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三坊七巷 - Enjoy Three Lanes and Seven Alleys Letterbox Hybrid

Hidden : 9/10/2016
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Keep a close look at your valuables at all time. It is a tourist spot, therefore robbers might be around.


Nihao and welcome to this letterbox. So you wanna go see famous street Sanfangqixiang?

Rules: Only findable during daylight for several reasons. Find the pictures first, then get the number(s). Do the math, then walk towards the next station. One "step" equals 70 cm to one meter, the distance is only an estimation, not measured with a device. So the next station is always 20 m before or after you finished walking, depending on your step size. There are lots of little places to discover, just enjoy. You must never leave the big street, not even for the final.

Station 1: You start outside the entrance to Sanfangqixiang. Find this big map outside the gate.

A x B = C

Now walk through the gate and C steps down the street, until you see an American coffee place on your left hand side.

Station 2 (this one does not need a picture, does it?): You do not enter this place. Look from the outside: How many lanterns (D) and levels (E) does the coffee shop have? Look at the stone in front of it. There is a star. How many rays (F)? Now walk D x (E+F) steps down the street. Alternative for D: If you don’t see two rows of lanterns, you can count the hair of the woman instead, that will also give you D.

Station 3: Find the right hand and the left hand on your right hand side, right? Questions left?

Minitask: If you walk another F steps and look in E meters height, you find a white number on blue ground like this: ???-?. ??? divided by ? = G. Now walk G steps down the street.

Station 4: Can you find H?

Now again walk H steps down the street.

Station 5: Can you find this green guy? He is the symbol for the youth games, which were held in Fuzhou in 2015.

Wait. You still need a number! Minitask: Walk back, maybe D+F steps, and find a white number on blue ground, on the same side of the street. That will be letter I. (check: the cross sum is 12).

Now go I steps towards south again.

Station 6: On your left side, there should be this:

See the information plate? Look at the English translation text below. Count the English words in that text, until you reach Ming Dynasty. How many words? Congratulations, you just found the number for the letter J.

Final station (hooray!): Now let’s go sign and get that stamp. Move J steps forward, you will find a big tree in the middle of the street and a blue bench. Wow, you are very close.

Go in!

Important: There is no searching, no stealth or any other strange behavior needed. Find the stamps.

You can use any of the available stamps for your own book. But where is the logbook? Walk in further. Can you find the 9 white letterboxes hanging on the wall? Have a close look at the book case near. There is a white book called "Zeitschrift f... i... G... " with the geocaching symbol... Please only use the online log for longer texts.

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