Shenzen

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Another big beautiful city with most of the city built in the last 30 years. City population is 17.5 million, greater metro are has 23.5 million people. It trails only Shanghai and Beijing in economic output. It has the 5th highest numbers of billionaires in the world. Its four main industries are finance, high tech, logistics, and culture. It’s the world’s 4th busiest container shipping port.

I took an excursion to Daren, a village one and a half hours outside of Shenzen. It’s famous for its 10,000 artists that have been painting “original” copies of old world masters works and selling them to many countries around the world. It was nice to get away from the glitz and glamour of the big cities. Daren also has lots of art studios teaching art to students of all ages.
Our excursion only had 5 of us tourists, a nice change from other excursions that had 20 in a group. We all got to do some painting and here I am, hard at work.
Results of my effort. The studio owner showed me how to write my name in Chinese on the left side of the painting.
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Rod and Patty Jenkins are retired and enjoy traveling. We hope you enjoy our posts as we we see different locations around the globe.

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