{"id":266,"date":"2008-04-10T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=266"},"modified":"2008-04-10T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T14:30:15","slug":"day-298-chongqing-dazu-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Day 298 &#8211; Chongqing \/ Dazu, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did a organized tour to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dazu_Rock_Carvings\">Dazu Rock Carvings<\/a>. Since it was a Chinese tour, the first stop was at a rundown temple where they would try to charge big money for good wishes and the like. After that it was the included lunch of 8 dishes. I ate like crazy here since there was plenty of food!<\/p>\n<p>Then we went to the carvings area. The tour guide spoke in Chinese. There were a couple Chinese people in the group that spoke English and they explained a few things to me. All the carvings were impressive. Nothing quite like this in Japan or Korea or other countries I visited.<\/p>\n<p>I was dropped off in the center of the city after the tour. I went to look for a new lens for my camera. Heading towards the huge Canon sign, I found a shop but they refused to help me because I couldn&#8217;t ask in Chinese. So I looked for another store and I noticed a Canon sign in a bookstore. I was able to by a Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II lens for $114. It is Canon&#8217;s cheapest and lightest lens, but still a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I did a organized tour to the Dazu Rock Carvings. Since it was a Chinese tour, the first stop was at a rundown temple where they would try to charge big money for good wishes and the like. After that it was the included lunch of 8 dishes. I ate like crazy here since &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 298 &#8211; Chongqing \/ Dazu, China&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}