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2025.03.23 - Hengqin - Sanxingdui Exhibit
Sunday, 23 March 2025 22:56 I've actually been to the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan, but I don't know why I don't have it in my Flickr albums.
Anyway, back in 2014, I went on a company trip to Sichuan, and there part of the tour was a visit to the Sanxingdui Museum. I really liked the exhibits there but they only had main titles in English and not much explanation in English, and my Chinese reading skills were way way way worse back then, so I vowed I would go again.
It so happens they did go to Hong Kong once (which I didn't know of) and then to Macau (I had planned to go but when I wanted to go it was over) and now it was in Hengqin. It's near enough, so I thought I might as well make a trip out of it.
It was a full trip of taking the newfangled Light rail from peninsula side to Cotai side then switch trains to the Hengqin Border. Took an uber to the Museum location, which wasn't that far away, could have walked there in 15 minutes, but, lucky I didn't, as later I was so spent... guess I'm not fully recovered yet.
But it's the same case as before, they only had a few titles in English, but now I can read a little more Chinese, so I'm still glad I came all the way here.
Again it was a rookie move to come on a Sunday, but my Sis wanted to come and our day offs only coincide on Sundays (she has Sundays and Mondays off, I have the usual Saturdays and Sundays).
All very fascinating stuff.
I found a way to take slightly better photos of the exhibits, and it was to tone down the brightness. This way the people disappeared.
Pretty cute figurines
But even in Chinese, there wasn't exactly much explanation on each and every item.
This totem pole is a 3D print replica.
The gift shop had a hilarious design of this chicken as part of their merchandise. I didn't get any though.
Something different, this was in the section of lacquer stuff.
And this was the funniest thing I saw... it's actually part of the toy model set, and they designed that these statues are playing mahjong.
I mucked around with the map app and decided we could just walk back towards the border area. There's a... shopping mall there. We had lunch in the al fresco first, but should have gone in immediately because there were more interesting things inside.
Such as this doggie bench LOL.
There was a Spar supermarket, it amused us to no end to see an European brand supermarket here, but none of the Spar products. We saw quite a bit of foreigners here, and I guess they probably are staff or students from the University of Macau, because the University campus is on this side (though the access is a bit roundabout).
We decided to have some dessert before leaving
We left home around 10ish and came back home maybe 3ish? but I'm totally destroyed with this short trip. I need some more time to recuperate, I guess!
Anyway, back in 2014, I went on a company trip to Sichuan, and there part of the tour was a visit to the Sanxingdui Museum. I really liked the exhibits there but they only had main titles in English and not much explanation in English, and my Chinese reading skills were way way way worse back then, so I vowed I would go again.
It so happens they did go to Hong Kong once (which I didn't know of) and then to Macau (I had planned to go but when I wanted to go it was over) and now it was in Hengqin. It's near enough, so I thought I might as well make a trip out of it.
It was a full trip of taking the newfangled Light rail from peninsula side to Cotai side then switch trains to the Hengqin Border. Took an uber to the Museum location, which wasn't that far away, could have walked there in 15 minutes, but, lucky I didn't, as later I was so spent... guess I'm not fully recovered yet.
But it's the same case as before, they only had a few titles in English, but now I can read a little more Chinese, so I'm still glad I came all the way here.
Again it was a rookie move to come on a Sunday, but my Sis wanted to come and our day offs only coincide on Sundays (she has Sundays and Mondays off, I have the usual Saturdays and Sundays).
All very fascinating stuff.
I found a way to take slightly better photos of the exhibits, and it was to tone down the brightness. This way the people disappeared.
Pretty cute figurines
But even in Chinese, there wasn't exactly much explanation on each and every item.
This totem pole is a 3D print replica.
The gift shop had a hilarious design of this chicken as part of their merchandise. I didn't get any though.
Something different, this was in the section of lacquer stuff.
And this was the funniest thing I saw... it's actually part of the toy model set, and they designed that these statues are playing mahjong.
I mucked around with the map app and decided we could just walk back towards the border area. There's a... shopping mall there. We had lunch in the al fresco first, but should have gone in immediately because there were more interesting things inside.
Such as this doggie bench LOL.
There was a Spar supermarket, it amused us to no end to see an European brand supermarket here, but none of the Spar products. We saw quite a bit of foreigners here, and I guess they probably are staff or students from the University of Macau, because the University campus is on this side (though the access is a bit roundabout).
We decided to have some dessert before leaving
We left home around 10ish and came back home maybe 3ish? but I'm totally destroyed with this short trip. I need some more time to recuperate, I guess!
