* women sweep the parking lots wearing high heels / platform shoes
* Chinese tourists trudge into the woods to see the Michael Jackson monkeys wearing slippers or heels.
* there are 2 types of small towns around here: quaint wooden villages and not-quaint commercial centers
* everyone eats rice noodles for breakfast
* pigs get walked along the road in the morning. If you hit a pig with your car, you pay for the pig
* beer only comes in the 2% or 3% variety. Pot is a medicinal plant that grows by the side of the road.
* Chinese have an extraordinary ability to sit on tiny 8" stools to eat all their meals
* you never know when you'll spot a camel. Or a water buffalo.
* Selecting a restaurant is done by sauntering into the kitchen and inspecting the available foods. You might even get to select the fish to kill.
* on this side of the village : wooden village; other side: cement factory compound that looks like Oz's Tower from a distance.
* the government will plop down high rise living right next to sleepy village.
* I guess deodorant isn't a thing here.
* no one swims in the river.
* real haystacks: not machine-rolled bales
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Interesting! Are there camels in China?
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