Souvenir Shopping

Since we leave China at the end of this week, we went hunting for souvenirs and gifts. We went back to Liulichangdong Street, with its refurbished Qing dynasty buildings, now mainly selling tourist items. The street is filled with the rickshaws looking for riders and salesmen pushing their wares that frequent this type of place, but at least today, the level of the sales-picthing was relatively mild. The part of the street to the west of Nan Xinhua is a little less intense, and we did most of our shopping here.


Decorated Store Front


Rickshaws and Tourists

A few doors down a back street right at the west end of the touristy part of Liulichangdong Street we wandered into a small shop which turned out to be the store of an artist who happily showed us his pieces and explained the stories behind the pictures. We swopped photo-rights: he took my picture and I took a picture of him and his wife.


Artist, Wife, and Paintings