Sunday time, walking time.
My friends have taken me on a stroll around town.
You can see posters with characters like this one everywhere in this country. Characteristic for Chinese cartoons are a huge head and big eyes. Sometimes big or long ears. Businesses use them to advertise themselves or their services. There are QR codes, which if scanned, give you all the info you need about the business, their services, brands or products.
I'm a dragon.
OAPs playing Chinese chess
Chairman Mao
Yes, the deal is perfect. Two containers and I'll pay in cash. Midnight at the pier? No prob!
Red Army busy texting
Are you with me? Are you with me? (I wanna dance by the water 'neath the Mexican sky, drink some Margaritas by the string of blue light, listen to the Mariachi play at midnight....)
Law and Order
Nanming River, not the Rivers of Babylon
.... and meet me at the back of the blue bus, doin' a blue rock, on a blue bus ....
Ole!
Guiyang version of Big Ben
Afternoon traffic jam (pump up the jam, pump it up, while your feet are stomping, and the jam is pumping, look ahead the crowd is jumpin' ....)
It's not wood what he's putting on his tricycle, Chinese sugar cane. People eat it all the time.
I'm a strong cat, showing you my muscles
Globe
Welcome to Guiyang
Some ancient Chinese characters
The Government of Guiyang built this in October 2006 (This is what it says, just in case you were wondering).
Musicians
More musicians
Public loo
Sheraton Hotel
Mobile kitchen
I'm a dragon
Don't expect any hygiene standards.
Food for the brave and for those with a strong stomach.
Guihatten
Shouldn't there be a snake dancing to the beat?
Balloons
Chimneys? Columns?
I'm a doggy fountain with no water (one of the twelve zodiacs)
I'm a monkey fountain with no water (one of the twelve zodiacs)
People's Square. There's one in every city.
I'm a horse fountain with no water (one of the twelve zodiacs)
From outta space
Police car
The Kite Runner
Afternoon nap
Police car in disguise? Ran out of juice?
Futuristic bridge
Texting
Bei dou (Basket people) having a break. The basket people walk around all day, looking for people who need their help. They will carry everything for you and you pay them as much as you like.
Fruit and veggie vendors having their break
The Grand Theatre of Guiyang. Home of the Symphonic Orchestra.
Government building in the afternoon sun
If you would like to read more by me, here are my novel and my diary from Ar'ar, in the northern Saudi desert. Both available on Amazon as soft and hard copy.
My friends have taken me on a stroll around town.
You can see posters with characters like this one everywhere in this country. Characteristic for Chinese cartoons are a huge head and big eyes. Sometimes big or long ears. Businesses use them to advertise themselves or their services. There are QR codes, which if scanned, give you all the info you need about the business, their services, brands or products.
Some local culture
Guizhou Cultural Palace for Minorities
(As always, videos do not show or play on iPhones and iPads)
Chinese people started about a decade ago to gather in the streets and squares and dance or even exercise. When a recession hit the country, many people lost their jobs. Especially the older ones. They were sent to early retirement with very little pay. In order not to get crazy by staying in the house and watching telly all day, they started gathering outdoors at various times of the day. You see groups of people early in the morning, usually practising Tai-Chi, some even dance and others do gymnastics. After lunch it's the same picture. But most people gather in the evenings. They put a modern version of a ghetto blaster on the ground and move to the beat.
It's not only old people who do this, especially in the evenings you will see many teenagers or people in their twenties and thirties.
If you would like to read more by me, here are my novel and my diary from Ar'ar, in the northern Saudi desert. Both available on Amazon as soft and hard copy.
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