day 135: 彬县 (binxian) = 0km

Just like I had promised myself: I didn’t do any walking today.

Instead I slapped on my blue slippers and took a slow stroll around town:

This pagoda is 彬县 (binxian)’s landmark. People here call it 彬塔 (bin pagoda) and it’s originally from the Northern Song-dynasty (北宋 960-1126).

They’re fixing a large central square around the thing, and one of the dudes working there asked me to take his picture:

Other people didn’t really ask for it, but they got their picture taken anyhow:

See, I was actually looking for food, and not hunting for curiosities, but then I noticed these guys tossing inlays into a crowd outside of a shoe-store:

And then there was the “Xi’an Foreign Language University” ad:

Notice what it says in English right below the large yellow characters?

WTF, an ad for a language school??

Whatever, I found a small restaurant to sit down and read for a while, then I walked back and took some leisure snapshots on the way:

…a market street:

…stuff to snack on:

…and the evening light playing with the power lines in front of my hotel:

Would it be fair to assume that anything not boring is automatically speacial?

Well, today was a quiet day.

Not boring - quiet.

Soundtrack: Jimi Hendrix - “All Along The Watchtower”

—total: 1726,2km

Posted on Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 10:30 pm ;Filed under rest.