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RE: Traveling in China Part IV: The ancient walled city of Pingyao (original work)
Dude, image 19 from the top down is really good. I felt that one. Might be my favorite image I have seen on Steemit yet. No fn joke. Really great work. Off subject, how was the air quality when you went? My kids are in a bilingual school learning mandarin and we plan on going there in the next year or two but have heard horror stories of tourist adapting to the air quality. I just gave you well deserved promotion. Hey, thanks again.
Thanks so much @runrudy, that is such a huge compliment! I'm glad you like the post :) As for air quality, I have to be honest, it wasn't good. Especially in big cities like Beijing or Shanghai, the stories are kinda true unfortunately. We were in China for three and a half weeks and if we had stayed any longer I would have started wearing a mask like many of the locals do. A big part of what makes it bad is that it just seems to be very dusty everywhere. In rural towns or areas away from the cities it wasn't bad, but yeah, anywhere near or in a city was very dusty, and pollution is a big problem there.