Part lion, part dragon, part reindeer, all awesome. Random beast at Wenshu Temple.Some people have lives so exciting and friends so attractive that they can compose blog posts out of mere photographs. Despite my seemingly exotic address, I can rarely do the same, but as I am freshly returned from Chengdu, I do have some nice pictures to share with you good people, although not the time to narrate them.
文殊院 - Wenshu Temple:
The temple's teahouse:
望江楼公园 - River Viewing Pavilion Park:
(Yes, that's Jessica, dwarfed by the bamboo and unaware of my sneaky picture taking)
Around Chengdu (成都):
Tianfu Square (天府广场) and the Mao statue presiding over it:
Shops in the Tibetan quarter:
Drying meat in the late afternoon light, right outside our hotel window (center, right, and also upper left, but out of view):
Drinking tea at 人民茶馆 in the People's Park:
Immediately after Jessica took this photo, a woman at an adjacent table came over to instruct me on the proper way to hold my teacup and how to drink from it. The anthropologist in me was all that held me back from bitch-slapping her.The tea:
A stray kitler looking for snacks in the park:
That's all for today. Stay tuned for the panda-filled Part 2!
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Photographic extravaganzas (read: spectaculars) are the best!
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