I know... this is supposed to be about the cruise, but I still had some photos to share from
Chongqing.
After the pollution-filled skies of Tianjin, we were looking forward to clear skies--after all, the pollution index showed a consistently low number (around 50, compared to 250 plus).
What we found was a foggy haze.
We climbed the tower so we could see over all the city but couldn't see very far in any direction.
The tower was part of E Ling park ("e" means duck). We enjoyed exploring.
At the Old Town, we found silk from cocoons being wound onto spools. The cocoons were floating in water and just bobbed around as the nearly invisible thread was pulled out. The shop also had some beautiful scarves and blouses. Too expensive for my taste!
I've never before thought of the commonality between feet and ears, but evidently Lee has!
In our area of China, baskets and shoulder yokes aren't common at all, but they were in Chongqing.
We bought strawberries from one man selling from his baskets.
The berries were delicious--after we triple-washed them.
We didn't want to take a chance on spoiling our cruise with food poisoning.
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