We are here at Beijing at the Panjiayuan Market probably or commonly known as the dirt market. It’s only at Saturdays and Sundays. We’ve been here many, many times and it is a real happening market. Now you have to bargain with everybody. Most of the things are not real but it doesn’t make any difference because we will find a great souvenir and it’s a lot of fun.
For example, it is only 8 a.m. This people were coming at 6 a.m. and it gets so crowded during the day that you can’t even walk. Now, if you come out of here without something, you are a much better person than I am. I already told that I would break my arms if I say, “Oh! I got to have this.”
You want to walk around the perimeter where it’s reputable between the countryside and perhaps just maybe to find something. Never mind public transportation. A taxi runs about $3.00 from any hotel.
Who sells this painting? I would want to frame anything. You could notice to get you during the people here are Asian. Many, many dealers come here. They know what they’re looking for and looking for something really, really old and this might be the place that you cold find something. I don’t know I just pick up something that I like.
But we’ve been here exactly one hour so far. I waved a wake up in to the middle of the course. Finished with the little rd area and now we’re getting to the point where you actually have row after row of these or old flints from to that.
What they did is everybody, every herdsmen, everybody had to carry one. So what you did is you pin it up and you carried a little Flintstones on the inside and then scraped it across the bottom there to make fire. So it wouldn’t make any difference where you were. You can make your own fire while you’re out there in the wilderness. Many, many different kind of old clothes for sale, all these are to button purses.
In that section you’ll see that things like old armor. There are about five aisles with nothing but porcelains, slates, and plates. I’m already booked, Chinese furniture section, with older and newer rice box and chests.
We’ve been here two hours. Haven’t even made a dent here and it’s really, really studding the crowd of. Curler, something really big. There are men with carts who will be very, very happy to help you transport everything.
It’s going to be one of the very end to pass all the goods of all the stalls on the inside, you come to the furniture section and I can’t begin to tell you how inexpensive Chinese furniture is here compared to back home. I’m already lusting over a piece that’s about $80.00 and older and table which is we’re thinking how would we get it home? These are rice boxes that they use to scoop rice and emerge your rice and we bought them last time. But you got to be really careful because about two years after we have one sitting on our counter, we discovered like little piles of sand and it did turned out that it had an infestation. So watch it, any little things.
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