We met at 7:45 after getting our own breakfast. We just went to the cafeteria and had some soybean milk and steamed bread. Then we set off for a five-hour bus ride to Gutian.
The travel agency that arranged our road trip likes to find restaurants that cook local specialties. Sometimes the foods are too exotic for Western tourists.
Gutian is the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Our tour guide brought us first to a very large museum with very little English signage. We had a Mandarin-speaking tour guide who would talk for long periods of time before our English-speaking tour guide would get to say something, so the visit took far too long.
Walkway through fields of rapeseed to the ancestral temple that was the site of the First National Congress.
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| Meeting site. |
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| Mao's desk and office. |
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| Chinese tourists dressed in period clothing. |
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| You can rent the whole outfit. I wonder if they would have let us rent them too? |
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| The famous statue of Mao. We missed seeing this last time we were here. We were scouting out graffiti. |
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| We ended the day with another meal of local favorites. We actually ate in this indoor/outdoor restaurant three times on this trip and once was enough for me. |
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