The Old and the New

Tonight we rode our bikes from our neighborhood to the local Carrefour, passing through old and new China as we went. We first rode through a neighborhood in transition. The buildings had all been gutted and abandoned. They stood ready for demolition.

The next road we turned down was the old China, a small market road with little shops and stores. Traffic jams are the norm here as scooters, taxi's, vendor carts and pedestrians all try to make their way through the narrow lane.

At the end of this street rode into the new China: high rises, shopping malls, and Starbucks. The transition happens over one intersection; cross the road and the buildings are completely different.



We are sitting across the intersection looking back at the road we just biked down.




This is where we are parked. Next to the mall, banks, insurance companies and the like.