The city of 1200 cranes
My next visits were haphazard, not marked by anniversaries but nevertheless by substantial change. 
This visit coincided with the time of the famous cranes—it was rumoured that crane operators had also to have master mariner qualifications when some of the enormous holes dug for the foundations filled with water. 
Now the tourism consisted as much of ‘site watching’ as of the search for evocative bits of Wall, and the ‘Infobox’ provided a tourist platform. 

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