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Known primarily because of its incredible development, the city still has an old part, squeezed in between high rise buildings, where you can find life as it has been going on for centuries.
For now, life in the streets goes on as it has for a long time. Walking here is a sheer pleasure for the curious eyes of the visitor. Old women in traditional clothes, a small dog looking at the world from within a bicycle basket, people cycling by, cooks preparing food in an open kitchen: an endless assault on your senses. We turned into an alley, and continued meandering through narrow streets and alleys, with some very quiet corners and lanes where laundry was hanging to dry. We stumbled upon a garbage collection point, and realized that the people coming here with a potty were actually dumping its contents into a special container in the wall. Hard to imagine there is no proper sanitation in this area of one of the fastest developing metropoles on the planet. We encountered many colourful people in the street, always very friendly, and once again I would have loved to be able to speak the language. Still, we enjoyed seeing people having lunch in the street, cooking, cycling the narrow lanes, playing Chinese chess, negotiating about a bicycle (or so it seemed), and much more. When we reached the end of one of the lanes in this maze of alleys, we abruptly found ourselves at the doorstep of Sun Wonderland, a set of apartment blocks with golden roofs rising high above the Old City. We realized that we had reached the other side of the attractive labyrinth of the old part of town.
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