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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Larry Sweetland" data-source="post: 1763661" data-attributes="member: 27337">Before leaving Tang Kou, a walk upriver from town produced a pair of entertaining Brown Dippers.We then had a long bus jouney to HeFei. We were dreading the inevitable confusion of getting from wherever the bus stopped to the train station, but what actually happened was too amusing to be scary. All the other passengers getting off the bus headed out towards the entrance to the road where the bus came in. We however were pleased to observe that finding a taxi was easy, there was a huge concrete square full of them directly behind the bus station. As we headed towards them we were surprised that they weren't fighting for our custom. Even when we were amongst the cars, which all had the same colouring and roof lights, no-one seemed interested, though some appeared to have one passenger already. Then we saw the office, so we figured maybe it was really civilized and you had to book a ride through the office. At the office I asked for "taxi" and the lady behind the desk brightly pointed to the left, appearing pleased that she'd understood, and brightly repeated "W.C." We had of course just been wandering around a driver learning school. We headed out to the road to look for a taxi.We somehow managed to get to the train station and onto an overnight train to Xian, famous for it's army of terracotta warriors. Birds seen out of bus and train have been changing, with White-cheeked Starling and Azure-winged Magpie becoming common, several Hoopoe (especially nice), a few Common Pheasant (grey-rumped, white-collared birds), some Oriental Turtle Doves, Grey-capped Greenfinch, a Daurian Redstart etc. A few birds we hadn't seen since the first couple of months of the trip.</blockquote>

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