Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Shibaozhai Pagoda


April 19, 2012

We walked from the boat and passed people selling food and fruit. Many people buy their breakfast on the street because it is quick and easy.


 
We were walking to an very old pagoda. We stopped by the gate to take a picture.


 
It was a long walk and the road was very steep. People kept wanting for us to pay to put the “baby” on their chairs so they could carry the “baby” on the long walk.  Nobody in the group was younger than me so they meant ME!  I told them, “Baby can walk.”  

 
We entered a park place where they had the heads of the Chinese zodiac animals. Since I was born in 2000 I took a picture with the head of a dragon.  The Chinese say I am a dragon child.
 
There was a another big gate leading to the bridge.

 
We had to cross a bridge to get to the Shibaozhai Pagoda’s island.  It was wobbly.  They had wrapped some of the red bridge in shiny gold cloth.  When you walked on the bridge it would swing back and forth.  I wanted to make it swing.  It was a suspended bridge. Noni didn’t like the bridge. 

On the way up to the pagoda there was a lookout point with a pointy Chinese roof.

 
The Shibaozhai Pagoda was red.  It had big holes in it to see out. 

 
There were a lot of stairs. There were nine floors in the pagoda. Nine is a lucky number in China.

When we left the pagoda we went back to the boat.  There were some people on the path selling trinkets.  Pop Pop bargained with one of them until they gave up and gave him a good price.

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