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Strategies & Market Trends : Galapagos Islands -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bid Buster who wrote (22404)	1/21/2003 3:34:37 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 57110

it will blow you away... for me, it de-mystified the image that some pretend to perpetuate about the "mystic orient" it is as mundane and common as any other place on earth... of course it has incredible sights and sounds, but like us, they are as humans as we are... one thing that really impressed me was the sheer number people... i mean they were like ants.... millions of them and the taxi drivers... ? LOL they truly believe that their horns are equivalent to vaporizers from start trek -gg I mean, they go around at about 60 mph (or better) and sounding their horns and assume people either move out of the way, or they will be vaporized or "trasnported" to a different location so they will not hit them.... I arrived at night and the people who picked me up, took me to a hotel... after a 16 hour flight (or whatever it was, frankly I do not remember), I just wanted to sleep... next morning, we were going to take the train... so we go to the tarin station... and my, my, my.... the AMOUNT of people, it was incredible... I mean the entrance to the station looked like a giant mouth and people were simply being vomited by this giant... it was truly amazing... then, people had these... chickens (dead and without feathers...) hanging from their windows ... I believe they were covered in salt (or treated somehow), so they would not rot... and actually at some point, they ate them... it was certainly different but interesting... I enjoyed my visit there... too bad I did not know any Chinese to really grasp what they were saying.... I assume Chinese (or Japanese, and even the Arabic languages) to be more difficult simply because one would need to learn the symbols on top of the grammar, declinations and all that good stuff... a pity really, since much is lost in the ensuing lack of communication...