Qingdao Holiday (青岛) – Day 2

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
Continuing on from part one. Here are the photos from Day 2, which include a trip to the aquarium, a dinosaur park and a small “snack street.”

Qingdao Holiday Map - Day 2
Day two’s map, for those interested.

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
Made our way to the Polar World aquarium, which has a strange dinosaur park next to it. We decided to check it out.

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Dinosaurs galore!

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This was the toilet building; very cool!

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Three photos thrown together.

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Thats a big dinosaur!

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Outside the aquarium, a cool fountain.

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Inside…a polar bear!

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…and a gazillion Chinese people!

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P…p…p…pick up a penguin!

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or a few!

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Penguin poop!

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Quite a bored looking polar wolf.

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B with some penguins.

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Some of the cool scenery.
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Some kind of animal.

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Some of the Chinglish signage.

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Feeding time!

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That’s a big ol’ fish tank!

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That’s a big ol’ sea turtle.

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That’s a big ol’… SHARK!!!

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
Was photographing this when…

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…I spotted this!

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Pretty!

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Not so pretty.

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Watching one of the shows.

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
Jesus had a twin; who knew!

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
False alarm. It’s just people using animals as surf boards. Is that more, or less offensive?!

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Some of the crowd meeting the animals. One thing that really impressed me is how they made them wash their hands in a sink of the tank-water before they could touch them. China isn’t hugely into health and safety, especially for non-humans, so… this made me feel a lot better about the place.

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Obligatory jumping dolphin photo.

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and another.

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They can jump HIGH.

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I want to be able to swim and produce this kind of wake.

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Works for backstroke too!

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Then, outside for another show.

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More jumping fishies!

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These ones even waved goodbye. Dolphins are so over-rated.

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Guy on the left; break dancing. Guy on the right; doing sit-ups. Dolphins — so last year.

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Vuvuzela training.

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Hiding his head in shame.

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Amazing how you can read this sign. Then you realise; it’s the worst English evar.

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Couldn’t get my head around this snack. Half ice-cream. Half meat. All wrong.

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Cool uniforms.

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Catchin some hoopz.

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Makin a splash!

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Weird eyes.

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Contrasting buildings.

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This European looking building was the german HQ during their control of Qingdao…

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This one, wasn’t.

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This cool little area roughly translates as “log burning alley” and it was some very tight twisty alleys of restaurants and gift vendors. Quite quaint.

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
More of the same.

Qingdao (青岛) Holiday day 2
Finally, on the bus on the way back to the hotel I saw this. A little piece of Britain in China. A trip to Wikipedia revealed that B&Q are the largest DIY depot in both the UK and China. In the UK, it’s understandable: They have 331 stores. But in China, they accomplish this feat with only 63 stores, and China is MASSIVE. I guess DIY isn’t very popular in China; after all — labour is so cheap.

Part three coming soon.

P.S: Bye bye England. 🙁 Watched the game in the same place as last time. That entire street of Chinese people can now say, fluently; “THE REF IS TOTALLY BLIND, WHAT THE ****?!!!!”

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