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<\/a><\/p>\nThese are some of the players from next door.\u00a0 I can see and hear the rattle of tiles as I work.<\/p>\n
Nearby I came upon an enormous wet market, ie fruit vegies, meat and prepared foods.\u00a0 Definately full of colour and noise. This is a small section of the market.\u00a0 Just noticed the tails hanging over the counter, have close ups of 2 others.\u00a0 \u00a0The stallhoilder is crocheting.\u00a0 I am acquiring a collection of photos of such people knitting or embroidering while they wait for trade.<\/p>\n There was even a pet shop although the only livestock were 2 rabbits in front of the next door shop, a hairdresser.\u00a0 \u00a0It consisted of a cage housing a friendly rabbit and a smaller one.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think they were on the menu although everything else with a heartbeat was; snakes, frogs, crustacans, fish, turtles, chooks and ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n I returned via the pretty park near the hostel.\u00a0\u00a0 It had its its complement of diehard card players and others just enjoying a respite from the city. \u00a0I also encountered 3 little girls running in an annex to that park a bit closer\u00a0 the hostel.\u00a0 One was clutching an adult rabbit which didn\u2019t seem fazed by running up hill and down dale in a less than firm grip.\u00a0 It was more worried about me patting it later in another part of the park.\u00a0 In that area a stretch limo station wagon was parked.\u00a0 It had the name of a KTV company on its wondow.\u00a0 KTV is karoke and is very popular in China.<\/p>\n The next day I walked the streets to try and get my bearings and see what there was to see.\u00a0 Not that I could get too many bearings in a city of 6 million.\u00a0 And I got lost a couple of times, but not until the very end when I turned left instead of right but eventually realised my mistake and had to retrace my steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n There is a tree lined street near the hostel where the trees totally canopy the street.\u00a0 It seems to be the street specialising in army surplus just like the street it runs off has numerous musical instruments on one side and and motorbike shops on the other apart from one cycle shop which snuck in on the wrong side.<\/p>\n I found a park where many people were gathered for the obligatory games of cards and mahjong.\u00a0<\/p>\n I entered my first Carrefour department shop and found a couple of items I needed.\u00a0 When I was returning to the hostel I passed in the street one of the saleswomen who had served me.\u00a0 She recognised me while I was a bit oblivious till I saw the spark in her eye. \u00a0I was getting to the\u00a0 stage of working out how long it would take me to return to the hostel and it was still a bit of a trek.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n I headed towards a mosque where I found a small dog asleep on the stock of the neighbouring multipurpose seller.\u00a0 The owner was sitting on the step and woke his dog for a photo op.\u00a0 The foot peeping out from the doorway of the neighbouring shop was so small I thought it was a childs.\u00a0 When I went in to buy water the owner was a tiny very elderly lady.<\/p>\n When looking for the next nearby mosque I found some streets containing very old buildings.\u00a0 Some were being rebuilt in an original style, some in\u00a0 a modern style but the vast majority were extremely old and dilapidated.<\/p>\n \u00a0 This is at the crossroads of some old streets.\u00a0 This is a pharmacy.\u00a0 The upstairs is definately in use and the upper stories are in better condition than others.<\/p>\n One extremely long street of old buildings consisted solely of shops doing printing work. One of the modern street sections contained a tiny shop selling handmade paper products.\u00a0 There were some beautiful and interesting lampshades, blank books, postcards on handmade paper, a couple of books printed on handmade paper etc.\u00a0 The quality was excellent in design and execution.\u00a0\u00a0 Was tempted to buy but as I am going north and might encounter some of it closer to the source I decided to return in the future if necessary.<\/p>\n The colours and shapes in\u00a0 the architecure in the dilapidated buildings were very interesting and I took many photos.\u00a0 At times it was possible to see the materials and method of\u00a0 construction.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Some of the old buildings.<\/p>\n It was also possible to buy a pup literally off the street.\u00a0 About half a dozen people were ranged around a stretch of street with containers of very young pups.\u00a0 Numbers ranged from a couple of women with 1 each to a couple including a rather cranky appearing man with a whole crate of them.\u00a0 He was none too gentle with them either and he wasn\u2019t the only one.\u00a0 One similarly inclinced woman wasn\u2019t interested in me photographing hers but the two women with 1 each pushed their pups close together to make it easier for me.\u00a0 I asked the price of one of the pups and was told about $9.\u00a0 Not sure if that was a foreigner price, a local price or one available for bargaining.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0Others both young and old were just hanging around chatting.\u00a0 A couple of people were playing musical instruments with vocal and dancing accompaniment. I saw a few young men wearing white jackets and holding combs and scissors in their hands walk through it. \u00a0I\u00a0 thought they may have been itinerant hairdressers and if they were they wern\u2019t doing it in the park as I didn\u2019t see them again.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n