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Heading out of the big city called to Qinglong Temple in Qingpu district, a rather large suburb of Shanghai.



























Vendors and shops outside the temple selling candles and incense sticks to visitors.











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Hairy Crab season around greater Shanghai region and Yancheng Lake near Suzhou / Kunshan (Jiangsu province) has the authentic Hairy Crabs, the best of the crawlies apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mitten_crab and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangcheng_Lake













Massive crab restaurants are situated around the Yangcheng Lake area in Jiangsu province.









Hairy Crabs for shipment to outlaying areas and yes ~ they ship them live to Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. as well....













Yangcheng Lake (Jiangsu) Aquatic Park and a quick run through Baocheng.















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Autumn bike run to Nanjing (Jiangsu) for a few business meetings and catching up with mates.
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing
Taking national roads #318 / #104 / #312 to Nanjing from Shanghai this time, bit of a long way 'round but the other national roads between Suzhou / Wuxi and Shanghai are currently under construction.

Crossing China province borders and a Jiangsu province...







Jiangsu province road-side restaurant "you kill it ~ we grill it" style with various meats on display including man's best friend beside national road #318.....









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Beside national road #104 between Huzhou - Nanjing several areas displaying and selling rather large stone sculptures....









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Grain drying at public roads, common practice all over China...











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Wile staying in Nanjing for three days, went to the Nanjing massacre museum one afternoon with a mate as I have been there the last time a decade ago, very intense display...

The tomb-like exhibition hall, half underground, contains items related to the massacre, including an immense collection of pictures, objects, charts, and photographs.
Paintings, sculptures, illuminated display cabinets, multimedia screens and documentary films serve to demonstrate to visitors the crimes committed by the Japanese military.
The Nanking Massacre or Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre and Nanjing Massacre









































































John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

Iris Chang was an American historian and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004.
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Heading back to Shanghai in the morning from the Nanjing downtown traffic circle with a statue of Sun Yat-Sen.
Mostly rain all the way from Nanjing to Suzhou and clear from Suzhou Jinjii Lake area to Shanghai.
As usual, riding during rain in China ~ bike and rider gets covered in a thick layer of road grime and dirt.....





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Sanya / Hainan Island~ down in Southern China, picking up the China Jialing ride report from post #130 as I am reunited with my trusty Jialing JH600 at the again.
First short run was over to Hohai, just down the road from the ferry pier to Wuzhizhou Island near Haitang Bay.











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Got a bottle of famous Sanya moonshine and rode up to one of my favourite Sanya mountain tops to watch the world go by on sunset hill listening to music.....









Light dinner over at Serenity Coast Sanya Marina watching the lightshow display on the five towers at Phoenix Island.

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Baoting used to be the island's second largest city (after the capital, Haikou), but is now being surpassed by nearby Sanya. The city is the home town of the Soong sisters, two of whom married the Chinese leaders Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek.
Bǎotíng Li and Miao Autonomous County (Paoting) is an autonomous county in Hainan, People's Republic of China and the official website in Chinese: http://www.baoting.hainan.gov.cn













Baoting "Frog Town" as they really have sort of an obesession with frogs, don't know if they but they are present almost everywhere in on form or the other.









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Qixianling Mountain (Seven Fairy Mountain), located in Baoting Li and Miao Ethnic Group Autonomous County, is 76 k's away from the international tourism city Sanya in the South and 39 k's from the famous mountain city Wuzhishan in the North.























Large yellow inflatable rubber ducks are in fashion everywhere, this one spotted on the bottom of Qixianling Mountain.....

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Flat rear tyre just in front of the Dadonghai bike repair shop in Sanya downtown area.
As the Jialing JH600 has tubed tyres, the whole rear wheel has to dismantled to fix or install a new inner tube.
Love tubeless tyres as easy plug and ride again with reliable tire pluggers (rope or mushroom plugs) and an electric air compressor.











Well, surprise ~ surprise, my mates well known trusty and reliable Chang-Jiang sidecar sits once again in a bike repair shop... the joy's of owning a piece of vintage China motorcycle history.



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Business meetings up in capital city Haikou arranged and making my way up North via the inner island roads, basically Sanya >> Lingshui / Wanning >> Haikou with a snack break stop.

















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Chinese driving school in the Outback of Hainan Island.....













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Bush gas station operated out of a roadside shop by a betel nut chewing couple either drunk or high as kites, barely able to speak... just some mumbling and filling up with crappy gas, got me going again without probs till the next real gas station.







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