Today we had nothing to do! Honestly, praise God. We woke up at 8:00 and had a late breakfast. We returned to our room and just hung out with Maisey for an hour and then met our guide Kelly for our return trip to Sha Mian Island. We picked up a few last gifts and found a famous statue of small children following a woman playing a violin. There is a gap between the last child in the line and the rest, where many a adopting family have inserted their adopted child into the line. So, not afraid to look like tourist (since we are) we inserted Maisey into the slot for a picture. Not realizing she’d take one look at the bronze children and be terrified. Oh well so much for tradition.
We then went to the Qing Ping market just across the canal on the “mainland.” This market has literally thousands of stalls scattered over a number of streets. The focus is mainly on medicinal herbs and various vegetation. But you’ll still find plenty of places proffering weird and wonderful merchandise including dried seahorses and scorpions, not to mention a few tiger claw vendors who continue to warily carry on their business from the streets. While we did not see the tiger claws or any live scorpions, though we looked hard, the market was really cool. If felt like taking a time warp into an older China. Also for a communist country the free market is alive and well.
More to come, stay tune
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| Run of the mill dried bugs. |
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| Scorpion anyone? |
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| Snakes are good for you health. |
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Kitties beware, rumor has it that cat meat is also sold
This is the only cat we saw. |
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| Very cool ally |
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| One of many ally ways |
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| Dried Seahorses |
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| Don't know, don't want to know! |
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