In a few years my husband wants to go to China. We've been before to the big cities which are amazing but we'd like to go to one of the dozens of cities in China with millions of people most people in the west know very little about.
I'd like to go to see ancient invertebrates. Is there anything to do at the Qingjiang biota? There has to be a university or museum or something there.
My husband speaks Chinese ... poorly, like a 10 year old. Which I think is impressive tbh.
@futurebird I lived briefly in Anji (安吉县), which is home to the bamboo forest where they filmed scenes from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I don’t know that there’s much else to see around there, but the bamboo forest was very impressive, and while I was there I think I had a different bamboo dish every single day. Still fascinated by the things they did with bamboo in food there.
I also spent time in nearby Nanxun (南浔镇), which is a really interesting town with some good historical things to see. Pretty sure I nearly killed an old woman there by almost walking into her while rounding a corner and simultaneously being the first white person she’d ever seen.
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