Intelligent Evil
Well it happened - the big one - the trip to the Great Chinese Wall. I only wish I had more time there, an hour and half is far not enough. I' ve made a lot of photos, but luck has funny sense of humor so at the most important today to take pictures (Mountains!!!!) the weather had mist in stock for us. So I don't know how much is visible of the spectacular background I d been enjoying but the fact is - there are photos, expect em.
Now more about the Wall itself. Not sure where to start tho... Well its big, and I mean it - its amazingly enormous! Next I have some bad news for the male part of my readers (I know you re few and all, guys, but take a deep breath and prepare yourself); most of you are officially not proper men here in China. Cause as an ancient chinese poet wrote (and its been documented in the giant stone, mind you!) "Every true man has climbed the Great Wall". I have and even got a certificate to verify it not mentioning photos! :P
Then there are towers and the distance between towers is unmeasurably different since they have stairs and flat ways mixed at random. Stairs also vary a lot - there are different sizes of steps, different distances and even different directions. But I ve made up a rule for myself - no stops between towers. I kept goin no matter how much tired I was and how heavily I breathed. At the tower tops I felt myself a champion after an important match won. I climbed it up till 12th tower top, starting at 6th. Would go for more ofc but the time limit was strict. Then it was thewalk run down with such adrenaline rush that I was actually yelling some positive stuff near the end.
I also visited an Emperor's Tomb and it was not impressive at all tbh - thats not what you expect from an Emperor with a dozen of yards in his palace. Just a couple of stone rooms with only difference that one has thrones and the other - coffins and treasure boxes which are not even present - there are red boxes to show size of it and thats all.
Well these 2 points also got me 2 lines crossed out of the collective wish list I have. And also about that - there s one major complication about it - I need a new list of teas (cause I lost the paper^^') and I may not even get those at all since everything is written in chinese and russian here is rare and often poor.
Oh and I ve found a bit of info about those massage salons around - it figures, I was right after all and most of em are in fact disguised brothels along with most of barber shops here (I need to start countin those as well, now that I know it - there's quite a lot of em around too). These also use an interesting system of attraction - the photos visible from outside do not really show the haircuts, instead they actually show the girls available here. Thats quite useless but funny notion. So yeah I'm officially livin in a local red lights district but be silent about it - those are all massage salons and barber shops after all, not some kind of brothels, yeah, cause otherwise they d be closed by police ofc^^
Now more about the Wall itself. Not sure where to start tho... Well its big, and I mean it - its amazingly enormous! Next I have some bad news for the male part of my readers (I know you re few and all, guys, but take a deep breath and prepare yourself); most of you are officially not proper men here in China. Cause as an ancient chinese poet wrote (and its been documented in the giant stone, mind you!) "Every true man has climbed the Great Wall". I have and even got a certificate to verify it not mentioning photos! :P
Then there are towers and the distance between towers is unmeasurably different since they have stairs and flat ways mixed at random. Stairs also vary a lot - there are different sizes of steps, different distances and even different directions. But I ve made up a rule for myself - no stops between towers. I kept goin no matter how much tired I was and how heavily I breathed. At the tower tops I felt myself a champion after an important match won. I climbed it up till 12th tower top, starting at 6th. Would go for more ofc but the time limit was strict. Then it was the
I also visited an Emperor's Tomb and it was not impressive at all tbh - thats not what you expect from an Emperor with a dozen of yards in his palace. Just a couple of stone rooms with only difference that one has thrones and the other - coffins and treasure boxes which are not even present - there are red boxes to show size of it and thats all.
Well these 2 points also got me 2 lines crossed out of the collective wish list I have. And also about that - there s one major complication about it - I need a new list of teas (cause I lost the paper^^') and I may not even get those at all since everything is written in chinese and russian here is rare and often poor.
Oh and I ve found a bit of info about those massage salons around - it figures, I was right after all and most of em are in fact disguised brothels along with most of barber shops here (I need to start countin those as well, now that I know it - there's quite a lot of em around too). These also use an interesting system of attraction - the photos visible from outside do not really show the haircuts, instead they actually show the girls available here. Thats quite useless but funny notion. So yeah I'm officially livin in a local red lights district but be silent about it - those are all massage salons and barber shops after all, not some kind of brothels, yeah, cause otherwise they d be closed by police ofc^^