The rest of China

Three Gorges Museum. It rained all day while I was touring the city.

The People's Great Hall. It was across the square from the Three Gorges Museum.

Everyone was very friendly there, especially the kids. I got the impression that most hadn't seen any foreigners, if you said to "Hi" to them in chinese they laughed and giggled. Maybe I was saying it wrong.

The mall next to my hotel, it was very upscale, as nice as any I've been to at home.

Near my hotel was a park with this fountain that had shows every night.

The park also had music every night, and people came out and exercised. It was something like a combination of Tai Chi and dancing.

Everywhere I've been in China there is KTV everywhere. I've been in one, but I hear KTV is a karaoke bar.

This one is hard to explain, it's a restaurant with a bathroom theme, all the seats are toilets, needless to say we didn't eat there.

I flew home through Beijing, this was 3pm in the afternoon, and that little dot is the sun. It was so hazy from pollution you could barely see the sun.

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I was surprised at some of the "things" we saw on the road. This a 3 wheeled motorcycle and they were everywhere, and there were no limits on how much you could load on them.

The kids were a blast, we had quite a few take pictures with us like we were celebrities, I have to admit it was pretty fun.

We had time after the Panda center so we toured an "old" town, although I think it was really brand new, just built to look like an ancient Chinese village.

Everywhere you looked in China was an interesting mix and the very old and very modern.

Two of my co-workers.

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Hongyadong is a touristy area on the river. We found an Irish pub there owned by a couple of American guys and spent and spent several interesting nights there eating dinner. This was during their annual Halloween party.

A couple of the cruise ships on the Jailing River near where it meets the Yangtze River, which flows through Chongqing then all the way to the East China Sea.

Hongyadong from the river level. Chongqing is a hilly city. Hongyadong is built into the side of a hill, you enter at the river level, it's 10 stories tall and you can exit the top floor onto a street at the top of the hill.

One weekend we took the high speed train from Chongqing to Chengdu to visit the Panda breeding and research center. It was basically a zoo just for Pandas.

Twin cubs named MengDa and XingXio (no, I couldn't tell them apart). They were about 2 months old and slept the whole time we were there.

This is actually a Panda, it's called a Red Panda.