I have never seen more than 6 on one motorcycle
Interesting vehicle (there are many) going down the road.
Most trucks are blue.
Unbelievable! I saw so…. many wild and crazy things, I could write a book. What was suppose to be a 7 hour adventure, 2 hours to IKEA in Guangdong 3 hours shopping, 2 hours back ended up taking a total of 14 hours! Our driver had no clue how to get back home and apparently he couldn’t read the signs that we could read telling us how to get on the freeway. The school Interpreter fell asleep on the bus so … After 2 hours on the bus we had covered less than 10 km through the heart of Guangdong, kind of like driving down Seattle’s Aurora but much more colorful. If there is a long, slow way to do things the Chinese will find it. They are wonderful people and smile at everything, trying to be very helpful but this is a very unorganized society. On driving, “I will never drive in China.” Lets just say driving in China is crazy!!! You see everything from people sweeping the freeway with no warning signs or orange safety vest even to the semi on a divided four-lane freeway that was in our far right lane and headed toward us at about the same 50 mph that we were going down the road! We changed lanes and avoided it, he just continued on. Our driver stopped twice in heavy traffic and ran over to other drivers to ask directions. People where darting in and out of traffic on foot trying to sell just about anything. One guy had phone chargers for sale hanging on a wire hanger. Horns are used as the universal signal for any and all situations. The roads are primarily filled with buses and small to large trucks most of them faded blue. IKEA was just like any IKEA accept they had 5 times as many employees. The simplest task I observed was the job of dusting the plastic wrap on items. Oh! the other thing is that all large objects are kept in a warehouse that is a two-hour drive from the store. This meant that much of what people bought had to be trucked to us later. This made the whole process slightly more difficult.
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I love the 3 guys on the motorcycle, you see that all the time. In Vietnam we saw a family riding on a bike -
Dad driving
Mom behind him
Baby in mom's arms
Son in front of dad
Daughter hanging on to mom
That was the most we saw on a bike at a time.
Concerning the driving technique used in China: It's like much of the rest of world outside of N America & Europe. Here is a link to a diagram that might help you figure where not to be while in China! http://soimgoingtochina.blogspot.com/2007/06/beijing-traffic-lesson-left-turn.html
Good luck to the both of you in your teaching endeavours!
You must travel to Yangshou (Guilin), Lijiang, Xian, Kunming, Chengdu, Zhongdian (Shangr-la), Yichang, Beijing, and my favorite, Shanghai while living in China.
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