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amazing
 


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China 2011 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 HSE Auto Santorini BlackDiscovery 4
earthquake , floods and kungfu panda

hi all
had a few little road trips this week and if you have driven here you will know its quite an event due to the fab road conditions and highly skilled drivers.
photos in gallery under "road trip"
some photos taked by wife who if taking bad pictures was an Olympic sport she would easily make the Chinese team.

first we went to QingCheng mountain the home of Taoism (the yingyang stuff) with some friends who were going to get blessed for their wedding after they built and donated a school to the area.
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this is not a normal event (the top taoist monk was flown in to do the ceremony )and a documentary was made of the day and as a large donation was submitted for the event I could also take photos (normally not permitted)

The mountain is the origin of Taoism "yingyang thing" and was the location inspiration for the movie "kungfu panda"

(insert mental picture of kung fu panda here to save me the effort of posting)

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climbing up the mountain you will see lots of sticks jammed under overhangs. it is believed if someone is unhealthy they can jam a stick here to prop up the mountain thus increasing thier strength.
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I went for a wee..this was the view..nice

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my friends choice of car (his wifes 458 italia) seemed fun in the morning and he wizzed past me all the way to the mountain (curse that speed limiter).however...two hours of torrential rain soon put an end to his fun ..fat tyres 562hp and 3" of standing water not a good combo..hehehe ..one to the disco
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in the evening a nice meal of a selection of ganguo dishes a very spicy dish.
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the next day out again

this time to the location of the 7.9 earthquake that rocked the area a few years back.
with all the heavy rain everyone was worried about landslides "Wifes parents ringing every few minutes to see if we are ok “ I jokingly ask them what the sign "飞石" means as I had not seen it before.( it means flying stones i.e landslides) that apparently did not help to calm them (wife told me off for being mean:lol: )

on the way pass the dam that provides all the drinking water for Chengdu
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so here is the car there
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as it turned out the day was great very little rain
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here is the town
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all rebuilt after the quake
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time for food
wouldn't you like to get your teeth into that ......!
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The SARS virus was linked to this cat like animal.. locals have a "cure" for it (bad pun)

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the girls like to dress up (no nurse uniforms here sorry)
but look above you will see a yaks head
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saw this happy little tractor
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very common here but I bet some of your kids would love one

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my brolly shrunk
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that's a big pair
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that's a big pear
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locals collect drift wood
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the river is very fast flowing
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so after the first days downpour the car was really really clean..even cleaned of all the sap marks
however ..it's back dirty now...hohum It is better to have and not need it then need and not have it.  
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Popelka
 


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great scenery, just shows the D4 is better choice over the Italia....... Experience is a difficult teacher, because she gives the test first and then the lesson afterwards!!!!  
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GREENI
 


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Great pics 8)  
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Hairy Dan
 


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Interesting photos Thumbs Up Cheers Ian
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Russell
 


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Very good photos!!
It must be a very beautiful and interesting country.

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