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My friend and guide, Chen Xuan, at the Historic Market. Picture #5 Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

Another colored view of the Historic Market. Picture #4 Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

And another shot of the Historic Market. Picture #3 Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

And another shot of entering the Historic Market. Picture #2 Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

And then, to continue a very busy two days - one of my former students good friend (and a good friend of mine as well) Chen Xuan, invited me to an historic market. An open air / closed at times air market near Hero Mountain (sing xiong shan). It is a memorialized...

And finally, this the private room we ate in. Every meal in China is served what they refer to as family style. There is a very large glass 'lazy-susan' in the middle of the table and it's just pass it around and around and...... An etiquette of note: the Chinese do a...

This was really an exquisite lunch! To say the very least! We ate for nearly two hours. And the most incredible food just kept coming and coming and......Here is the professional carver guy? Not sure what his title would be. The main course was, yes, duck! The most...

Here's that old, light-brown eyed, pastie, extremely graying, white guy on the aforementioned island with his buddy - the smog! Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........

The interior of the small boat we rode out to the island. It is very interesting - and I mean this warmly and not in any negative fashion - but it takes a bit of getting used to being stared at a lot! Ya know, when you're the only old, white guy around in a 20 mile...

This is the interior of the small Chinese Opera theater venue - very colorful! Stay Tuned.........Still More To Come..........