home to the Fourth Front Red Army when the Communists organized here as they prepared for part of their Long March.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Many of the shops were closed up because this was still part of the Chinese New Year holiday, but the flags are all still out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The carvings in the wooden panels on the walls and doors show Red Army soldiers. The people here loved the Red Army because they took land from the landlords and gave it to the people, they taught the peasants to read, there was no pillaging, raping or killing, and they lived peaceably and shared all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The town has a traditional Red Army bread, so we had to try some. It was pretty dry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">An important part of the Red Army social network was the Theater. Every night, performances were given for training and promoting the Red Army agenda. The museum showed clips from some of the performances and shows. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">THE POSE for the theater, according to Vivian.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Here I'm on stage.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The musicians had some unique instruments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The Army was here from November 1934 to April, 1935, when they evacuated the town. It was amazing to see how developed and prosperous the town became in that short time. The locals welcomed them, as they were much more humane than the Kuomintang Nationalists at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vivian's mother took us down an alleyway to her childhood home where we met her parents. Vivian's grandfather had joined as a volunteer in the Red Army when they were here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked around the old town area with the town square monuments, sculptures and local folks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The year of the Snake. (See the little snake on the "window"?) The banners on the posts and lintel of the front door (red, of course) are to drive away evil and bring good luck to the home in the new year. I ponder where this tradition may have started....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Every possible patch of ground has a small garden on it. The vegetables all look so green and beautiful. The Chinese almost never eat the vegetables fresh, however. Everything is cooked or dried. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As usual, I love to stop and say hello to the children. Grandparents always encourage their little ones to say hello to the "foreigners".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After another meal with Vivian's parents in a private restaurant dining room complete with a TV to watch the soaps and a private WC, we went to try a Chinese staple in evening entertainment--KTV.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The entrance is covered in brightly-colored lights and looks like a posh Las Vegas night club. These karaoke bars are very popular in China and you see one on every street. It's not like karaoke in the US, though. Everyone has a private room and you order food and drinks which are delivered to you. Then you queue up your songs on the big-screen TV, eat, drink, and sit on the couch to sing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They had me go first, and I stood in front to sing, but apparently, you're just supposed to sit on the couch. Everyone took turns singing, even Kirk and Vivian's mother. We were quite full from dinner, but the food kept coming and we gorged ourselves!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People had seen us go into our room, and soon we saw camera phones being held up to the small window in the door taking pictures of us. Everyone wants a photo of the foreigners! KTV was another China experience we had been wanting to try, and it didn't disappoint!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next morning, our young driver sped like Mario Andretti up the canyon where we visited the Cangwang Gorges Geological and Ecological Resort. WE WERE TERRIFIED!! I just knew my children would never find my body or know what happened to me. The roads are narrow with no guardrails, curving around mountain cliffs, and the driver would honk, as if that would stop the trucks from being in the center of the road. We slid back and forth in our seats, praying constantly. Fortunately, Vivian got VERY carsick which taught our young driver a lesson. Our ride back down wasn't so harrowing. That was truly the most frightening thing we've done in China.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Once we got to the park, though, we had a thoroughly enjoyable 4-hour hike through some of the most beautiful country we've yet seen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The highlight of the hike was the Qianlong Dragon Eighteen Ponds, or Eighteen Dragon Pools, or however you want to translate it. It's a series of pools running into each other that made the "namers" think of a giant dragon. There are two rocks that look like his eyes wedged inside the cavern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The ramp at the left is man-made so you can get down inside the cavern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This was really so beautiful, and the smooth rocks made it look like you could just float down from one to the next like Slide Rock in Sedona. We didn't try that, though it was tempting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We next hiked down the Longtan Gorge to the beautiful Longtan Waterfall. Stairs, always stairs, on Chinese mountains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Who knew we'd find the "Celestial Valley" in China? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We saw some animal life along the way. There was a herd of wild mountain goats, and Vivian came running back to us as we were behind them on the path crying, "We can't go this way! There is some animals blocking our path!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vivian is terrified of wild animals, so I had to go ahead to try to shoo the cow and her calf away. They weren't very willing to move, so I told the girls to just walk quietly and don't run. It was more than they could handle, but fortunately, the cattle were placid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The beautiful yellow rapeseed (canola) plant colors the terraced hillsides. Also, the white-blossomed fruit trees show spring in the air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although farmers are on the lowest class on the totem pole in China, and no one wants to look like a "peasant", the homes on the hillside are large and spacious, and the beautiful mountains would be a lovely back yard. Multiple generations live in the homes, but they aren't crowded together like the apartments in town.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went to an obligatory Hot Pot dinner (you haven't been to Sichuan province if you haven't had Hot Pot), where bubbling, flavored broth and oil is in the center of the table and all sorts of vegetables, meats, fish and other unknown foods are dumped in, extracted with chopsticks, dipped in more oil and spices and consumed. Everyone eats out of the same pot. I tried duck blood. Yeah, I couldn't believe it either. It actually didn't taste too bad, but knowing what it was didn't help. Kirk had gotten food poisoning the day before we came to Wangcang, and the unusual foods here didn't help him recover. He tried to look like he was eating, while hiding things in his napkin. After dinner, we were invited to Vivian's paternal grandparent's home where we were served more snacks and taught to play mahjong. Vivian's parents play every day. We ate sunflower seeds and sugar cane, and the custom is to spit the shells and fibers onto the floor. Kirk said, "Who cleans it up?" Vivian said, "Grandma will." The mahjong table is electronic and it sorts and sets up the tiles, pushing them up through a trap door around the edges. Then the dice is rolled by an electronic gadget, and when the game is over, the center circle of the table rises up as everyone shoves their tiles into the inside of the table for them to be sorted while a second set arises out of the trap door. It's quite something. It plays sort of like Rummikub. Vivian's father saw I was learning to play and said it would be a contest between China and America. When I won, I started singing "O Say Can You See". They didn't get it. Because it was the last day of the Spring Festival/Chinese New Year, we were served the traditional glutinous rice balls, a sweet, gooey dessert with a fruit-flavored center. They tasted better than some "desserts" we've tried in China. We were the only ones eating, though, so I wondered if no one else like them! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After a farewell lunch the next day, we went to see the ancient Buddhist Temple in town. You are supposed to close your eyes and walk towards the character on the wall until you touch it, for good luck, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vivian was going back to Chengdu after having spent the holiday at home, so she packed up and her parents came with us to the bus station to say goodbye. They handed us a couple of Chinese knots with bags of good luck and prosperity hanging on them as a souvenir. What a fun experience to spend the weekend with this lovely Chinese family and see into the everyday lives of a Chinese family.</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-13012132943657124142013-04-12T00:08:00.000-07:002013-04-12T00:08:18.883-07:00Chinese Lantern Festival<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The official end to the Chinese New Year occurs on the 15th day of the first lunar month and is celebrated with a Lantern Festival. In former days, the lighted paper lanterns were carried to the temples by the children and some had riddles on them to solve. Today, families reunite to eat glutinous rice balls together. People also released lighted balloons into the night like you see in the movie, Mulan. Chengdu has celebrations in a couple of parks with huge fabric lanterns shaped like people, characters and objects. We were told that Jinli Street would be a good place to see them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pandas are the symbol of Chengdu--I love the cowboy hat on the father! Notice the one-child family group.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a HUGE several story lantern in the center of the area. On the front is an LCD screen with movies or something showing on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The area had a carnival atmosphere with several merchants' stalls selling snacks to eat and toys for the children. We were interested in this cracker that was being made with a meat grinder!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This man has a pretty amazing pipe. Hopefully by the time the smoke gets to his lungs, it's lost some of the nicotine!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Popcorn is a snack I can enjoy in China. They make it like kettle corn with sugar on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These lanterns are animated at night, so we were sorry that we couldn't stay to watch them. They had one that was all about "Gangnum Style" and had animal lanterns doing the famous dance from the viral video. Oh well, maybe next year.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Another sculpture made from tea cups and saucers. They're so amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Transformers are big in China, so they had a patronizing lantern display for the kids.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here again were rows and rows of stalls with food and freshwater pearls and toys and other odds and ends to buy. This salesman was really getting into the spirit of things! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">People watching is always an extra benefit of any China adventure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What an outfit!! A tutu and high tops! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The next morning, we looked out our window and saw this lantern stuck in our tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We think it was released by the Merrills in Kansas and flew over here, like the Wizard of Oz's balloon. </span><br />
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<span id="goog_1758787258"></span><span id="goog_1758787259"></span><br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-44113620706639928222013-04-10T21:12:00.001-07:002013-04-10T21:12:50.470-07:00Shu Ming Tombs<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The royal family in 1550AD buried their dead in the Shu Ming Tombs in Chengdu, along with at least 500 statues of glazed warriors, horses, dancers and musicians. Recently, some of these tombs have been excavated, and they are open to the public.....if you know where to go. We took a cab with our neighbor, Don, to the park where the tombs are located. We walked through the park where there were hundreds of mahjong tables, a few tea houses and a lovely koi pond.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We wandered through the park, and as we passed one building, we could hear Pres. Obama's voice in English. There was a group of students listening and taking notes. We wondered what that was all about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The weather wasn't yet warm, but Kirk wanted to wear his plaid shorts he bought in Cambodia. As we walked past another community building, a group of women came out and pointed and laughed and scolded him for being too cold. (We are still teasing him about his crazy shorts.) Fortunately, one of the women had lived in America and spoke some English. We asked her about the tombs, and she took us to a caretaker's office where a man came out, sold us a ticket, and unlocked the museum for us to see the artifacts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The clay figures are terra cotta, like the famous warriors in Xi'an, but these still have the colored glazing and are, of course, much smaller. They were each unique, and very interesting. The "museum" was just a room of a building, and there weren't any fancy displays, but at least they are available for public viewing....if you know where to find the man with the key. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As we walked back through the park, we went by the building where the students had been listening to Obama. A couple of adults came out and Kirk chatted with them, and they invited us in to speak to the students. They said they were having an English class, but students were also giving some kinds of motivational speeches. The students would pump their arm in the air and shout and someone in back played raucous music for a few moments over the speaker as they all cheered for whoever spoke. (Was this an Amway meeting?) One of the walls had a banner that said something like "God wants for all of us to be happy in the end." We wondered if it was a Christian group. When Kirk got up to speak, we were in for a surprise!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(Maybe they're just cheering for his shorts.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We spoke to them a little bit about ourselves, why we were in China, and our families back in America. We always get a huge response when they hear we have FIVE children and TWELVE grandchildren!! We each took a turn speaking, and Kirk made me sing "Oh, My Daddy's Got a Fiddle", which they all clapped along with. (That's one of my Dad's classic tunes.) We had to stay for another 20 minutes after speaking because EVERYONE had to get a photo with the foreigners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So ends another adventure in Chengdu. We are hoping we won't be deported for inciting unrest among the students or attending a subversive movement rally. </span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-26218097056943047392013-04-02T01:55:00.003-07:002013-04-02T01:55:44.380-07:00A Walk in the Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> After spending 4 weeks traveling, we were happy to spend some time closer to "home". We still want to get out and see what there is to see, so every weekend we try to discover something new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon in Chengdu walking to the Flowing Water Park. The trees are blooming which adds such beautiful color to our otherwise drab city life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked through a former Amusement Park, and were definitely "amused" at the roller coaster (or part of it) still there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A nicer sign translation than "Keep Off The Grass".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> As usual, the most interesting part of the walk are the people you see, and the things they are doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are kites in the sky every day over every park. They really are a Chinese staple. And it's older men flying them--only occasionally will you see a child fly one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This vested, hatted gentleman has a board balanced on a round cylinder and was sliding back and forth, back and forth, swinging his arms out and in. He was really good at it and kept his balance with no problem. The Chinese get their exercise in very creative ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a Flowing Water Park along this river, but my camera batteries ran out when we got there so I don't have photos yet. It is an ecological wonder where a series of pools (anaerobic precipitating pits) filter the water from the river and clean out the impurities, making it good enough for bathing by the time the water comes out at the bottom. It's a highly touted example of how to naturally clean up the pollution in the rivers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This television tower is one of the first landmarks we learned to recognize so we knew we were in our neighborhood. I have finally gotten to where I can usually find my way around town within the first 3 ring roads. There is so much construction going on that Chengdu will have a completely different look and feel in the next 5 years. They are building new and tearing down old. There are construction cranes everywhere you look. And they work every day of the week, so things change quickly. It's amazing the difference in just the 7 months we've been here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had seen signs advertising the Oceanarium, so we were eager to check that out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Apparently, the fish haven't been here for a long time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of my favorite city sights is the children. Their grandparents are so proud of them and want them to say "hello" to us. Sure wish I could take my grandchildren on my walk in the park!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Closer to home, the bushes and trees along the Shahe River have put out fresh, clean leaves that look so bright and spring-like! It makes everything more beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are also some beautiful magnolia trees on campus with the most beautiful flowers.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This tree is in front of our apartment building. It looks so beautiful with flowers. The Chinese have other uses for the trees, as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This man is hanging cabbage out to dry. It shrunk smaller and smaller each day as it dehydrated. See some is also on the sidewalk (to the lower right)? Where people walk, and dogs (and children) pee? He left it out there for 3 days, each day gathering it into a smaller group until the last day it was on 4 large hangers. Not sure what he's going to do with it now, but I'm sure it involves eating it somehow. No thanks (although I've probably eaten things just as scary!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another common sight and sound are these spinning tops. They whine so we can hear them from our apartment! The people, usually men, use whips to whip them up, making them spin and making a cracking sound. The tops are different sizes, and they do this every day in the park just across the river from our apartment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After a refreshing day in the park, I'm ready to go back to work. I have three children, Penny, Mike and Cindy, who I tutor. Their mothers want them to practice English, so I finally get to use my Early Childhood Education major! They are cute little kids and we have a fun hour together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes the exotic travels are the adventure, and sometimes, it's just taking a walk in the park.</span><br />
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<br />Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-81475909528190748492013-03-29T05:15:00.000-07:002013-03-29T05:15:02.936-07:00Angkor Wat - Temple City<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After lunch and a rest from the heat of the day, we returned to see the 12th century masterpiece of classical Khmer architecture, Angkor Wat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The moat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Built by King Suryavarman II as a funeral temple for his father, Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument in the world.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It's even bigger than the Forbidden City in Beijing.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It is surrounded by a moat symbolizing the ocean, a wall representing the edge of the world, and 5 towers representing Meru's 5 peaks (home of the devas in Hindu mythology). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The temple is oriented facing west, in contrast to all the other temples of its time. It is also dedicated to Vishnu, rather than the usual Shiva. It was built between 1109-1152AD and continues to be a significant religious center, although now it is Buddhist, rather than the original Hindu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a wide roadway leading to the entrance with the moat on both sides. The 7-headed serpent greeted you, and the walkway had some curious stones in it! They have rebuilt half of the roadway and left the other half "as is", so you have to walk carefully.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Buddha in the entrance looks like King Kamehameha with his lei.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After entering the complex, there is a large cruciform terrace leading to the central structure.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> There is a beautiful reflection pond to one side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> This long wall was covered in bas-relief friezes depicting Hindu epics, mostly battles. There are other friezes depicting a historical scene and the 32 hells and 37 heavens of Hindu mythology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These warriors have the faces of monkeys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are lots of long, cloister-like hallways, and the temple is in much better shape than most of the others, but it isn't as intimate and "jungley", and thereby, not as much "fun" to explore. Plus, there were some major staircases to climb! The highest tower is 65 meters!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Kirk's head is peeking out the widow above. This devata has red coloring, so I wonder what colors might have been here in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When there are tourists, there are local entrepreneurs. These folks are all dressed up for photo shoots with any willing employer. It does add a fun flavor to the visit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can see the change of color in this sculpture, showing some of the restorations that have been done. There were places where stones were piled in heaps to the side. It is an immense project, but it seems to be making progress. What a delight it is to be able to go inside and "feel" the essence of these amazing temples. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">THE place to go to watch the sunset is to the temple of Phnom Bakheng. This hilltop temple has a beautiful, misty view of Angkor Wat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A Hindu temple, dedicated to Shiva, it was built at the end of the 9th century (2 centuries before Angkor Wat) by King Yasovarman. It faces east and has a pyramid form consisting of six tiers. At one time there were 108 small towers, but most have now collapsed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With Angkor Wat in the background, you can see the sets of stones laid out, waiting for reconstruction. The stone lions standing guard are also a big feature of this temple. This is one of the most threatened monuments here because everyone wants to climb up to watch the sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had a REAL hamburger and a REAL frozen yogurt for dinner. It may be a poor country, but we like the food we can get here better than at Chinese fast food places! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The next day was New Year's Eve. (We went to Hanoi, then Cambodia, then Saigon, but I blogged all of Vietnam together, so that's why I already blogged about the new year in Vietnam!) In the lobby of our hotel was a fantastic ancestor shrine, complete with a roast pig!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Out in front of the hotel, they were burning money!! Those ancestors should have enough to buy a new hat! It's actually fake money which is for sale in all the shops. Why do they use American bills? I guess their Cambodian Riel isn't worth much on the other side either. We saw other ancestor shrines out in front of the shops as we wandered down to the market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> It's always entertaining to see what is for sale, and how they are selling it. Also, I love to say hello to the sweet little children. I sure miss my grandkids!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It feels like someone is lightly scratching you with their fingernails. Maybe some of you have sky-dived out of a plane, or bungee-jumped off a bridge, but this has to be the bravest, scariest thing I've ever done! One fish was a little more aggressive and bit a mosquito bite I had, making it bleed. Yeah, I now probably have every blood-born disease known to man. But it felt good and the mosquito bites didn't itch after that! I topped it off with a pedicure. Not exactly like my favorite spa back in Tucson. And neither Linda nor Shanna was here to chat with me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I enjoyed looking at artifacts in the Angkor National Museum which fortunately had English captions. We should have gone to see these things before we went to the ruins! It tied up everything together, though, and gave me an appreciation and more knowledge of this ancient culture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the airport, we noticed they are doing their best to help teach people about the perils of smoking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We went swimming in the hotel pool, and were refreshed to head out again in the morning for more ruins!</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because Angkor Wat faces west, they like to take you there in the afternoon so you won't have the sun behind it for your photos. We passed by interesting sights as we drove out to visit more ruins near Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Another outdoor shower for the kids. (Down below the road in the center.) Can you believe there are no guardrails on the ramp? Some of the ramps are just loose boards. And it doesn't look like the house can be supported by those small wooden posts. Scary. These are even worse living conditions than the townships I saw in South Africa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is a "nicer" part of town on the other side of the bridge. The city is moving a lot of the "stilt" houses along the river out of town to clean up the image for the tourists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Tuk Tuk drivers have a hammock to hang up in their vehicles so they can have a nap while they wait for the tourists to come back. Smart idea! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove by the Pre Rup Temple, which was dedicated in 961AD and used for cremation of the dead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I continue to be amazed that we are allowed to walk through all these ruins, especially when you see the condition of the remaining structures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These harnessed elephants on the corners are free-standing, and taller than me! There are still about 1500 wild elephants in Cambodia. We didn't see any of those!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Interestingly enough, they call this specially-designed lower step the "moon stone". Sounds familiar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We drove past Srah Srang, a lake used fot the "Royal Baths" and ritual bathing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Did you see Tomb Raider? Parts of it were filmed in the amazing Ta Prohm Temple. We rented the movie after we got home, just to say "We've been there!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ta Prohm was built as a Mahayana Buddhist Monastery and University. King Jayavarman VII built it in honor of his parents in 1186AD, and the main image (Prajnaparamita--perfection of transcendent wisdom) is modeled after his mother. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Look how the front arch is almost falling off. They have done lots of restoration, but the jungle is trying to take over. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The temple site was home to more than 12,500 people (including 18
high priests and 615 dancers), with an additional 800,000 souls in the
surrounding villages working to provide services and supplies. It was also recorded that the temple amassed considerable riches, including gold,
pearls and silks. It's fun to imagine as we walked through the ruins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These amazing trees are why Ta Prohm is so famous. The trees have just "taken over" and the people on the restoration committees don't want to remove them because of the mystery and beauty they have created. It's almost as though the jungle has "swallowed" the temple. It's pretty incredible. And the trees are so young compared to the temple, but yet they are SO TALL! The roots are fantastic, climbing over the walls. It's unbelievable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Look, Ma. I made a temple with your face on it!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The "real-life lizard" on this rock added to the jungle feeling of the ruins. What a bright, red tail! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But as is often the case, sometimes the people are the most interesting thing to see. No, we're not in China, but I'm sure this woman is Chinese because this is exactly the kind of outfit they would choose to wear site-seeing in the ruins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Citadel of Chambers, or Banteay Kdei, was a Buddhist Monastery built in the 12th century and is the same style as Ta Prohm. Although dilapidated because of faulty construction and poor quality sandstone, it has been inhabited off and on over the centuries by Buddhist monks, even as late as the 1960s. After the Khmer reign ended, it became overgrown with vegetation which was cleared away in the 1920s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This pretty lady is called Apsara. She's found all over these temples in different forms, many times in this "dancing" pose. She is a female spirit of the clouds and waters in Hindu and Buddhist mythology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The top half of this large figure is called a Garuda, who is a Hindu bird, and beneath is a Naga, or dragon, who is a Buddhist figure. The country has gone back and forth between the two religions, so they try to keep everyone happy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So much beauty and amazing architecture. And we haven't even seen the Granddaddy yet! </span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-34133844324688256182013-03-23T05:41:00.001-07:002013-03-23T05:41:07.713-07:00Tonle Sap, the Great Lake of Cambodia<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We had lunch in a French Restaurant with delicious food. I ate so much because they serve so much and I have to try it all. Then we went to Artisans d'Angkor, a workshop and school set up by the French to help peasants learn a craft to support themselves with. They show you the workshops and the people in them, then take you to a huge gift shop where you can buy it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are posters in the workrooms that teach dental hygiene! We were surprised, but they are truly trying to help these people to better their lives. It seems like quite a worthy cause, although we didn't purchase the expensive items in the gift shop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We saw many interesting sights as we drove through town to the Tonle Sap. Along the Siem Reap River, houses were built on stilts and the people live in shocking poverty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Notice the shrine on the porch. It's the nicest thing they own. I don't know if it's only out there because of the New Year holiday or if they keep it there all year around. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Notice the man taking a shower in the front. This looks like a shop, as things are hanging up for display. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We arrived at the Siem Reap River dock, climbed into old, dilapidated tourist boat of questionable seaworthiness, and took off down the river to Tonle Sap, the Great Lake of Cambodia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Notice how they made a trailer for hauling these long poles! Clever! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sharing the river with us were several other watercraft, so low in the water I thought they'd be swamped. The water looked like cocoa, thick with mud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As soon as we took off from the dock, other boats pulled up alongside us to try to sell their goods. One man put his little girl (about 7 years old) on the boat with a basket of sodas. Two boys who rode with us on the boat went around and started giving backrubs to everyone (who would let them) and asking for pay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The river smelled of fish paste and diesel fuel, and it was lined with trash on both banks. Our guide said nearly 1000 boats per day ply these waters which keep things churned up. After a long ride, we finally came out into the lake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The guide told us that most of the people living here are actually Vietnamese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> These cages on the side can hold chickens or pigs, and underneath the houses is a "fish farm" where they trap the fish and keep them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Crocodile skin is legal to harvest and there are shops in town selling bags, purses, belts, shoes, etc. Here they had a little pen for the tourists to see (and people to throw trash in!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These three little beggar boys (one with a snake) were poling around in these washtubs by the tourist boats. If no one paid attention to them, they'd have sword fights with their poles. They just bobbed around, hoping for a handout. Each had a little plastic cup that they used to bail their tub once in a while. Apparently, this is their daily routine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is my Pulitzer Prize Winner. Someone call National Geographic. See the sleeping child hanging in the hammock? And the baby is nursing while mother poles her canoe. She came up alongside and begged. There's a rock in the back of her boat for ballast so she can sit on the very front. Amazing. Horrifying. Shocking. Saddening. Pitying. Crazy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We got back on the boat and went upriver, passing the school gymnasium and classrooms. The village is mobile and changes their location according to the tides of the Mekong River which flows into the Tonle Sap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We even passed by a boat full of children--the river school bus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tomorrow: Angkor Wat</span>Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659428790590301597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064776728082556896.post-7470743648480700802013-03-22T05:06:00.001-07:002013-03-23T06:42:45.192-07:00More Ruins at Angkor Thom<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Baphuon Temple, built in the 11th century, was at the heart of the ancient royal city of Angkor Thom. Originally dedicated to the worship of the Hindu god, Shiva, it was later remodeled in the 15th century to include the largest Buddha sculpture in Cambodia (no longer there). It is a 3-tiered temple, approached by a long, raised roadway which looked like it may have once had water in a moat. It was a very steep climb up to the higher levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This temple joined the southern enclosure of the Royal Palace and because it was built on sandy fill and was of such immense size, it was unstable throughout history. The most recent renovations were finished in 2011. And we're allowed to climb all over it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It looks like it was built out of sugar cubes. It's amazing that it still has any stability at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We walked through the U-shaped structure known as the Terrace of the Leper King, named after a 15th century sculpture of Yama, the god of death, found on the site with moss on it, making it look like leprosy. It is thought by some to have been used as a royal cremation site. It had wonderful sculpture in the rock faces of the walls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Right next to this ruin is the Terrace of Elephants, so called because of all the elephants marching along the front of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The 350m-long Terrace of Elephants was used as a giant reviewing stand
for public ceremonies and served as a base for the king's grand audience
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYyRFgiR294">Terrace of Elephants</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The grounds were covered with people trying to make a living from the tourists--selling food, hawking clothing, rides on an elephant, rides in a tuk tuk, beads, scarves, toys, and ornaments made from plant leaves. I got some cheap (both meanings apply here) clothes and some ornaments for my Christmas tree. There were also many children who begged--nothing for sale, just an outstretched hand and some mumbled words that their parents had taught them. It was sad to think of this miserable life for the children, but things are getting better for the Cambodians, and hopefully their standard of living will improve with the better economy. It sure tugged our heartstrings. You want to help them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Next stop: Tonle Sap and the floating village </span><br />
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