China Day 6 - Wuhan 8/21/12
Today we are docking in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province. It's just a medium sized city of 19 million people!
The morning tour is the Hubei Provincial Museum. It's closed, but special tour for our group. Got to listen to the bronze bells and tour the exhibit of the Tomb of Marque De Yi. His burial chamber was four rooms wi enough room for him, his bells, which are about 40' long, and the 13 girls who played the music for him. Pretty sure they did more than play the bells, but that is the story they are sticking with, the girls were poisoned when he died. The bronze work is impressive as is the museum. It would be nice to see the rest of it too.
This afternoon a walking tour of the downtown area...destination WalMart. :-/ Actually, it's a pretty impressive place. They have really blended the Chinese culture into the store. The first floor is all food stuffs. Big barrels of rice, wheat, etc. Also dried sardines, live frogs and turtles (not in the pet department!), and a duck that looked like a biology lesson. The second floor was everything else. People were just hanging around reading books and using the lawn furniture to avoid the heat outside. On the escalator down, I finally figured out that the big bins between the escalator and the wall were filled with three things...condoms, tampons, and Qtips. Yes, Qtips. I also learned that Walmart employees are the same worldwide...they are more interested in talking to each other than they are to help customers!
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