I wanted to visit the People’s Park which has a lot of tea houses & generally many Chinese people being sociable. So I went to the nearest main street corner to hail a taxi. 40 mins later, after all the taxis went by full, an electric rickshaw driver approached for a lift. I bargained down from 45 yuan to 12 yuan & 10mins later was at the front gate of the park.
The park had a similar feeling to the Temple of Heaven gardens. People were congregating around either singing, dancing, playing cards/majong, splashing about in hired row boats, or simply drinking tea. Again there were few foreigners about & I noticed how many stares I received. The tea houses didn’t look very swish, & I must admit I was expecting a higher quality of tea house as it was so famous in this region. I did eventually take a seat & order some jasmine tea, which certainly wasn’t anything to write home about. Over tea, I watched the kids (& a couple of adults) playing with small fish nets trying to catch any kind of living creature from the pond. Only one kid was successful & he took it back to a small water bottle for saving.
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