Have power board, will travel
China is pretty big.
It covers a very diverse area, and the people from different areas are very diverse. Even beyond Hong Kong and Taiwan the concept a single unified China is something I struggled to get my head around. Our guides would often reference dynasties from hundreds of years ago and say โthey unified all of China.โ
China is old.
They have a recorded history going back quite a while. Though there โโโโโโ are some notable โโโโโโ blank spots โโโโโโ in that history.
We visited a lot of places that were very old, or at least were old at some point. China seems to have a new found pride in its history, or โโโโโ at least โโโโโ parts of โโโโ it.
On the way to the Great Wall we visited the Ming Tombs. Our guide explained that a number of the tombs were destroyed during the cultural revolution. What was left hadn’t been completely excavated.
Pont in French means bridge or span, we would see a few of them today.
Each morning there would be a new and interesting car parked out the front of the hotel. The Tesla Model X had come down all the way from Norway, I think the Citroรซn was a little closer to home.
Today we were picking up a rental car for a couple of days to visit some areas outside of Nimes. On the list today was a visit to the museum and replica of Chauvet Cave near Pont d’arc. We had a set time to take a guided tour of the replica cave, so we needed to get our rental car as soon as the place opened.