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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Chongqing - Escape to country side

1st of May weekend we spent in search for traditional country side and with a desire to have a mini village hopping hike. And what a nice surprise we managed to make ourselves, heading out in the morning with a plan of getting into wild and lets see where the evening will find us. As the area is densely populated finding a place to stay shouldn't be a problem.
As self made guides at one moment the road turned into track, then track turned into no track, exactly what I had been looking for :) This is how it went:
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Night stay and starting point of the hike - small river side village Zhongshan with one street and few flies 
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Zhongshan's only street, so narrow that it was partially roofed.
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Street life
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Zhongshan is still a tourist destination, so during the day the small street turns into buy/sell trap. Some old notebooks being sold
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View to the village from the river side
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The biggest pleasure - playing cards. Card games are the absolute mandatory way of spending the day(s). 
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Focus on the game
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Restaurant and its today's menu opened directly to the street
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Small track, later on getting smaller, until completely disappearing, for one moment only few houses on the other side of river were showing the presence of civilization. 
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Football match in local style
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Local farm house. Similar to Estonian rehetare?!

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