One Day Trip at Beijing - China Tour V

Jai Gurudev !!

Since the place was new and due to the language problem , we just thought we would go a one day trip package for sightseeing organised by the local Chinese private trip organisers , during the weekend instead of us venturing to go out ourselves .
But, later on realised , that was not a wise idea !! Because , it was not organised as a sight seeing trip but more of a trip to trap us to buy the things marketed by the government supported industries.
Looks like a lot of commision oriented business going on in the back stage !!

The  Taxi which was supposed to pick us up on that saturday morning 9 AM , reached our hotel only by 10.30 AM.The lady who accompanied us were bargaining for some extra bugs , so that  she would cover few more other places too. After all such drama ,finally we started  off  with a group consisting of 9 people - an Iran lady & her bro' , a Bengali girl & her dad , two girls from Sweden apart from us three  and headed towards our first spot - The Silk Market !!.
 

Silk Market

Silk Worm Stages

Silk from cocoon

The entrance was like a House , to look at  . At the lobby was a demonstartion going on about the various growth stages of the silkworm  and they broke open a cocoon and pulled out the silk yarn out of it. China Silk is a very familiar name in our market even in those days.
 
 

Quilts

The Quilts ,very soft and of high quality were displayed and the prices were not less than Rs.16000 .
 
 
 
 
 
 


At Silk Market wondering if anything can be bought ?

It is needless to say , we just quit the place by just having a look at it.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The next stop was , as you guess , the next marketing trap ...the Pearl Shop or industry.
Similar to the silk worm industry , they grow the Oysters to get the pearls .I remembered our Hyderabad Pearls .

Oysters grown for pearls in the oyster pond

A Lady cuts open an oyster , which is about two years old and to our surprise ,we found around 5 to 6 small round pearls inside it . She said , with the age of the oyster , the size of the pearl obtained from it will be of bigger size.
   
Pearls in various sizes and colours were displayed for sale in form of different jewellery . But it looked very costly for us . They take the people in groups , according to the agent who bring them in seperate cabins and do the marketing. All ladies oriented business !!
The jewellery design division was also there . It's a  big market run by the Governement itself.
 


Attractive girls marketing

Also the pearl cream for youth complexion and  to remove wrinkles and other cosmetics using pearl were kept for sale and young ladies do vigorous marketing there. Like initially they say , one cream  bottle for 200 yuans and then they come down a little to 2 cream bottles for 200 yuans and finally we bargained with the help of the Iran Lady , as one cream bottle for 50 yuans plus a pearl pendant as compliment !! The Pearl cream looks like it consists of pearl shaped granules inside and we need to apply one such pearls to our face itseems. After bringing here , when I opened , the odour which emanates from that cream is very strong and my husband said , beware of the lead contents which might present in it. And I had kept it aside and am yet to try that cream ..
 
The next spot in the trip package was the famous Olympic stadium , which I shall continue in my next post ..

Love & smiles...