[Leica] Chongqing

[Douglas Barry]

You seem to have had a lot of rain there, Jayanand. Interesting to see the 
giant pandas in a zoo. The enclosure looks strong enough to be a nuclear 
bomb proof!

Still think Bird Garden with its disconsolate Hollister youth and Red are 
the best in the trip series.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "PSM" 
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Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2014 4:43 PM
Subject: [Leica] Chongqing


> Our cruise on the Yangtze ended in what is the world's largest city by
> population, estimated at 32 million people, China's wartime capital,
> Chongqing. We just had half a day there before we caught a flight to 
> Xi'an,
> so did very limited sightseeing. My first impression as we made for the
> pier was a city with way too many bridges across the Yangtze, including
> this one - finished but unused and not opened to traffic for some strange
> reason. It was dreary, overcast and drizzling throughout our stay, and the
> smog had turned the atmosphere into a funny (probably mildly sulfurous)
> yellow:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1223.jpg.html
>
> The only tourist place we visited was a renovated centuries old complex,
> the Huguang Guild Hall, where migrants from South China lived and worked
> during the Qing Dynasty, the final one, which ruled China from 1644 to
> 1912. It was a majestic complex, but it was hard to say which bits were 
> old
> and which were reconstructed:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1229.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1238.jpg.html
>
> As is usual with me in these old places with dozens of virtually identical
> rooms, I got bored and went back to photographing people:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1804.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1809.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1817.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1840.jpg.html
>
> The only other place we visited in Chongqing was the zoo, which is one of
> the premier breeding centres for the critically endangered Giant Panda.
> Normally, I hate posting animal photographs from zoos, but I figured that
> chances of any of us of seeing a Giant Panda in the wild was precisely
> zilch, so I went ahead anyway - it was feed time when we landed up, and
> they were enjoying their brunch of bamboo:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1792.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141016-1798.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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