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Phavorite Photos: Chongqing at Night

A day or two before Joe Gresh and I began our ride across China on Zongshen RX3 motorcycles, the Chinese took us to dinner in Chongqing, the megacity in which the Zongshen company is located.  It was a typical summer night in Chongqing, which is to say it was hot, humid, and steamy. Sultry is a word that comes to mind.  Exotic is another one.

Chongqing is where two of the world’s great rivers meet (the Jialing and the Yangtze).  Downtown Chongqing is in the center.  We were returning from dinner on the south shore of the Yangtze River (the lower river in the map) when I grabbed the photo you see above with my Nikon.  Where it says Yuzhong…we were right about where the g is in that word.

Chongqing is huge.  How big?  We think New York is big (and it is) with 8 million people.  Chongqing has 34 million people.  It’s hard to imagine, and it’s hard to imagine we rode 250cc motorcycles through it (as well as many other Chinese megacities).  I like everything about Chongqing, and you’ll see more favorite photos from there in upcoming ExNotes blogs. But this one stands out for me.

You can read more about what we saw in China in Riding China.


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Joe Berk

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