"Dinosaurs Along The Silk Road" -- Sinofossa 2009 4: Zhoukoudian (Peking Man)
After the Beijing Zoo, we went to the Peking Man site called Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing. This is the site of the first discoveries of Homo erectus in Asia, and the place is beautiful! The museum is very well done, too.
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On the way to Zhoukoudian, we ran into (almost literally) some sort of street fair. It would have been interesting to stop and see what kinds of wares were being peddled...but famous fossil sites wait for no one!
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