Guilin Trip Pt 2

Day 2: Woke up very early as we were supposed to go on the Li Jiang river tour from the pier at guilin city area. So we chartered the 2 cabs that brought us to the hotel that day....but turned out that there are some miscommunication with the 2 cab drivers who fetched us from our hotel. Felt so cheated and most importantly, spoil our plan for the whole day!!!...now we have to push back the Li Jiang tour to the last day which is going to be super risky coz we will be rushing like mad to catch our flight…

nice sunrise =)

Back to the 2 drivers, apparently what she told us is a completely different story from what was agreed on the phone. So the rest of them were arguing with her and I cant really be bothered abt all her arguments and sat there to plan for our next journey, until one point when she started accusing our parents for not teaching us tt “zhuo4 ren2 yao4 you3 liang2 xing1”…and that got me so damn pissed off, that I stood up and scolded her…and that shut her up. For me, u can scold me but never ever bring my parents into the picture, else you will really get it from me…and this cab driver got it from me!!!!

this is the cab driver who got it from me!!!!.....she got the fierce look..but i am fiercer =p

So these 2 cab drivers really let us see one side of the China pple, very smart in making business and also very good at quarrelling with people. So all of you going to China, make sure you are smarter than them to outwit them.

Although this incident sort of spoil our plan and mood, we managed to find some stuff to do, like visiting the ”Du Xiu Feng” which has very nice view of the city and also a surprise visit to a local Pri sch, where we saw the sch kids queuing for "Mai Ya Tang"..some candies lah if u dunno chinese....and then we went into the school to look around...hahaa...the sch teacher even asked me if i am from Korea!!!...first time someone say i am from korea...wonder why i look like "a malaysian, AT, Hongkie and now korean" but not a singaporean..haha

climbing up these steep steps can be tiring....

but the view from this "Du Xiu Feng (Peak)" make the climb worth it.

the cave where the imperial scholars study for their exams and write poems in the past...how i wish i have a cave to study for my exams too..without any distractions. =p

this shop sells horse meat!!!!OMG...they really eat anything in china siaz

this "Zha Jiang Mian" cost 3RMB, which is abt 60cents...the dumplings coz 3RMB for 10..goodness its so cheap..but not really nice.

we saw the kids queuing up for the candies (u can order different animals!!!)...this is something u cant find in spore anymore i guess..

i talked to these kids outside the sch..and one of them even gave me a candy...so nice of him..

the so called bridge tt u used to cross the river...just tt there is chance tt u will fall into the river...so i prefer to spend 1RMB to take the raft....and actually wenjie fell down while trying to walk around the river with david

At night, we visited the Shui3 Jie1, which is something like Clarke quay, just tt it is a canal built by Qin Shi Huang long long ago, and that there are no pubs but BBQ shops along it. So we had lots and lots of BBQ stuff there and its really really very nice. If got chance, I will visit this place again. We were then joined by the Bellboy of the hotel, Cheng2 Shi2(honest in English). He is a very nice person actually, been helping us a lot these few days and he knocked off work early to join us to makan and drink some beer. Really nice and easier to talk to him especially coz he is only 25 years old, so about the same age…he told us a lot abt himself, like where is his hometown, why he has to come here to work, blah blah blah… So we finally saw the better side of the china, there are still pple who are friendly and honest(hopefully) to us.

the BBQ shop....we were lucky enough to find this original BBQ stall

grp photo with the bellboy(Cheng2 Shi2)