Archive for May 22nd, 2008

phenomena

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

day 196: 永登 (yongdeng) = 0km

My hotel sucked - big time.

I think the least I could have expected was some warm water in the shower.

Grrrrr…

So anyways I walked around the place today, went to the market:

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Looked here and there:

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Waited for things to come into place:

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Then I went to a certain “青龙山” (Mount Qinglong):

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Some folks were doing Buddhist chants in the park, so I took another video:

Then I ran into 61-year-old 李先生 (Mr. Li), a retired officer from the PLA:

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We walked around together for a while, he showed me the different temples, many of which were undergoing reconstruction:

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Among all the sites he pointed out, I found this one the most fascinating:

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The old city wall, they say it’s from the Western Han-Dynasty (西汉 206BC - 9AD).

Another thing - many people have been talking about weird colorful phenomena in the sky lately, especially before the earthquakes.

Well, here is a little one that I saw yesterday at 2pm:

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14:04, to be precise.

Soundtrack: Danilo Vigorito - “A 1 Drill”

—total: 2415,1km