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Figuring we could get to the area by bus, we asked a local bus driver where the building was by showing him the article. After reading the article he could not tell us what bus to take to get there.
Having no luck with the bus driver, we met our friendly Jiaoda (SW Jiaotong University) bus ticket lady and asked her. She read the article and explained where the building was. She also suggested we take a taxi which would be more convenient. The area we needed to go was really not that far, she told us.
This taxi driver knew where it was and so we got our ride to the area. It turned out to be quite close and on the way to the Catholic church which we were familiar with.
The building looked exactly like it did in the magazine. We did notice, however, some minor changes around the building with some of the old building depicted no longer standing.
We visited with some of the residents of the building. According this lady, there are several families now living in building and most were very poor. She said the building was built during World War II as a government office building of some kind. Several of the old buildings around this place had recently been torn down and replaced by a new middle school.
Mr. Tom also interviewed one of the residents of the building as well. His interviewee was very friendly and responded to his questions with enthusiasm.
We followed a lady down this alley between the old building and the new middle school.
We are definitely in a rural setting in this place. Corn stocks against a wall indicated this to us.
A farmers home next to the middle school presented us a calm and pleasant rural setting.
Several old and partially old buildings could be seen in the area.
Hey kid, haven't you ever seen a foreigner before?
We met this 87 year old great grandmother and she was happy for us to take her picture.
Granny was also still working at her age. She was healthy and happy and also very tough.
Portraits of an impressive Chinese Octogenarian. If only we could live as long and be as healthy.
The farmer and his family were very friendly and the farmer caught my attention with his traditional Sichuan smoking device.
A typical Sichuan rural home.
As we explored the area, we came across this scene on the small dirt path. So typical of rural China today.
Corn stocks used for fodder for animals were everywhere we looked.
Corn was also being dried throughout the rural areas.
After a quick exploring of the area we returned to the farmers house and took more pictures.
Sunee even tried out the well which the farmer said was very deep and supplied very good water for drinking and washing.
After our visit to the old building, we caught a bus back into town. Tom had an idea to visit another area close by but first we got some lunch.
After lunch, we came across the tea lady selling her tea on the street. Since we had bought tea from her before, Sunee decided to pick up some of her tea which we liked. Here Sunee is negotiating the price.
Tea anyone?
Following Tom, we again made our way into rural Sichuan. Here we spotted a common wall lizard which stopped and posed for this picture.
Along the way we saw several flocks of ducks wondering among the harvested fields.
As can be seen by this house, many of the area residence are doing ok.
Not much to see on our last trip into rural Sichuan. The mountains of Emei made a great backdrop as we wondered around in the agricultural area. Overall the trip was another Sichuan adventure, fun, exciting and interesting.
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