[Leica] Chongqing

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Tina, Ric, Douglas
Thanks for looking. Ric, you cant escape skies like that in any urban area
I visited in China. As I mentioned, I did not see the moon on the trip save
that first night in Shanghai, never saw the stars at all, and the sun
through the haze two or three times. Thank heavens we do not have to put up
with that level of pollution day in and day out.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> 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" <
> psm-1857 at googlegroups.com>
> 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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