Exploring

Exploring the local food markets (equivalent to our Farmers Markets)

has been a real eye opener - all sort of meat and all parts of the
animal (some we don't recognise), live fish ducks and chickens and
food that look very dangerous! Great fun though.
Oh the toilets! The extremes - one we used was just a channel which you squat over - a low partition, no door and no loo paper.   Was a bit weird seeing people squatting and reading the paper or talking on a mobile. No soap or basin. But the toilets in the Financial Tower are a work of art! Heated toilet seat (ring of fire) and a little contol panel for the clean up. You can do a front or back wash, choose the pressure and temp and move the spray oh so gently up your cra... I mean nether regions. If fact was almost better than the view.  I recommend a good dump if you visit that place. And the hand dryers are cool as well!
Today we are heading of sight seeing again and tomorrow we fly to Xi'an. Christmas day will be very different - not sure what we will eat as some of the food is not the best!
Hopefully the next post from Xi'an
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