Around Chongqing

This is the best picture we have so far of a water buffalo, even though they're everywhere in the countryside.

A nice little path near one of the restaurants where we were stuffed with local food. One danger about using a guide in China is that every meal will be huge.

We may have mentioned this before, but it bears restating - Cielo is an excellent traveller. She put up with a huge amount of driving around in Da Zu, Chongqing, and later Yi Chang and Beijing. We're going to have a terrible time getting her back into her car seat when we come home, though.

Cielo is a big attraction in Shanghai, arguably the most cosmopolitan city in China. In the countryside she was hard to believe. Here she is surrounded by autograph seekers back in Dazu. The arrow is pointing at her (her mom is in there somewhere, too).

Note the rattan baby backpack. These look very comfortable for the kids who get to ride in them, but the straps are usually made from a narrow rattan rope and cut deeply into the adults' shoulders.

There are two big motorcycle manufacturers in Chongqing, and the terrain is hilly, and the city area is pretty spread out. All of those things add up to a lot of motorcycles on the roads. Here's a family on theirs.

Here's a view of part of Chongqing from the highest point in the city. Chongqing is at the junction of two rivers. This picture shows the one that isn't the Yangtze (the Yangtze's Chinese name is Changjiang, which means "long river").

This is a picture of a model of the Three Gorges Dam. The model itself is too big to get in the shot. Behind me is the unphotographable 100 meter long painting of the Yangtze river from Chongqing to the dam.

Cielo drinking yogurt from a tea cup during our last dinner in Chongqing.