Music at the Fu river


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MAP 1 Beijing-Yingxian

5. Beijing-LouCun 06.04.08

6. Lou Cun-YudouCun 07.04.08

7. YudouCun-Laiyuan 08.04.08

8. Laiyuan-Wangzhuang 09.04.08

9. Wangzhuang-Hunyuan 10.04.08

MAP 2 Yingxian-Taiyuan

10. Hunyuan-Dai Xian 11.04.08

11. Dai Xian-Xinzhou 12.04.08

12. Xinzhou-Taiyuan 13.04.08

MAP 3 Taiyuan-Linfen

13. Taiyuan-Pingyao 14.04.08

14. Pingyao 15.04.08

15. PingyaoHuozhou 16.04.08

16. Houzhou-Xiangfen 17.04.08

17. Xiangfen-Hejin 18.04.08

MAP 4 Linfen-Weinan

18. Hejin-Heyang 19.04.08

19. Heyang-Dali 20.04.08 Heyang-Dali

20. Dali-Xi'an 21.04.08

21. Xi'an 22.04.08

22. Xi'an 23.04.08

23. Xi'an 24.04.08

24. Xi'an 25.04.08

MAP 5 Weinan-Hanzhong

25. Xi'an-Mazhao 26.04.08

26. Mazhao-Yangxian 27.04.08

27. Yangxian-Mian Xian 28.04.08

28. Mian Xian-Ningqiang 29.04.08

29. Ningqiang-Guangyuan 30.04.08

MAP 6 Hanzhong-Mianyang

30. Guangyuan-Jianmen Pass 01.05.08

31. Jianmen Pass-Zitong 02.05.08

32. Zitong-Loujiang 03.05.08

33. Luojiang-Chengdu 04.05.08

34. Chengdu 05.05.08

35. Chengdu 06.05.08

36. Chengdu 07.05.08

37. Chengdu 08.05.08

38. Chengdu 09.05.08

MAP 7 Mianyang-Maoxian

39. Chengdu-Dujiangyan 10.05.08

40. Dujiangyan-Miansi 11.05.08

41. Miansi-Maoxian 12.05.08

42. Maoxian 13.05.08

43. Maoxian 14.05.08

44. Maoxian 15.05.08

45. Maoxian 16.05.08

46. Maoxian 17.05.08

47. Maoxian 18.05.08

48. Maoxian-Chengdu 19.05.08

49. Chengdu-Chongqing 20.05.08

50. Chongqing-Wanzhou 21.05.08

51. Yangtze River 22.05.08

52. Yangtze River-Wuhan 23.05.08

53. Wuhan 24.05.08

54. Beijing 25.05.08

55. Beijing 26.05.08

56. Beijing 27.05.08

57. Beijing 28.05.08

58. Beijing 29.05.08

59. Beijing 30.05.08

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English Version 35

Tuesday 06.05.08
Chengdu

I`ve got me a Chinese tel. no. It is amazing that you just buy such a little SIM-thing and then it all works here where I`m not used to be able to read or understand anything.
I phone Hong Yan who I met some days ago with her boyfriend. I`ve been looking forward to seeing her.
Unfortunately she`s busy all week. Can`t leave the school where she`s having meetings for her company. She could have told me. Well we can meet friday night before I according to plan move on.
I go on my bike getting to know the city. It seems as the centre is surrounded by the two rivers Fu and Funan, that join each other down south east somewhere.
Go by the river, it reminds me in some ways of Paris in summer.
 


There is a bit of Paris about Chengdu  The old Chengdu - not for long

 

People sit on benches in the shadows of the trees. Some have gone to sleep, it`s really hot today. There`s so nice and quiet here.
Just now I stand listening to a man playing the erhu one bench away.
He`s playing wonderful. The tones roll like the rivers water to the sea.
It`s the sound of the old China I hear - standing in the new.
Just beside China Pride rises its 200 m`s to the sky. Some kind of TV-tower probably - the new China.
I keep listening till he stops playing - his vibrato goes right to my heart. Nobody else seems to notice. I don`t understand. Are they deaf?
I find the old quarter behind the new Shangri-La Hotel. There`s not much left. It`s "like in the old days" as I saw it not so long ago, was it in Ningjiang? Wonder when it`s completely gone?
 


Chairman Mao is not fashion any more - but still there Mix Hostel, just a humble place - but nice

 

At first there seems only to be one street, but after finding one alley I find more. I turn down one that seems a dead end, but when I peep into what I think is some ones private courtyard, I look out at Shangri-La that stretches its more than 30 stories to the sky.
That`s what I would call a crash between cultures!
Beside lies Bentley Chengdu. There`s just one car in the window. Not so many can afford such a car. (but some can!)

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