Mirage Ningbo

Just watched a DVD last night with a documentary about modern landscapes and photography and factories. It was rather slow in parts, with no commentary or narration - just some Chinese dialogue. But some of the images where beautiful and compelling, even though they were of huge industrial factories or scenes of piled trash for sorting. If you use a torrent downloader you can view for free. Here's the producer's outline of the doco: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary ...

Cixi is another city in China that I visit regularly. Also know as the Capital of Household Appliances, Cixi ( (pronounced "Tsuh-Shee") is a city withing the sub provencial city of Ningbo. An industrial township, this city is a major production base for small home appliances - there would be over 5000 units producing these goods. Besides appliances, Cixi is ...

Reached Ningbo after another 4 hour bus trip, all on modern highways. 20 years ago China didnīt have any highways and today itīs a 30 000 km network, second only to the US. Ningbo is another big city, and my last stop before heading back to Shanghai and flying out.

... the fish tray. I couldn't believe my eyes, but I guess THAT is why I fail. "Do or do not, there is no try." The Force is strong in this old woman. I was really tempted to hand her my chopsticks to see if she was as good as Mr. Miagi in "Karate Kid". If I could only have found a light saber to give her, she would have made an excellent National Geographic Photo. Unfortunately, I didn't have my camera with me. On a ...

... to the 1st of October but it was postponed because of one of these nasty typhoons that frequently invite themselves on the coast in this season, usually after gatecrashing Taiwan first. I had to wake up before 6am, but I would have woken up at 3am if required. It took a long time to get there: 4:30 by bus from Hangzhou to Shipu and about 2:30 by boat from there to the ...

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....nice & quiet place...kinda scarry especially when nearing the airport...flight lower done for landing and all you could see was hills and...suddenly runway out of nowhere... ....do get stares from people as I was probable thought to be burnt Chinesse! ...got a chinesse flute after seeing the man on the street play it beautifully and one stack for sale.. ....tried the flute back in hotel, only air coming out...still trying...

I stayed in Ningbo overnight as it was the nearest airport for us to fly home from. The hotel we stayed at was called the 'Howard Johnson' and it was amazingly luxurious. I will always remember this hotel as well as the one in Hangzhou as the most incredible hotels I have ever stayed at. The rooms were huge, the bathroom was as big as my bedroom at home and all the extra touches made this place somewhere I ...

... we couldn't check the inside out. As I'm more of an 'inside a temple man' than an 'inside a church man' this didn't worry me too much. The outside was enough for me. As Hans had a family dinner party to attend we said our goodbyes and I continued to walk along the Yong Jiang (river) which is the second fork that runs into Fenghuang Jiang (river). Here is ...

... I certainly can't afford to ride you either! She didn't understand most of what I said but the parts in Chinese she did and get this, she then began bargaining with me. Her price dropped quicker than a bride's nightie and I soon had my wallet out showing her my life's worth. Once she understood that she stopped bargaining and began asking me about my life instead. Bloody Hell I thought, I'm worth so little that a freakin ...