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2010-09-24
Apparently my long walk of two days prior was neither long enough nor far out west enough, so I hopped a subway to 八宝山 and then walked east to near the east third ring road. Saw a few neat things along the way. Wore my crappy converse shoes again, so my feet were (again) in complete agony by the end of the day. Really need to do something about that! |
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Lots of parks, green places, and even a few cemeteries this far out!
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Saw these nice flowers and started to take some pictures...
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... then saw the massive moth hovering around them getting nectar. It's as big as a hummingbird!
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Rawr!
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.. says the scary, vaguely effeminate lion.
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Terrible air today, so I stuck to the more zoom-y lens to take picture of people and things.
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Again, you don't see traffic like this very often here.
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There was some sort of big amusement park area or something.
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Not sure what it is about authoritarian countries that requires creepy, semi-abandoned amusement parks.
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This kid was NOT cooperating.
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Couldn't figure out why the cab driver was pointing at me all the time...
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There's a census coming up in November. This asks everybody to support the endeavour!
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More canals, perhaps outside the third ring road or so. I started losing track of where I was after a while.
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Lest ye forget this is a huge urban jungle.
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