See below for photos of 8 vehicles that caught my attention.
Month: February 2025
Wuyi Old Town
We visited the “old town” retail street in Wuyi for lunch and dinner. See below for photos.
Wuyi Fluorite Museum
There’s a trip.com page about this place, and a couple of stilted English-language news articles that mention it, and that’s all.
Hello, Wuyi Hot Spring Fluorite Museum!
See below for info on 4 Guinness World Records related to fluorite, and photos of the minerals on display.
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Trip to Wuyi, Zhejiang Province
I live in China. I’ve had the thought that while I’m here, I should look into buying minerals that are mined locally, since presumably such treasures can be had for a fraction of the price they sell for after being exported.
I had the impression that China is known globally as a source of fluorite. I did an online search, and went to a geological museum in Hangzhou, and learned that the county of Wuyi (population 462,462), which belongs to the city of Jinhua, has fluorite mines and a fluorite museum. Therefore, during the Chinese New Year Holiday, I went with my cooperative husband and in-laws to Wuyi in search of beautiful stones. I assumed, since Wuyi has fluorite mines and a fluorite museum, that it also had shops selling fluorite products. If it does, we couldn’t find them! Nevertheless, our road trip shopping quest was successful.
The trip is documented in this post and five others:
- We visited the museum, which had some really beautiful stuff in it.
- Subsequently, I bought a veritable trunkload of hunks of fluorite.
- We walked around in Wuyi’s “old town” shopping/eating area.
- I spotted some interesting vehicles during the trip.
- I took photos of some interesting “English” signs during the trip.
We stayed two nights (February 1 and February 2) in the Vienna International Hotel in Wuyi. There are… 26 miscellaneous photos from the trip below.
