Yesterday evening was "New Years Eve" here in China - the biggest holiday in this country. Many people had left town (just 7 millions left...) and gone to their home town for the "Spring Festivals".
This is quite an interesting logistic puzzle - moving 115 million people from north to south, from east to west in just a few days and move them again again after a week.
Was very interested to see the fireworks used here and the firework over Beijing during the night.
Well the size and numbers available was far over exceptions - some of these boxes You
hardly can lift. There are sold i many street-corners in Beijing but are here quite expensive.Taking a car 1 hrs drive out from town will get the prices down to less then 33%..
Before "the blast off" we spend dinner my Shizhitings family and relatives at a Chinese restaurant having a lot to eat.
BLAST OFF! It started already around 8 in the night av was going on for 6 hrs.
Amazing but very loud fire works all over the the town.
The sky was quite clear inn afternoon but after midnight it was totally grey and you could smell the the powder every where: I am happy I do not have to clean the streets today....
