Month: March 2015
The big animal safari
Our next big trip was to got to the drive thru and walk thru animal safari in Guangzhou about an hour away in the middle of one of the most populous areas on earth and on the week end of the biggest holiday in that area. Has all the makings of a crowd. We got there and pulled up to the ticket place and bought tickets and the lady said traffic jam. So we moved ahead in to 2 lanes of cars starting to move through the big safari.
At the beginning you couldn’t help wonder why it was moving so slow and what the big deal was as the only thing to look at was these red long neck chickens.
After looking at some turkey things and some other small unknown animals we came to this guy.
They we finally got to the elephants one of which is shown here. They look pretty much like elephants everywhere.
Then there were Lions
and Tigers
and Bears, OH MY
I’ll say that again.
There were Lions
And Tigers
And Bears OH MY
Next up were these famous animals. I won’t tell you what they were because I cant spell rhinoceros.
This park specialized in these white tigers. In the big walk around area they had a breeding area where they were raising quite a few young ones.
As we came to the end of the drive through they had the zebras and other African animals all just hanging out along with these birds,
and this guy,
So then it was park the car and head into the big walk around zoo like area.
Of course we had to stop and check out the hats.
There were a bunch of white and black swans on the lake.
A bunch of various primates generically called monkeys.
A few colorful birds.
By this time we were at the dead end of the park as far from the car as you could get and everyone was tired and hungry. (well not exactly, most members of out party ate some mystery meat on a stick) The route out was confusing and we thought we may be trapped in the park for the night but we got out and stopped at the big hotel nearby for a dinner deal and then made the drive home on the busy and confusing China highway. (one big difference between the US and China is the ability of GPS map systems to keep up. China is building roads too fast for the system to keep up which from time to time leads to incorrect or stupid instructions. With the holiday trips out of the way Mary’s sister stayed until Tuesday, Mary left for Wuhu Thursday and Yuki and I stayed until I took her to the airport Saturday. Mary got home Tuesday. As I’m posting this on Sunday I leave for Shanghai area tomorrow and meet Mary in Hong Kong Tuesday to go to Poland on business until Sunday. So Happy New Year.
The visit to the wilderness
It was Friday so that meant it was the day to visit the wilderness up the road and across the bridge. On the Google shot in the post below the wilderness is in the upper RH quarter of the island. (I’d get a bigger and better picture from Google but Chairman Mao says we can’t has the Google here). We drove there and the last half mile was on a one lane path to a parking area. You then walk in or ride bicycle things. We rode a 4 person bicycle thing.
About a half mile up is the beginning of the wilderness. A person explores the wilderness by walking on this boardwalk for a mile or so until you return to the original start position.
There were little side cul-de-sac s that required Yuki to be photographed like the Queen of England.
There were trees and water and bushes and stuff.
You could stop to inspect colorful flowering bushes such as this.
While studying the flowers we taught a genuine Chinese butterfly to pose like the Queen of England.
At the end of the journey there was a food place so of course we had to eat. Out the window was 1 forlorn little flowering bush.
But inside it was a whole chicken served up with plastic gloves to tear it apart and eat like you were from the 10th century BC.
So after lunch it was time to load up on the bicycle thing and return to civilization.
We all survived and lived to continue the Chinese New Year holiday.