Vincent in China - Tag - Chengdu2017-10-25T09:30:29+08:00Vincent Burn:md5:34a297bdd030cb9a6dbc5c963b37bbb3DotclearSome first pictures of Wuhan 武汉,Wuchang 武昌.urn:md5:f9f7e9491f8bbf54ce7d55dd6ccecf882009-09-05T16:11:00+01:00MulotWuhanChengduChinaFlatPicturesWuhan <p>Wuhan is not really a city, it s in fact 3 different cities at the north and south of the YangTse. I live in Wuchang, the one at the south of the YangTse.</p>
<p>Wuhan in really huge and the population in the urban area is about 10 millions people. The weather is particularly hot, even according to Chinese standard and it s not rare to have temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius during summer. In addition, the weather is really wet and just staying 2 minutes in the shadows outside is enough to change you into a sticky thing.</p>
<p>Chinese way of driving is really different from France,and kind of disturbing in a first time,even lethal if you don t pay attention to the cars,bus,taxis, bikes and other weird vehicles on the road. When you want to cross the street, even if the light is a brilliant green for you to cross, cars are going and thats your part to avoid them,all this in a kind of horn concerto, which will be very soon nothing special to hear in the coming days.</p>
<p>However, Wuhan is the most crazy city I've been through about driving, with a lot of cars even sometimes bus driving on the sidewalk, the "Wuhan touch" maybe.
Some pictures from my flat balcony, 29th floor.
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Wuhan/._IGP4592_rs_m.jpg" alt="Wuhan by night 1" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Wuhan by night 1, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Wuhan/._IGP4593_rs_m.jpg" alt="Wuhan by night 2" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Wuhan by night 2, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Wuhan/._IGP4594_rs_m.jpg" alt="Wuhan by Day 1" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Wuhan by Day 1, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Wuhan/._IGP4595_rs_m.jpg" alt="Wuhan by Day 2" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Wuhan by Day 2, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Wuhan/._IGP4597_rs_m.jpg" alt="My residence" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="My residence, Sep 2009" /></p>
<p>Some other pictures from Chengdu 成都 in Sichuan 四川 province where I spent some days. Those pictures where taken on a very recent spot of the very old Chengdu city about 6000 years ago.
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Chengdu/._IGP4576_rs_m.jpg" alt="Chengdu Symbol" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Chengdu Symbol, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Chengdu/._IGP4578_rs_m.jpg" alt="Chengdu Golden Mask" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Chengdu Golden Mask, Sep 2009" />
<img src="http://vincentinchina.blog.free.fr/public/Pictures/Chengdu/._IGP4584_rs_m.jpg" alt="Chengdu Statue" style="float:left; margin: 0 1em 1em 0;" title="Chengdu Statue, Sep 2009" /></p>