Flutterby™! : More Hong Kong

Hoping I get this typed before I run out of time. Today we went up to Dong Guan. I should have been suspicious when they said "fill in 'Tour' for your reason, it'll make the visa easier to get". But yesterday evening it was "we'll never get a whole computer through customs. Find a nondescript bag and we'll carry parts." So we took the KCR up to Shenzen, then had a driver take us further in. Oh, my. Boston has nothing on driving in China. Lanes are taken as merest suggestions. If you might have to take a U-turn, people just drive the wrong way down a divided highway, including coming up the entrance ramp, to make the turn they want.

But actually (and the few images I felt comfortable taking are still uploading), what most surprised me was how much like Burning Man it was. Lots of wacky pedal-powered contraptions, various vehicles which looked like carts pulled by the guts of a roto-tiller. Shacks that were definitely destined for the next province if a big storm ever hit.

And, of course, nobody does class separation like the communists. Lunch was authentic Chinese on a big lazy susan in the middle served by women in uniforms who were constantly replacing our under-plates whenever anything fell out of the rice bowl onto it. And the private guards stood, clicked heels and saluted us whenever we went in or out of a building.