On day two in Jinzhou, I took a coach for the 40 minute drive to downtown Jinzhou.
Coaches are different than city transit buses. Everyone must sit in a seat. (If there are more passengers than seats, then folding seats may be placed in the aisle to accomodate them.}
This bus was different from the others I have been on because it had seat belts. (I have no idea what rules 1 to 3 were.
I saw new condo complexes along the river as we entered Jinzhou.
Seeing a deliveryman use his back to make heavy deliveries is common in China but it is unheard of in Canada.
These decorative planters are in front of a florist shop. They would look nice on a front lawn or on a condo balcony.
I was walking along a six-lane road in front of this seven-storey condo complex. The first two stories are for retail and commercial outlets with five residental stories on top. This will be a walk-up building; no elevators.
Look at how wide the sidewalks are. Unfortunately, they are the perfect size for parking cars and storing goods.
Looking down a side street, I saw a tall white tower with a large clock. I used this tower as a guide so I would not get lost.
Since trucks and cars park on the sidewalks, the pedestrians, including me, walk along the roads.
These photos may give you the the wrong idea that just white cars can park on the sidewalks. Since this sidewalk was full, this car was parked on the first lane of a busy intersection.
The white fence to the left is to discourage jaywalking. The traffic signs on the right informs drivers that there is a pedestrian crosswalk ahead and that they must not honk their horns.
The parked trucks and cars tells the pedestrians that they need to walk on the road.
This road is not to be used by motorcycles, three wheel commercial vehicles, electric scooters and hand carts.
Most Canadians would be pleasantly surprised by the number of churches that they will see in China.
This is a very large church complex that is just one block to the west of the first church that I saw.
A large temple in downtown Jinzhou. In the background there are yellow-coloured residental condos.
The brown building is a commercial building. The phone number on the side, 2708888 ends with four eights. In China you pay more money for a number that has a lot of eights, so this phone number is an important part of their adverising.
I was surprised to see razor wire on top of the temple’s tall walls.
This police station sits right beside the temple. With the cops next door, it still needs razor wire?
This is the first Chinese police station I saw that was not painted white with blue trim.
At this small construction site that is located on a side-street sidewalk. The workers are using steel scaffolding, not bamboo.
The worker on the road is throwing bricks, one by one, up to the worker standing on top of the scaffolding. The pile of bricks on the sidewalk must be eight feet tall.
There is no hoarding to protect the pedestrians who walk on the road. Neither worker is wearing safety shoes or a hard hat. The scaffolding does not have any fencing nor is the worker wearing a safety harness.
I have a friend who is a construction union representative. He would blow a head gasket if he saw this photo.
I saw this tiny electric three-wheeler parked outside a restaurant. I would like to see these type of vehicles sold in Canada’s cities.
They may not be a practical vehicle to take on a trip to Vancouver or to be used as a police pursuit car but as an urban grocery-getter, it would be ideal.
For lunch, I looked around the street. There were so many restaurants to pick from. I decided to try a Korean BBQ restaurant.
Chinese restaurants are so inviting. This one had a lovely fish tank.
Once you order your meal, the waitress brings a steel container full of hot charcoal to your table and sets it in a steel pot. Then she turns on an exhaust fan to suck up the fumes.
You cook your own vegetables, fish or meat. This is so clever. If the food is over cooked, you can’t blame the chef.
I will have to try a Korean restaurant in Toronto’s Yonge Street strip to see how it compares to this one.
Chinese train and bus stations are huge and Jinzhou’s main station is no exception.
Unlike China’s larger cities, Jinzhou does not have subways, LRTs or streetcars. The local bus service is excellent and I easily found the bus that would took me back to the seashore.
Once there, I took a tuktuk back to my rented condo.
Another large residental district that sits along the side of a river.
This taxi uses the tidal bridge and Mount Bijia as a logo. Two China Post trucks are parked in front of a post office.
I saw this gazebo in a large public park. Chinese cities put in a lot of effort in making beautiful public parks.
This park also has a lot of these simple, inexpensive but very effective excercise machines. Good for young and old, you will see these machines in parks all over China.
Unlike professional gyms, these machine are free to use.