I made it to the natural history museum today. Quite interesting but a bit sad and freaky too. Most of the exhibits are quite old and tattered. Although they have a lot of dinosaur fossils, which is great if you like old bones. If you don't well too bad! The sad bits came from the aquarium where they have a pair sea turtles in a really small pool and a really depressed looking giant salamander. Check out the pics below! The freakiest bit was the Human Body exhibit where they had real live dead bodies! I shit you not - there were complete bodies, bits of bodies, bits of bits and even 3 or 4 babies. Very weird and morbidly fascinating - for me anyway. The other thing here was that the exhibit was filled with primary school kids (live ones!!) who weren't freaked out at all. In fact they were more scared by the motorized Tyrannosaurus Rex! This wouldn't happen at home methinks.
But enough of that. We finished the day by having drinks at the NZ embassy which is close by our apartment. I don't know if I mentioned before that we live in one of the two special 'embassy areas' in Beijing. They were set up to keep all the 'foreign devils' in one place so they couldn't get up to any mischief. Anyhoo, the Kiwis have drinks for NZ citizens and their guests once a month which is a really cool way of making connections. I met some really interesting people (like the NZ military attache) and course had several cordials (read beers) which was jolly nice.
I think that's about it for the time being so I'll bugger off and leave you with some photos from todays little excursion. See if you can guess which one is the arse of a giant rhinoceros!!
Cheers
TONE
Those Salamanders look cool, shame that they're kept in shit conditions like that turtle. Looking at human bodies sounds cool, any of them skinned?
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