This
morning we had a chance to say hello to our new guide – Anja. Yes,
she is from Denmark, Næstved – and she's spent the past couple of
weeks trying to get a truck across India and Pakistan and into China.
It obviously didn't go according to plan since she just joined us
about 4 days later than supposed but she is here now and ready to
guide us through to Beijing and Mongolia. She's been a guide in China before
so it is a welcome change to the previous guides who could mostly
rely on trip notes and assistance from our fabulous Chinese guide... ehhh, translator.
Not the
best morning for Mikkel though. Bad stomach most of the night so he
stayed in most of the day, but Malene went on the guided tour to some
of the Pingyao landmarks including the prison, the bank, temple and a
couple of other buildings.
Good
guided tour with some interesting insight into banking in the old days when banks were about money and there was proper private banking and guest rooms in the bank, ancient Chinese
torture equipment in the prison as well as a lot of statues in a temple showing how the afterlife would
deal with you if you didn't behave when you where living the human
life. Interesting and very explicit. Who wouldn't attend the temple a
couple of extra times during the week if there was a display showing
how you would be split down the middle if you didn't behave.
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| A tower in the town |
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| An old bank |
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| Torture instrument |
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| Torture instrument |
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| Torture instrument |
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| Nice surroundings in the prison for the guards |
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| Kate with her Chinese zodiac in a temple |
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| Malene's Chinese zodiac |
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| Zodiac alley |
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| Scary afterlife. For those who didn't behave well in real life |
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| They're thinking of the elderly here |
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| Temple |
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| Almost correct sign |
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