Thanks for your interest Chaps
Here's a few more pics of the caves at Gulin
One of the things that fascinated me was the transport system, traffic seemed to flow like a stream flowing around a bolder, traffic lights were optional green, amber, red all mean go, their was no lane discipline, and as for the bicycles the majority of which were battery driven they were just like a herd of stampeding cattle that didn't give way for anything.
This pic was taken early in the morning before the traffic really got going you can see the bicycle lane has been stopped by a man with a red flag, they just wont obey the lights, when the traffic really pics up they just overwhelm him and keep going. At the bottom right you can just see a new subway under construction, (not a sandwich shop a mass transport system)
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This is the fast train we did a journey of about the equivalent of Manchester to London about 2 hrs:- 1st class one way for £12.
It hit a top speed of 200 km/hr, they are building a faster high speed track that will have speed of over 300 km/hr
A goods train
We passed a train loaded with military vehicles I didn't think it wise to take a pic, but what interested me was that each vehicle had a driver sitting in it even though they were loaded on a railway wagon
They call these strange things "local Mercedes"
A up dated version.
Most of the bikes and scooter look like Japanese clones.
I've never seen cars transported like this.
Came across this in a museum its how they use to cast bronze pots with a clay pattern and mold.
We flew out their in an Airbus A380 its got three camera one above the cockpit, one on the tail plane and one pointing to the ground, each passenger seat has a TV for watching videos etc, you can also access these cameras and watch the plane taking off and landing etc, I took this pic of the screen as the plane was making a course correction at 40,000ft, you can see the curvature of the earth.
I've tried not to be political with this thread, but one of the most disturbing thing that happened was when it was announced that the Nobel Piece Prize had been awarded to a Chinese dissident, we were watching the BBC world news channel the presenter got as far as saying "The Nobel Piece Prize has been awarded to the Chinese dissident" and the signal was cut off, we swapped over to CNN they did the same thing, and they kept doing it every time it came on.
I think the next pics demonstrate the hypocrisy of the Chines system.
I just wonder what would happen to any one who printed a t shirt taking the piss out of a Chinese leader.
Stew
