The city of Chongqing, in the province of the same name (sometimes spelled ChungKing like in "ChungKing Express") is a truly industrial million-people dwelling. Growing on trading and industry in the interior of China, the cruise on the YangTse (ChangJiang 长江) starts here and that's why I came to Chongqing.
On the small image on the left, one of the most impressive things I've seen on this trip: that guy has a street show with math tricks! He would ask numbers from the audience and multiply them in a second. There may be some trick, like a partner or so, but who cares - the sole fact that you can entertain people there with mathematics surely says something about the culture!
On the right, a small pictoresque old town on the outskirts of the main city, is now converted into postcard-picture, weekend-promenade for the millions of middle class city dwellers, the old houses there renovated and all sorts of shopping and street stalls. There is a temple too (of course!) where you can go ask for luck in love and marriage...
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