Where in the world am I now?

So here is a pic I'd like for you to guess where it's at!

Yep. Those are bananas.


And these look like papaya plants!

I'll tell you it's in winter.

No, I didn't go visit Cuba after after Christmas. 

Some buildings look dilapidated enough to be there. 

And these are not city people farming in the city limits of Havana

It's China.

Who would have thought the such tropical plants would grow in November in China?


I used to think of China as being further north than Korea...and lots of news clips from the Korean War showed that it was awful cold there.

Yes, Beijing is further north than that.

But the area of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are only 30 degrees North of the equator.

That means it is only slightly north of New Orleans or even Austin, Texas. 

It looks pretty darn tropical even in October and November. 
But, in reality, the temps were in the high 30's in the morning and rose to the 60's in the afternoon.

Anyway....Guess that's why there was so much fruit in the markets of the big cities to the north, even at that time of the year!