Wednesday, January 7, 2009

China trip day 3


After eating 桂林米粉 (actually it is noodles dunno y called mihun) we went to morning market for a walk, they sold deep oil fried dog and also fried mouse.


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The shape looks like a bear climbing on it.


Reached 大榕树 (da rong shu), they said this tree aged more than a thousand years. They also said the movie 刘三姐 (liu san jie) was filmed here.






When we reach the river we need to raft ourselves, using an ordinary bamboo stick.




A friend who joined us in this trip.


They said this is the original place where 刘三姐 (liu san jie) stayed. They said that she was a very very beautiful lady.




The black colour shirt guy is a very kind uncle who drives us around China.


This is 银子岩 (yin zhi yan) a cave with lots of beautiful stones in it. This is and 4 A's national tourist attraction, where the highest grade is 5 A's. In every national tourist attraction area there are a cicerone for that area, they will lead a small team and describe everything inside.




They said this looks like the place where 杨贵妃 (yang gui fei) bathes.














The longest.


Father, mother and son.


This is the umbrella in the sea palace where 孙悟空 (shun wu kong) broke out of it. Up there is a hole that made by the escape. This is a very unique shape that forms naturally.


This is an example of stage 4 stone.


From left stage 3, stage 2 and stage 1. Differentiate it by colour.




Finally lunch time, a photo before lunch in front of the restaurant.






The food is very nice everywhere.

We went to 漓江 (li jiang) after lunch, it is a 5 A's tourist attraction area. It was very cold about 6-8 degree Celsius, and we take a small bamboo boat (4 people only) to enjoy the view.


This is the place that printed on the RMB20.




They said this looks like a torch.




My sis and me.


They said this looks like a camel.


I dunno this thing can go into the water.


This is the mountain that they called 九马画 (jiu ma hua). Nine horses on it, how many can you see? They really got good imagination.


This is my sis, tour guide and me. Tour guide is very useful as every entry to tourist attraction area needs entrance fee, we can get discount if there is a tour guide around. The tour guide is very keng, I explain a bit how we get the tour guide. While we are on our way to 大榕树 (da rong shu) we stop by the roadside to look at the gps to find our way to it. Then suddenly someone knocks on the window shows her tag and gives us the direction. Then she asked us either we need a tour guide for discount then she is on board. Hire a tour guide will get a lot discount, and the fee for tour guide is very cheap.


Dunno why I found Malaysia flag on the flag post.


阳朔西街 (yang shuo xi jie) at night. They said this is a very famous and very old street in 阳朔.


阳朔西街 (yang shuo xi jie) after rain.

Monday, January 5, 2009

China trip day 1 & 2



I had my china free and easy trip last week.
My father had rent a car from his friend and he brings us to those interesting place and also place that are the best to shop.
from the map above is the area I travelled.
click on the map to enlarge



when reached ShenZhen international airport. The flight has been delayed for more than 1 hour. Air Asia flights are terrible everyone rush for nice seats when the gate opens. I think Air Asia is the only company that does not provide seat number. Since all Air Asia flight is to Kuala Lumpur, it really made Malaysia an uncivilized country. There are no other flight needs to rush for their seats.



When I reached there we had a bowl of porridge with fish (生鱼) and frog (田鸡)
They said that 食在广东游在广西 (eat at guang dong play at guang xi)
the food at guang dong are really good. I ate triple the amount of food I normally had.



The hotel I stayed for the 1st day.



The lobby. Regretted forget to take photo for every hotel room during the trip.



Shen Zhen in the morning.



After had our breakfast, we started our journey to 阳朔 (yangshuo)
One thing special about their street, most of the are made of cement, only the new highway are made from tar.
The photo above is the road in ShenZhen, in 广西 (guang xi) the road are in very bad condition some area the two land of the road become 1 lane. Each side need to wait for 15 minutes.
Their toll is horrible when entering a town you need to pay once and leaving need to pay once again. I think for this single day we have pass through more than 20 tolls.



This is the van that brings us around for these few day.



The petrol station in some kampung, their kampung is more kampung than ours, but their city is more city than ours. Their petrol is also more expensive than ours.



After 12 hours of car ride we reach 阳朔 (yangshuo). This is the street at night.



Curry rice I had which tasted very bad. Because it is some Hong Kong restaurant, and the curry is very different it is totally not spicy.



The hotel we stayed in 阳朔
The 1st day and 2nd day basically used to travel.

For the 3rd day we started our visit to 阳朔 interesting place.
They used a sentence to describe 阳朔 and 桂林 (gui lin)
桂林山水甲天下,阳朔堪称甲桂林
which means gui lin has the best mountain and water in the whole world, but yang shuo can said better than gui lin

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Preview

Can anyone guess where am I??



Will be updated soon!!!!