Nanchang photo gallery

Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 6:45 p.m.

Nanchang photo gallery

I hope you take time to look through a selection of eight photos Pam and I took today while visiting the beautiful city of Nanchang. If you have any thoughts, suggestions or comments, drop us a line here at our blog or at our e-mails, cassreino@bellsouth.net or terry-and-pam@cassreino.com. We hope you all have been enjoying participating in our journey. -- Terry R. Cassreino

PHOTO 1
Camryn enjoys a mouthful of congee during breakfast on Tuesday morning at the Gloria Plaza Hotel. The hotel has a breakfast buffet whose items resemble a lunch menu (fried pork chops, fried rice and duck to name a few items). The food is good, though. Camryn loves the congee, which is long grain rice that has been overcooked to the consistency of oatmeal. It's usually sweetened with sugar.






PHOTO 2
Camryn enjoys watching her mom make a strange face during breakfast. Actually, I'm not sure what Pam was reacting to at this point. She might have bitten into one of those exotic dishes they serve here (at the lunch buffet, for example, one dish was braised bullfrogs. Yum).









PHOTO 3
Here is a shot of some apartment buildings near the hotel. I thought it was interesting that the tenants hang their clothes off the side to dry them.











PHOTO 4
I don't know why, but I've been fascinated by tea sets like this one that I've seen for sale in Beijing and in Nanchang. I don't drink a lot of hot tea, but these sets are beautiful. I think I could buy one for about $10 to $15. And I may do so either in Guangzhou or Hong Kong before I head back home.








PHOTO 5
Here is the owner of Tiffanie's, a small store up the street from the Gloria Plaza Hotel. There, they sell the tea sets pictured above as well as made-to-order Chinese outfits like the one being held in the photo. We can buy one for Camryn for about $12 to $14. Dresses for girls and women cost about $32 each and also are made to order. Here's the amazing thing: We can choose the fabric and have the dresses ready in one day. Oh, and the prices are much better than the ones we were quoted for similar dresses in Beijing.











PHOTO 6
Pam and Camryn pose in the heart of the People's Square in downtown Nanchang on Tuesday morning. We took this after visiting Wal-Mart SuperCenter. I liked this building because it reminds me of the old Walgreens on Canal Street in New Orleans. Now don't ask me what the sign says on the building because my Mandarin is not that good. I will make an educated guess about this: It has something to do with the year 2006.












PHOTO 7
Camryn takes it easy watching a soccer match on Chinese television. This kid is so much into soccer that we had to race back to the hotel Tuesday morning to catch the afternoon match between her hometown team from Jiujiang City and their arch rivals from Beijing. I don't know who won because I didn't watch it (I don't like soccer). But by the way she cried afterward, I think Jiujiang City lost. Maybe next year.






PHOTO 8
By popular demand, here is another shot of Camryn sound asleep. This was taken on Monday night after she met us. We obviously shocked the poor child so much that she exhausted herself crying.








Photos and text copyright 2006 by Terry R. Cassreino.