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Wuzhen, inside:
Dr. Chen said the village was supposed to be 1,000 years old, but I could swear in some of the buildings we saw TVs. Yes, in the buildings people were living; it was somewhat like putting walls around a really old neighborhood and charging admission to get in. These canals ran between the buildings; we saw someone washing clothes in the water. We just before dusk, so we didn't get a chance to see the whole place (and the fading light made picture-taking tricky, as you'll see in other albums). But there was no shortage of booths with vendors!

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Wuzhen, Thursday, late afternoon:
After not one but two practices earlier in the day (and, of course, two buffets), the bus took us out to this tourist site in the middle of not much, a preserved ancient village in the town of Wuzhen, east of Jiaxing. [Posing out front: Saul, Justine, Wila, Hans, Brian, Dee, (kneeling) Beverly and Froi.]