After discovering that there are in fact two Lezhis, we opted instead to make a trip to Zigong, home of China's salt mines.
Our first stop was the salt museum. It wasn't too exciting, but I did get some nice pictures:
One of our professors made the trip with us, and after the museum visit he insisted that we find Zigong's most famous traditional mine. The Shenhaijing mine tourist trap was located in the middle of a sprawling mass of currently operating salt mines. Rusty pipes and cinderblock buildings surround the tiny complex. We forked over twenty kuai for an English speaking guide (versus ten kuai for one that only speaks Chinese). She first took us to the standard "famous pictures of dignitaries who have been here" room and told us over and over again that we must "enjoy the photos."
The coolest part of seeing Shenhaijing was seeing where the salt is boiled down from the brine. This part of the tour, athough neat, was only set up for tourist's sake. The pillars of salt sat in one corner of the room, and we were all invited to taste it. Then we were hurried to the gift shop for some overpriced bags of table salt.
By far the best, best, BEST part of the day was the famous Zigong dinosaur museum. I'm pretty sure most of the bones in the place were replicas, and the open air dig site looked suspicous too. The place even tried to knock off Jurassic Park, take a look:
But unlike at Jurassic Park, the gift shop was only too happy to sell some dinoham.
In the middle of the museum there was an electronic dinosaur who for five kuai would poop out a dinosaur egg. I didn't have any money, but I conned Sarah into buying one. It took several tries to get an egg out, but in the end it was totally worth it.
We also found these funny named dinosaurs:
And while there I gained some architechteral inspiration. When I grow up I want my house to look like this:
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