Zhongzhou is a much smaller city than Shanghai. Population is only ten million! As we look out our hotel window, construction of highways and high rises is everywhere. All empty of cars and people!
Having taken a well earned break from touring the previous day, we now spent a very enjoyable visit to the Henan Museum, one of the major museums in China and the largest centre for the collection, protection, study and display of cultural relics. In December 2007, archaeologists came across the first cranium fossil of prehistoric humanity ever found in Henan Province. Tests show that the fossil belongs to an early Homo sapiens dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years ago filling a gap in the evolutionary trail of man. The museum also houses an impressive display of bronze and porcelain artefacts thousands of years old which deserved a much longer visit than the time we had. However, another bullet train awaited our arrival for a four and a half hour lightning fast ride to Suzhou, the Venice of the East. We are now well practised in the art of getting suitcases on and off bullet trains.
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