People have been asking for photos, so here they are in the approximate order I took them. Liz and I had time the first day we were in town to walk about in our area (called Xiangzhou...sort of the Brooklyn of Zhuhai, as best I can tell), so these first few photos are as close as you'll get to my first impressions (minus, regrettably, any food photography).
Click on the photos to see higher res versions. At some point I'll get a Flickr account and make this photo thing a little more streamlined, but currently I feel like some content is better than no content
This is sort of typical highrise architecture in Zhuhai. Usual setup on the main boulevards (or "beilu") is a 20-story apartment or office building with a one- to four-story shop of some kind at the bottom. In the pictures above and below, there are large electronics stores at the bottom.
Same building pictured here on the left. Our apartment is in the second set of tan buildings on the left. We're on the other side of the building, 18th floor (more on that in a bit).
Two old men lounge around in the shade of an alley; one of them is some sort of cobbler. It's at least 90 degrees out. Every alley and sidestreet is full of people fixing things (cobblers, tailors, small engine mechanics), cleaning things (carpets, furniture, dishes), and, of course, selling things (clothes, shoes, sunglasses, noodles, whole roasted chickens, dried fish, produce, Chinese medicine, DVDs, juice, tea, and beer). I'll make sure I get some shots of the different vendors and post them here. Important to note is how safe I feel here. Other than the threat of pickpockets and the occasional drunken idiot, I think common sense (no dark alleys at 2am) will keep us very safe.
Silk flowers in a storefront.
A cat leashed to a tree. The angle of its neck makes me think it's giving me the once over.
Banyan trees line one side of Lover's Road. Lover's Road (more pictures to come in future posts) is the main thoroughfare that meanders along the seaside in Zhuhai.
We took a bus south along Lover's Road and hopped off in a beachy part of Jida, a slightly less residential part of Zhuhai than Xiangzhou. We stopped, had some malted beverages and watched the sky turn dark. This little seaside bar (an anomaly in Zhuhai) channels its inner Thailand and places some lanterns inside kayaks planted upright in the sand. I got this photo by putting my camera on our table and telling everyone not to move. I need a damn tripod. More to come soon.
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This is sort of typical highrise architecture in Zhuhai. Usual setup on the main boulevards (or "beilu") is a 20-story apartment or office building with a one- to four-story shop of some kind at the bottom. In the pictures above and below, there are large electronics stores at the bottom.
Same building pictured here on the left. Our apartment is in the second set of tan buildings on the left. We're on the other side of the building, 18th floor (more on that in a bit).
Two old men lounge around in the shade of an alley; one of them is some sort of cobbler. It's at least 90 degrees out. Every alley and sidestreet is full of people fixing things (cobblers, tailors, small engine mechanics), cleaning things (carpets, furniture, dishes), and, of course, selling things (clothes, shoes, sunglasses, noodles, whole roasted chickens, dried fish, produce, Chinese medicine, DVDs, juice, tea, and beer). I'll make sure I get some shots of the different vendors and post them here. Important to note is how safe I feel here. Other than the threat of pickpockets and the occasional drunken idiot, I think common sense (no dark alleys at 2am) will keep us very safe.
Silk flowers in a storefront.
A cat leashed to a tree. The angle of its neck makes me think it's giving me the once over.
Banyan trees line one side of Lover's Road. Lover's Road (more pictures to come in future posts) is the main thoroughfare that meanders along the seaside in Zhuhai.
We took a bus south along Lover's Road and hopped off in a beachy part of Jida, a slightly less residential part of Zhuhai than Xiangzhou. We stopped, had some malted beverages and watched the sky turn dark. This little seaside bar (an anomaly in Zhuhai) channels its inner Thailand and places some lanterns inside kayaks planted upright in the sand. I got this photo by putting my camera on our table and telling everyone not to move. I need a damn tripod. More to come soon.
1 comment:
nice picture, special the last!
greetings from italy Dan:p
Marius
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