As bad days go, yesterday was all the way up there with the day Gary Glitter decided he really must get that computer fixed. Short of finding a cockroach in my dumpling, today could not be any worse.
The town was still totally enveloped in smog so we decided to spend the day with people less fortunate than us, namely; the dead. By some miracle we managed to find the correct bus (out of a possible 4000 options) and got ourselves to the top of Zijin Mountain which was high enough that the air had cleared and blue sky was visible for the first time since Hong Kong.
Zijin Mountain is the final resting place of Sun Yatsen – the father of modern China and Zhu Yuanzhang – the only MIng Emperor not buried in Beijing, we visited both their tombs and for me the lad Sun Yatsen won by a nose, I love a coffin that has a carving of the fella inside on the top of it.
Back in town we discover there is more to the town than banks and roads and it's not quite as bad as we first thought.
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