A Trip To Ancient Street (Ci Qi Kou)

Lillian came by the hotel at around 0900 to take us on our Ancient Street Adventure. I had read that this was an authentic part of old Chongqing and was pretty well all that is left to show what Chongqing used to look like. It was not close so we had to take a bus and then a taxi. We left at around 0920 and arrived to the area an hour later.

We left Jie Fang Bei at around 0920 via this bus about a block from our hotel

It was a long trip and it was early in the morning so . . . . .

The Entrance to Ci Qi Kou or Ancient Street

More street scenes

Activity on ancient street

The entrance to the local Buddhist temple

Where do these stairs lead?

Everyone's favorite past time in Chongqing is eating

Shopping for all kinds of things

An old man on the street

Very inexpensive these masks are

A view of ancient China

Even local girls get hot in Chongqing

This represents a local legend Lillian told me about. Forgot it!

Representative of Chongqing. The leaves are from the Chongqing official tree

Another street scene

Sunee is always on the lookout for Feng Sui related items for our home in Thailand

The end of the street at the Yangtze River

Remember the cotton candy we used to get as kids, welcome to China

A very colorful shop that caught my eye and my camera's focus

Ahhh, the traditional Chinese candy man. Spin to determine what animal you get

More street scenes

Nice way to spend a morning but it is time to return to our hotel

We are scheduled to go to the Great Hall of the People in the afternoon so we had to get back to the hotel to relax before our next site. A great time but it was indeed hot - furnace hot!