Recently I had the opportunity to visit a sheep farm up in the mountains with some friends. It was a funny cultural experience for me!
Chingjing Farm (also spelled Qingjing, Cingjing, or Chingling) is a green, hilly ranch with paved walkways for people to stroll on and watch sheep graze.
The place was full of Taiwanese tourists from the city, all
eager to see, touch, and feed the sheep.
Now, maybe it's my Kenyan
upbringing, where sheep and goats are pretty much everyday sights even
in the city. But the idea of going somewhere and paying money just to
watch sheep strikes me as extraordinarily ridiculous!
Still, it was pleasant to walk around in such a lush, green area, especially after weeks of seeing almost nothing but city.
It
was a drizzly holiday weekend, and the place was absolutely
thronged with people with umbrellas.
I wonder what the sheep show was; we didn't have time to see it. However, Floyd's enactment of what he thinks a sheep show must be is pretty hilarious!
I have to say that although I would
have considered it pointless to go to a farm to watch the sheep, I had a lot
of fun watching the tourists watch the sheep!
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