Today we started of with a visit to Jing An temple, this was at the top of Nanjing Dong Lu - one of the main shopping streets in Puxi.
Many of the locals visitng the temple were lighting incense in the burners on the left of the pic and then creating a whole load of smoke..
People were trying to throw coins into this tower in the middle of the courtyard - although I think hardhats were needed as the coins bounced off and landed on you - or they were going through the holes and attacking those on the other side - it was safer to watch from above.
One of the carvings on the side of the temple wall - it was fantastic, what made it all the more amazing was that the carving was all the way though so the shape was replicated on the reverse.
Sleeping on the job - didn't spill a drop of his tea though!!
These started singing - well we think it was singing - and then they got asked to leave by the guy in red for making to much noise.. But they just ignored him and carried on!!
After we let ourselves loose in the Old Town district and Yuyuan Garden area (although we haven't visited the gardens themselves yet) - so far this has to be the best place we have visited.
As you were walking down the streest people on bikes and pulling carts would just squueze through wherever they could see a gap in the crowd.
It was just so colourful, not just with the Chinese New Year decorations that were emblazoned across the buildings but also the people and the vendors in the street stalls.
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