Our second day in Chengdu found us going to Jiangli Street - this time during the day. I was glad we were able to see it both in day time and night time. We spent more time finding souvenirs to bring home! We could have easily spent 2 hours here, but only spent about an hour and a half.
After Jiangli Street we went to The People's Park. Here there are lots of green spaces, a small creek, areas for bands and dancing, and tea houses. The dancing area may have 4-5 bands all next to each other playing their music as loudly as possible - the retired folks are dancing - some are in costume, some just enjoying the music.
Retirement ages are a good bit younger in CHina than USA. Women retire at age 50, if they've had a physically hard job, otherwise it's age 55. Men at ages 60 and 65. So there are many more people just out and about and not working.
Gotta run we are off to the airport!
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