Les aventures en inde!

The preparation/Arrival in india:
how to have so much trouble all at once?

-my car was first refused on the controle techique for rust on brakes.. hummm funny.(it had rained a lot and the control buildings were on top of a hill, i don't remember ever braking hard with the car even once to get there from home)
-my suitcase got lost once arrived in New Delhi. i received it 24 h after arrival, the stickers showed it was sent from brussels the day after i departed!, shame on them i checked in 2h30 before take off, i remember telling the hostess that there was a bag stuck in the rolling carpet behind her desk. is that related to my bag problem?
-Sarah's plane had a flat tyre in China, resulting in her flight's cancellation. it was delayed god knows how many times. She therefore decided to buy another ticket and cancel the previous.

-Later during the visit, at Jodaipur, i send my clothes for cleaning but they did not pick up everything! since the next days we were going to be changing hotel, there was no way to get it cleaned again so i had to clean it the old fashioned way. great.

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Sightseeing:

D1 Delhi (no Sarah yet)
i had my first lonely day in New Delhi, or should i say crazy day.
Rickshaws are really harassing me, but not only them, everyone hanging out in the street talks to me once i stop and open a map!
it is disturbing and annoying and all i want is run away from them. because at the end i am distracted and i go in the wrong direction.
-roundabouts are dangerous, not only for pedestrians but also for cars. i ll shoot a video. ps... run if you are a pedestrian, or really have 360 degrees vision, i am thinking about grafting an eye in my back.

i saw the National Railways museum of New Delhi.
:) much bigger than the one in Beijing!
took lots pics
i had to walk 14 km to get there and see all the things on the side, Ambassies, gardens... and i must have walked too much as my foot got swallen.. not a good start.

Day 2:

(at night)
1h37 taxi picks me up at hotel
2h15 i arrive at the ARRIVALS screen of new delhi airport. delay of the plane : 3h30.. glups! 1 h later delay on screen = 3h45, after 1h30 waiting, delay is 3h33! precisely... after 2 h 10 ish Sarah SMSed me she had landed in New Delhi :)
5h ish back at hotel and discussions and deserved dodo til 9h10... (less than 3 h sleep)

turns out the original flight had not yet taken off! lack of crew she had booked her flight on lastminute.com and once in new delhi she skyped to the company and made her cancellation insurance work. 6-8 weeks wait before refund! glups she found another return flight too. wooow that is adventure

we followed the day by gathering courage to visit south side of New Delhi :)
- my feet hurt!

d3:
Driver pick up at Delhi's hotel and visit of Agra, the tomb of Akbar ?, the Taj Mahal, baby Taj, some random manufacture of marble with semi precious stone incrustations. we bought some gifts :) the funny thing is the guide received an enveloppe - money ! for getting us there. usual practice in india, however we still feel exploited.

D4-5:
Fatehpur Sikri
Jaipur,
Amber Fort, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Hawa Mahal, Albert Hall, Birla Mandir (?)


by the end of the day, the driver told us, "i know good place, sells good things" ok, let s have a look inside, no real choice, he drove us there keeping it kind of mysterious. It turned out to be a Jewelry, after watching some things, we found a nice violet amethyste that sarah liked, so i said ok, mount it for a necklace. the price was ok, 4500 inr. they said it was fine to have it mounted and delivered by the evening. a bit later and after lots discussions, we agreed on the silver holder. I was paying when one of the assistant came back with the thing and said that it was impossible to have it done before the next day in the afternoon. Glad i had not paid yet. They still tried to sell us others mounted stones but we did not like it as much. So we left and our driver did not have a commission. On the internet, we saw similar stones for much cheaper...



In the evening, we were KO and slept right after coming back to the hotel at 7 pm untill dinner.


Day 6 : Pushkar

Sarah is sick, (bugs, food poisoning?). i am just recovering.
hope sarah will not vomit anymore in islamic sites ... ( in Ajmer)

carbobel has limited curative effects. we only eat fruits, vegetables, bread, rice.
there are so many impressive stuff to see that we force ourselves to stand up.
it is hot and not a cloud in the sky. not too many mosquitos so far...

Our driver is strange. he want s to tell us what to do and tries to skip some of the visits on the list.

So many people try to call us " Hello, Hello..." is is so annoying.
a lot want to take pictures with us " several times i answeared " do we know you?" and turned away. they even tried when sarah was about to vomit, looking pale ( of course and holding her belly. i had to control myself not to tell them to go to hell and said " it is not a good moment!" i have lost the count of how many times i ignored peoples now.

D7-8: Jodhpur
Clock Tower & Sadar Market,
Mehrangarh Fort, Jaswant Thada & Umaid Bhawan,



Day 9
Ranakpur
visit of a superb temple ! 1440 pilars all with sculptures. i must have not turned off my camera more than 30 sec total while there.

Outside I was asked where I was from by a guard, I said Belgium, the guy asked, so you use euros, hummmmm that was a trick to try to exchange the euros into roupees…do I look like a bank?

later we arrived in Udaipur (city palace, boat trip on the lake, crystal gallery (amazing crystal pieces from a bed to a chair to lots of glasses)
it was annoying the amounts of guards whisteling at us, go here, not there, and the best of all: whenever we asked more detailed questions like which way is it to go to that temple, the answer of the guards was repeatedly 'YES'. Us: ‘Where is...?’ – the guard: ’Yes’. not helping.


Day 11
we just arrived at our initial hotel again after an overnight sleeper train trip from Udaipur to Delhi.

“Delhi 2 - Le retour”
Humayun's Tomb
national museum,
crafts muzeum: original museum with lots artefacts. We crossed the path of a girl 's school expedition and it was striking that therse little indian girls had never seen a white women with long hair like Sarah has. She had a lot of success and they all wanted to shake her hands. I like to think that the reason for her success is she wore the same purple/pink colors as the school dress of the girls.
PS: i was totally ignored :( perhaps because i was not dressed in purple.... ;)

Day 12,
in the evening, sleeper train trip to Amritsar,
We first stepped into the golden temple express which was not our train! because of train delays that train was announced to depart at the exact same time as our ticket said, which was very confusing. Our train left 1h later. The train is shaky and not always stable to sleep into but it was fine, if you forget about the strange guy on the other side of the compartment that did not stop looking at Sarah and left in the middle of the night without turning off the lights…

in the morning, as i was on the top couchette, i leaned down and saw sarah fixing her hair quietly on the bed under mine. Somehow the only sound that came out of my mouth was some kind of grave sound that scared her so much that she instantly kicked me in the face... If i was a dog, i would have walked the tail between the legs for a while that day...

day 13:
Amritsar,
I got very sick and stayed at the hotel for 1h30 after exploring from the top of the bathroom WC what I had not eaten for breakfast together with the bottow of my stomack. Meanwhile, Sarah decided to go ahead and get lunch in a resto not too far where she met an Australian guy who apparently was very nice until he made funny unexplained comments about USA’s journalists freedom of speech which made it all awkward to her. She later met me back at the hotel ready to go for visit after a nap.
We went to the commemorative garden where the british made a massacre in 1919 and booked the trip to the Pakistan/Indian border for the ceremony of the closure of the border. See Awesome video from Sarah’s cam.

Day 14
The (Sikh) golden temple

In order to enter the place, you have to purify yourself, therefore, you must wash your hands and your feet, which I was not too happy about, and the saw it so I had to pass through the waterfeetbath. Also I was not allowed to wear my hat, the guard found a foulard for me … pink!
We entered and sat to look at the yellow temple in the middle of the artificial lake when a guard came and told Sarah she had to cross her legs while seated. Later I was told that I had to sit the Indian way ( yoga style?) try to understand… they certainly had a lot of fun with us. No need to say that it is easy to be sick of being told what to do all the time.

After 1 h of pushing in the line to get to the golden temple in the crowd that pushes and passes you as soon as you let them a little mouse space. We finally entered the temple and it was really beautiful, (no pictures allowed  ) we tried to stay as long as possible to admire it. We also went on the roof to discover the white marble was incrusted with semi precious stones like on the Taj Mahal. On some specific places touched by a lot of peoples, one can see the gold has disappeared to show the underlying copper support.

That night we took another sleeper train back to Delhi.
We though we would not make it! The train car we had on our ticked did not exist! We walked along the entire train and did not find it. Finally, Sarah found our names on a listing stuck on the AB1 car (and not HA1) it took us 15 min to find it. Once in, we got to our compartment and installed ourselves on our bottom allocated beds. Later that night some people came on the top side. Until +/- 2h30 when a couple of old people which did not speak any english woke me up because the handicaped old lady did not want (even did not try) to go to the upper bed and just sat on the bed of Sarah while she was sleeping. I decided to move above Sarah’s bed so that things get back to normal. I prepared the bed for the second time that night. I somehow managed to sleep again until the controller passed and shoke me to check for the ticket as I was at the spot of people that supposedly had just stepped into the train.
In the morning, Sarah woke up and had no idea of what had happened. So she went to the bed where i was the last time she saw me and woke up the person in that bed... she stepped back! "hhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaa MAX what happened to you??? " well it was not me but an old indian lady... fortunately she realised it was not me before giving a kiss... ;) pouah! The old lady pointed in my direction and Sarah sat and recovered from her emotions.

Departure:
The Delhi Ghandi intl. airport story:

- the taxi we had booked was late, to the point we though we would have to run to get another taxi to the ‘New Delhi’ train station close to the hotel. But eventually (35min late), they told us to follow a guy. (I had heard the other Chinese people tell to the shop people that he was going to destroy their reputation, I am still wondering, what reputation?) At this point we were 8! after a 10 min crazy walk with luggage in the crowded area, we arrive to 1 small car-truck were only 4 of us would fit into. no need to say the others were not happy. we made it to the airport in time. If I had known I would have paid the extra 210 rupees to get the taxi from the hotel we were at. Not so much a good idea to book a taxi in a shop selling plastic women jewelry in a funny narrow street…

-getting into the airport:
ONLY in INDIA will you have such hassle. Sarah did not have a printout of her schedule cause she had to rebook her return trip independently from the hotel after the first flight fiasko. so the army guard would not let her inside the airport. We had to run to desk A on the side of the airport to be told to get back to Gate 5 where an agent had a list of all passengers. total loss of time = +/- 10-15 min.
Then was my turn to have fun. it was 8 pm. my flight was not untill 3 am. 7 h later. The guard said i had to wait outside. how fun. we had to strongly insist we were together. Fortunately a girl inside said something and they let me in with sarah. what would i have done outside for so long?

I should also mention the amounts of passport/ticket checks between the plane Gate's entrance (waiting area) and the moment you can actually be in the plane: 5 ! you would think 1 is enough...if it was well done.





the solar clock



all trip part 2



At the end of this nice trip in india, i feel like a Tomb rider. we saw so many!

villard de lans 23-1-11

avec Chiara.
Plot de nonigpsplot pour le profil d'altitude dans le bas de l'image. pour l'apres midi de 2h à 4h50 +/-. quelle constance :)
dist tot: 42 km l'après midi, mais je n'avais pas le gps les 3 premieres heures du matin sur les pistes, donc compter le double! waaaw
avec la carte google earth...

pics:

St Nizier les moucherotte 15-1-11

toutes les images du voyage sont ici:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ricleal/20110115?feat=email#

itineraire gps ( rose) et l itineraire qu il aurait fallu suivre (vert) et que nous avons manque car il semblait trop improbable de commencer tellement pentu...

video prise avec le camstabilisateur

the maxicamstabilibike

sur le guidon et le porte bagages, sans aileron. le système se met à tourner tout seul en avançant.



avec aileron stabilisateur pour éviter l'auto rotation:



inconvenient majeur: inutilisable si il y a du vent.

Le Sappey - presque à chamechaude 8-1-11

perdu?


il est temps de repartir, le soleil se couche... à 17h04


GPS track (ligne pourpre)

1.51km x2 à vol d'oiseau

en repartant, nous croisons un groupe de randonneurs, dans le noir et sans lumières ils se sont engagés dans le chemin qui mène à la montagne...

Neige a Mousty - Noel 2010

Le Jardin tout blanc

cam stabilizer (home made)

Voici un stabilisateur pour caméra/appareil photo fait maison légèrement amélioré de (http://www.yb2normal.com/DIYsteadicam.html) afin de pouvoir aussi l'utiliser en position inversée pour évoluer près du sol.

la partie flexible pour pouvoir ajuster la position de la visée...

Video de test 1



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conundrum: what is it all there disassembled? you can recognize some parts of the stabilizer, but what is the rest? to be tested soon....

la neige du 17 decembre 2010

à vélo et embourbé dans 20 cm de neige...sur la piste cyclable le long du Drac.

Vidéo prise depuis le guidon de mon vélo traitée avec avisynth et deshaker dans virtualdub puis encodé en x264. Désolé pour les gouttes sur l'objectif, il neigeait!

1 - piste cyclable le long du Drac (seyssinet pariset)
2 - pont du tram A
3 - aux alentour du terminus tram B minatec
4- dans le polygone scientifique

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vues depuis le cibb sur l'esrf et les contreforts du Vercors et de la Chartreuse.


plus tard pendant le week end:

Chiara essaye de sortir son auto du parking... et ce n'est pas gagné d'avance quand la neige est comme de la soupe qui s'agglomère aisément...
(video traitée avec le plugin deshaker de virtualdub)

neige a seyssins 30-11-10

à 20h43

à 22h13

les flocons!

le lendemain matin à 8h38



vue du parking à 10h54


ma petite auto...elle ne montre plus qu un seul oeil...
(voir la latte dans la neige: 24+1 cm!)


vue sur les hauteurs de seyssins

les nuances de couleurs du coucher de soleil sur la belledone:
et quelques minutes plus tard:

panorama depuis fort comboire

La cour intérieure du fort Comboire qui est interdite d'accès.

GPS log (vert) du parcours culminant à 520m d'altitude.

Vues sur le sud de Grenoble (échirolles) avec la Beledonne (Chamrousse enneigé à gauche) et le Vercors

Coucher du soleil et lever de lune

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Vues depuis le belvédère de fort comboire le 5-12-10 avec la neige (qui fond)

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"La colline de Comboire est un avant poste calcaire du Vercors, située sur la rive gauche du Orac. Elle s'étend sur 135 ha, entre 263 et 560 m d'altitude. Le rocher de Comboire est une relique glaciaire du Wifrm de 18 000 ans. Grâce à son exposition ,6iid-suc)-est et à la qualité de son soi, le site accueille une fibre méditerranéenne,.très diversifiée : pistachier térébfnthé, lunetiàre à feuillet de chicorée, nerprun alateme, genévrjelVt hti rifèfa (qui fait,- l'objet d'une protection régîbnalejYetc- La colline présente aussi plusieurs sitesdepelouses sèches riches en orchidées : céphalanthères, orchis homme pendu, ophrys araignée, platanthère à 2 feuilles,'neottié nid d'oiseaux, etc.

Les falaises calcaires de 150 mètres de haut s'étalent sur 1,6 km et sont des lieux de nidification très appréciés des rapaces, en particulier du grand duc d'Europe et du faucon pèlerin). On y trouve des abris sous roche et des diaclases (Trou du Renard).

Site d'oppidum occupé depuis le néolithique, il a livré de nombreux vestiges (parures, céramiques, etc.). Le Fort de Comboire construit entre 1882 et 1884 y occupe un point panoramique, qui lui permettait de croiser ses feux avec les autres fortifications entourant Grenoble. Il est aujourd'hui l'un des mieux conservés.

L'exploitation des ciments Vicat a laissé des galeries aujourd'hui condamnées qui abritent de nombreuses chauves-souris.

Pour découvrir ce site exceptionnel, trois sentiers on été créés par la mairie de Clalx et le Sipavag : la boucle du

belvédère (45 mn), le parcours des crêtes (40 mn) et la liaison Claix- Seyssins (2 h).

Afin d'assurer la conservation de la flore et le bien-être de la faune, l'accès à ce site est réglementé et des consignes sont à respecter.

La pratique de l'escalade est autorisée sur les voies tracées dans le secteur Sud à Sud Est sous réserve de l'accord des propriétaires. La « Rue de la Paix » constitue la dernière voie au-delà de laquelle cette activité est interdite et ce jusqu'à la limite intercommunale Claix - Seyssins (Cf. Guide escalade autour de Grenoble-Secteur Amnesty)."

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patinage à roulette (artistique) dans grenoble

Ce vendredi soir Chiara et moi avons été vilains : nous avons mis nos patins a roulette à nos pieds, nous avons patiné au milieu de la route et avons même grillé des feux rouges!
et oui, mais nous n'étions pas seul, encadré par un groupe de patineur de Grenoble. il y avait même une voiture balai!
http://www.grenoble-roller.org/

nous avons fait en roller :
- 8,06 km en 1h10,
- une vitesse moyenne de 6.9 km/h (pauses incluses),
- vitesse Maximale de +/-17 km/h

image Gps du parcours avec fichier google earth camouflé:

Résumé : citroen xantia 2.1TD clim 110ch 04/1998

Qualités :
confort, faible consommation, modulable, résiste a la corrosion malgré impacts cailloux, entretient "maison" facile, agile sur la neige avec pneus été, pares choc résistants et ne laissent pas de traces trop visibles des frottements, embrayage d'origine a 260000km (a tracté caravane), abs efficace

Défauts :
bruit moteur important a 130km/h = insonorisation insuffisante, phares croisement peu puissants, fragilité des supports de vitres électriques, mauvaise conception bas caisse devant roues AR qui corrode, radiateur intérieur fuit systématiquement après 8-10 ans (750€ pour remplacer!), jauge carburant insensible de plein à -15 L environ.

Consommation moyenne :
5.9 litres/100km moyen (je roule cool, pneus michelin energy)

Problèmes rencontrés :
correcteur assiette ar changé à 255000km,
tube HP av gauche corrodé, charbons pulseur air habitacle KO à 250000km,
corrosion (trou!) g/d bas caisse au niveau des portes AR,
capuchon protection percé devant roue AR-G, radiateur ko 150000km,
fuite radiateur habitacle fermée avec émail de fer 250000km,
à 7 ans 190000km: bouton coffre ne revient pas facilement en position! faire un trou derriere pour le repousser,
à 9 et 11 ans: effondrement des vitres AV G/D - c'etait une casse support plastique - réparés en fondant le bout de plastique (pp) avec un fer a souder en position initiale,
suite a batterie KO - compte tour bloqué au max. - réparé avec fil de fer passe dans un trou foré dans tableau de bord,
pompe de liq refroidissement fuit à 250000km,
freins AR corrodent le support étrier avec le temps et se positionnent en biais,

Note : 15/20

Prix assurance :
540 euros/an (Assureur : ags ) (type de contrat : tout + vitres+judiciaire ) (Bonus/Malus : le + bas)

Panorama sur Chamrousse - Belledonne - Alpes - France

a high resolution panorama on Chamrousse resized by google to 1600 pixels... :(

Visite de Sarah a Pekin en Chine, Octobre 2010

Peut il y avoir meilleure occasion pour visiter Pékin que lorsque Sarah y habite ?

Le trajet vers la chine depuis la France est long et épuisant en avion car il faut compter 10h de vol et le temps pour rejoindre l aéroport etc etc... ce qui s'additionne pour avoir très vite jusqu'à 20 h de voyage au total. Dans le bus a 2 étages sur le chemin de l'appartement de Sarah, je me suis levé (ou plutôt penche au dessus du siège) pour me diriger vers la sortie lorsque le bus a roule dans 2 nids de poule successifs, ce fut mon premier souvenir de fusion frontale en Chine. Pour ceux qui n'auraient pas compris, je me suis éclaté la tête sur le plafonnier du bus.
Nous sommes arrive chez Sarah vers 8h du matin heure locale. Comme Sarah devait travailler ce jour la, j'en ai profite pour ronronner quelques heures bien sagement, en fait, toute la journée.
Le soir venu, nous avons visite le parc qui fait face a l'hôpital du cancer de pékin près de la ou Sarah travaille lors de l'exposition d'art lumineux chinois.

Bizarreries:
Déjà le premier jour, fort m'a été de constater que se promener dans pékin n'est pas de tout repos!
Il n existe qu'une règle: La célèbre loi physique des masses. Si vous êtes un touriste piéton, vous n'existez pas et mieux vaut s'écarter des vélos et des voitures qui n'hésitent pas a klaxonner en permanence. Et cela que vous soyez sur le trottoir, sur un passage piétons ou sur la route! Peu importe la couleur des feux, soyez sur vos gardes car même lorsque le feu des piétons est vert, les véhicules continuent de passer. Aux grands carrefours, la technique a adopter est de suivre les chinois piétons pour traverser, c'est votre seule chance de survie en milieu hostile.

Chose curieuse, les chinois sont fascines par les longs cheveux des femmes occidentales, et ce d'autant plus si ils sont blonds! au point qu'il n'est pas rare de se faire fixer du regard ou même de se faire toucher les cheveux! Comme dit toujours mon vieux papa, il n'y a pas d'expérience plus stimulante sur le plan spirituel que de fixer du regard quelqu'un qui vous fixe! C'est assez comique de constater qu ils continuent de fixer malgré tout. Cela rappelle le jeu que font les chats quand ils se fixent mutuellement a l'infini pour voir lequel s'écartera le premier.

vendredi: nada car estomac retournés

samedi:

Nous avons essaye de visiter la cite interdite mais avons renonce devant la masse folle de gens nous précédant, aussi nous ne nous étions pas vraiment levés aux aurores en ce jour de fête nationale chinoise. Nous avons donc été visiter les parcs alentour qui sont très jolis.

dimanche:

Le parc national de (j'ai oublié le nom et le ticket ne renseigne que du chinois), 4 h de bus a l'aller, 3 h au retour.

la folie des bus 917. ils sont a tous les coins de rue et ne vont pas tous dans la même direction. pour trouver le bon bus, il nous a fallu demander a chaque coin de rue aux gens postes aux arrets, finalement, en procedant par triangulation nous avons trouvé le bon bus. En effet, tout ce que Sarah et moi comprenions était les directions pointées par les gens.

lundi:

ballade dans Pekin , visite des Hutongs. Restaurant avec Ben. NB: le tofu n'est pas compatible avec mon système digestif.

mardi: nada car estomac retournés

mercredi-jeudi

La grande muraille de Chine à Huanghuacheng, 75 km au nord de Pékin: Randonnée et camping sur le mur avec Lara, Serena et Sarah.




NB: cette dernière image "panorama" est assemblée a partir de 18 images indépendantes prises avec la meme semsibilité et meme puissance de zoom sur un trépied apres 2 sec de stabilisation par minuteur. L'image ici est limitee a +/- 1600 x 2000 mais l'image originale a plus de 10000 x 12000 pixels de resolution, ce que google ne permet pas encore d'afficher car cela nécessite 300MB de mémoire disponible dans le navigateur.

ci-desssous: Trace GPS de notre ballade sur la grande muraille à Huanghuacheng, les pointillés sont décalés par rapport à la photo satellite mais on peut aisément deviner notre route.

vendredi:

Le musée du train de Pekin. :) :)
il y a des machines provenant de tous les continents! belgique, usa, uk, japon, ...

NB: ci-dessous les informations sur les locomotives ont été obtenues à partir les photos des panneaux et d'un logiciel de lecture de texte, ce qui explique les petites erreurs de frappe. Elles sont classées de la plus ancienne a la plus "récente"

CLASS ZERO STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Four—wheel, wheel arrangement: 0-4-0T, overall length 4.75m

Designed speed: 20km/h. Country of origin: U.K., year of building: 1881

Class Zero, once served on Chinas earliest railway Tangshan-Xugezhuang Line, is the oldest among the preserved locomotives in China. It was collected from Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works in 1979.

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CLASS KOs NO. 373 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class KDs No. 373, wheel arrangement: 2 — 8—0

Overall length: 16.56m, designed speed: 50km/h» tractive effort: 16,370kg

Country of origin: Japan, year of building: 1921

Built in Japan as a medium-sized locomotive with a 3 - a x 1 e tender, and also known as consolidation, it was widely used in many areas due to its suitability to shunting duties.

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Class PL3 NO. 146 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class PL3 No. 146, wheel arrangement: 2—5—9 Overall length: 19.13 m, designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 13,900kg

Country of origin: belgium, year of building: 1922

built in Belgium, it is a medium sized locomotive with a tander and was widely used for freight services due to its excellent performance.

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JIEFANG it ( JFsi ) NO. 738 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Jiefang 51 ( JFsi ) No. 738, also known as Model 0 551, wheel arrangement: 2—8—2 Overall length: 11.55m, designed speed: 55km/h, tractive effort: 11,571kg

Country of origin: France, year of building: 1926

A meter—gauge tank locomotive built in France, once at service on the Yunnan-Vietnam line, todays Kunming-Hekou railway.

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CLASS SN NO. 23 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class: SN 23, wheel arrangement: 0-10-0, overall length: 14.85m

Designed speed: 45km/fa, tractive effort: 6,691kg Country of origin: the USA, year of building: 1929

A narrow—gauge (0.6—meter) locomotive built in the USA for both freight and passenger services, it was once on duty on the Jijie — Gejiu line, and the Gejiu — Bisezai —Shiping line in Yunnan Province.

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CLASS FD NO. 1979 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class FD No. 1979, wheel arrangement: 2-10-2 Overall length: 29.07m, designed speed: 85km/h, tractive effort: 34,010kg

Country of origin: the Soviet Union, year of building: 1931

A heavy locomotive built in the former Soviet Union for freight services, it was imported in two batches in 1958 and 1961 respectively, also named as Youhao (Friendship), and Fanxiu (Anti — revisionism), etc

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CLASS JIEFANG 6 ( JF* ) NO. 3022 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Jiefang 6 ( JF* ) No. 3022, also known as Model 1156, wheel arrangement: 2—8—2 Overall length: 21.17m, designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 20,050kg

Country of origin: Japan, year of building: 1933

A heavy locomotive used in large numbers in old China both for freight and passenger services, built respectively by 6 works in Japan.

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CLASS PL 3 NO.51 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class PL3 No. 51, also known as Model k 9) 3, wheel arrangement: 2—6—2T

Overall length: 10.77m, designed speed: 60km/h, tractive effort: 16,800kg

Country of origin: Japan, year of building: 1935

A tank locomotive built in Japan for shunting, also known as prairie type, once in service in northeastern China.

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CLASS KFi NO. 006 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class KFi No. 006, wheel arrangement 4-8-4, overall length 28.41m

Designed speed lOOkm/h, tractive effort 19,300kg Country of origin: U.K., year of building 1936

Designed in 1933 as a large locomotive for hauling passenger coaches by Chinese expert Ying Shangcai and his colleagues, and built in 1936 by Vulcan Foundry inl933, England through a successful bid.

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Class JiefangL1 3787 steam locomotive

Overall length: 28.78m, designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 18,100kg

wheel arrangement: 2-8-2

Country of origin: The usa, year of building: 1937

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Class JIEFANG 11 ( JF11 ) NO. 3773 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Jiefang 11 ( JF11 ) No. 3773, wheel arrangement: 2—8—2 Overall length: 20.70 m, designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 18,160kg

Country of origin: the usa, year of building: 1937

A medium sized locomotive built in the usa also called Mikado, this class was widely used for freight services on Chinese railways due to its good performance

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Class SL3 NO. 152, wheel arrangement 4-6-2

Overall length: 21,50m, designed speed: lOOkm/h, tractive effort: 15,670kg

Country of origin : Japan, year of building: 1939

Built in Japan for passenger services, also known as the Pacific, it was widely used for express passenger trains.

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CLASS SL12 NO. 890 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class SL12 No. 890, also known as Model &T 12, wheel arrangement: 4-6-2

Overall length: 22.05m, designed speed: 90km/h, tractive effort: 16,500kg

Country of origin: Japan, year of building: 1942

Built in Japan for passenger services, it served as one of the main locomotives for passenger trains in northern and northeastern China, and was used to haul passenger trains on Shanghai-Nanjing line and Shanghai—Hangzhou line.

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CLASS QIANJIN ( QJ ) NO. 0001 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Qianjin ( QJ ) No. 0001₉ wheel arrangement: 2-10-2, overall length: 26.1m Designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 33,290kg Country of origin: China, year of building: 1956

The first locomotive with a 4-axle tender for freight services on main lines built by Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, first named as Class Heping (HP), and in 1971 it was finally named Class Qianjin (QJ), whose tractive effort is 40% greater than that of Class Jiefang locomotive.

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CLASS QIANJIN ( QJ ) NO. 0004 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE

Class Qianjin ( QJ ) No. 0004, wheel arrangement: 2-10-2, overall length: 29.29m Designed speed: 80km/h, tractive effort: 33,290kg Country of origin: China, year of building: 1958

The first locomotive with a 6—axle tender for freight services on main lines built by Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, and then exclusively manufactured by Datong Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, in a total number of 4,714 units.

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CLASS SHAOSHAN i ( SSi ) NO. 008 ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE

Class Shaoshan 1 ( SSi)No. 008» axlearrangement: Co—Co, overall length: 20.64m Maximum speed: 90km/h, tractive effort: 48,700kg, sustainable tractive effort: 30,100kg Country of origin: China, year of building: May1968

The first: main Iine electric locomotive with thy ristor—rectification technology jointly designed and built by Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Works and Xiangtan Electric Locomotive Works, was manufactured in a total number of 819 units, and underwent numerous technical innovationsthereafter.

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CLASS DONGFENG s<>

Class Dongfeog 5 ( DFs ) No. 00®7, axle arrangement: Co-Co, overall length: 18,80m Maximum speed: 80km/h, start-up tractive effort: 39,240kg, sustainable tractive effort: 31,580kg Country of origin: China, year of building: 1977

Jointly designed by Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works and Tangshan Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works, and so on, and built on a trial basis by Tangshan Locomotive Rolling Stock Works, it was a shunter with AC-DC electric transmission, and began to be manufactured by Sifang Locomotive & Rolling Stock Works from 1985.

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ci dessous: Localisation satellite du musée du train de pékin. c'est l'enorme batiment au toit blanc. le bus nous depose sur la route du haut de la photo, il faut marcher jusqu'au bas de la photo le long de la grande route puis prendre l'entree du site au bas de la photo et enfin marcher vers l'entrée du bâtiment qui se trouve du cote opposé bien entendu. bref il faut avoir un peu de patience pour s'y retrouver dans ce mic-mac qui semble à l'abandon (hautes herbes, bâtiment légèrement délabré).

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Vendredi après midi:

Visite du labo de Sarah fut effectuée l'après midi, elle avait la visite d'importants responsables de son projet de recherche.

samedi:

Les palais d'été : L'ancien et le nouveau

maquette de l'ancien palais d'été de pékin (détruit en 1860 par les anglais et les français) .

l'amertume concernant l'état ruinesque du palais est lisible sur les panneaux dans le parc et il est clair que les restaurations effectuées sur les fondations ont pour but de montrer l'ampleur des degats.

ci-dessous: plafond de temple dans le palais d'été.

dimanche:

il pleuvit, pratique improvisée du ping-pong d'intérieur ...

lundi:

Le depart:
J'ai été étonne de devoir passer un contrôle d'immigration chinois dans l'aéroport même avant d'accéder a la zone internationale. Vérifieraient ils si leurs compatriotes ne tentent pas de s'enfuir?

Pendant les 10 jours de ma visite, nous avons voyage tous azimuts aux alentour de pekin en bus/metro et tout cela a coute moins de 15 euros! (sans compter la grande muraille 60 Euros)

Je suis un gros veinard, je suis parti après une grève générale (contre la retraite a 62 ans) et rentre le jour précédant une grève massive des trains en France. Je n'aurais pas pu mieux planifier mon voyage.



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