Jinli Street, an "ancient town" district in Chengdu, supposedly a commercial street dating back over 2000 years (the "First Street of the Shu Kingdom"), renovated in 2004 as more of a tourist-oriented district, it features traditional architecture and teahouses, restaurants, bars, boutiques, crafts and a "food street"

A woman washing her hair in the courtyard of a traditional Sichuan courtyard house in Chengdu

A whole line of riverside open-air (but covered) restaurants, bars, teahouses along one of the main rivers in central Dujiangyan City, about 60km northwest of Chengdu in Sichuan province

View down a laneway off Xinle Lu

Traffic on Caobao Lu

A hand cart loaded up with wicker chairs

Pushkin Statue in a little square (or rather triangular parkette) at Dongping Lu and Yueyang Lu south of Fuxing Zhong Lu in the French Concession

An old couple sitting on a bench in Xujiahui Park

View along Caoxi Lu with the Humin Elevated Rd above, near the Shanghai Ikea - the arched bridge is how the elevated metro Line 3 crosses the big roads here

A woman washing some shoes in a canal/river near the brigde on busy Tianlin Lu - the canal water did not look very clean and could be smelled from the bridge…. you get used to seeing such things in rural areas and villages, but in the middle of Shanghai it seems rather odd