Besides Dashilan Shopping street, there was also QianMen area which was a short walking distance from our hotel. We went there on our first morning, and what a pleasant place it was! From the start where the QianMen could be seen here, you could walk down a super huge and green road to the other end.
Look at the greeneries on both side of the QianMen Road. I though this was such a lovely place for a morning walk. Yeah, so this was early morning. This place becomes crowded in the late morning till night, and especially so in the weekends! Plus, the shops at both side of the road seems to be of a more high end shops, so we didn't really eat and shop here. But it's a very pleasant place for a stroll.
If you get tired of walking, there is also an old tram that goes up and down the whole road, so that's an option for you to explore the place too. If you're walking there, do beware of the tram too!
The more concrete part of some part of the road.
There is also a three storey Starbucks at the start of the QianMen Road. Actually I don't really know if it's operational since it looked like it was under renovation. Since we walked pass it quite a lot during our stay, I recall that they did open, it's just that maybe because of how the building looked, it kinda blend into the background as one of the historical monument of the place, lol.
Along the road was also dotted with these bronze historical figurines, showing you what it was like long time back at the same location. Yeah, one thing about China is, when they say in the old days, it could be hundreds if not thousands of years ago! The yardstick measurement here is very different from most of the rest of the world. It's pretty mind blowing!
Merchants and customers shopping on this street long time back.....
Emperors being carried on their chair for their shopping trip and being served by their servants.
Chinese medicine doctors taking a patient's pulse and prescribing herbal medicine for their ailments.
And me, with my pot-hole collection wherever I go!
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