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Sunday, October 07, 2007
; 11:25 AM

This week is China's national day aka the golden week. I applied half day leave on sun so that we can travel earlier. The coach has no seats instead there are beds. There are 2 very narrow aisles and no shoes are allowed hence we had to removed ours before we step inside.

We left Wuxi at 4pm and the journey is around 10 hours. We should reached Fujian-Ning De at 3am but we met numerous traffic jams that we stucked there for 2 hours hence we reached ningde at 6am which is 14 hours of journey. How crazy is it. Midway, when the coach reached Su Zhou, alot of people kept knocking at the doors so that they can enter. There is no more empty beds yet the person-in-charge still allow them to enter. The only place they can sleep is the very very narrow aisles which make us having difficulties in walking to the toilet. The whole bus is so packed. Luckily it's over.

Upon arriving ning de, Lv's parents fetched us back to their house and we rested for a while before we began our travelling.

First we travelled to this pagoda in ning de.

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Scenic view

Then we went for lunch at this noodle restaurant. Then after when mingchao reached ningde, we went to fetch him. Immediately, we carried on with our journey.

Next we went to this island which i had forgotten the name.

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I'm holding a gold ingot. (An extra fellow spoilt the photo)

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This is a hollow rock. Amazing.

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The place is really beautiful and the view is amazing. And that's the end of day 1.

Tue, we woke up early in the morning as we had to travel for 3 hours to this place call mei zhou island. But before we reached there, we visited Lv dad's friend whom they called him a bao fa fu (one-night millionaire). His house is just like an ordinary flat but the surrounding is very nice as there is a small river and opposite there are old folks playing chinese instruments. It feels like chinese new year.

After a while, we continued with our journey together with the bao fa fu family. When we reached there, a man kindly lead us to a parking lot. Then more people were fighting to get our cars into their parking lot. In the end, we settled down on this shelter parking lot and the parking fee is crazy. Oh well, after that we had our lunch at this seafood restaurant. The first dish is disgusting. It's a shell and inside the shell, there is something. I refused to eat it and Lv's grandma still gave mi 1. The moment i took the flesh out, green juice surged out and it is totally disgusting. And they ordered several disgusting seafood, somemore the bill is so expensive. Totally not worthy.

After lunch, we sat on a boat to mei zhou island,

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Fire-cracker area. It's so deafening but cool.

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Dinner at this VIP lounge with everyone. Had to seat according to the arrangement. Main person had to face the door and sit in between the table legs. Was told to toast to everyone in the table. =( Luckily the beer is nice.

Woke up early in the morning to travel to tai mu mountain.

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Not for the old and weak. It's really very tiring.

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Next it's Xiamen with travel agency. I'm travelling alone. (Cut short because i had written alot in the post and suddenly everything is gone and now i'm rewriting again.)

Xiamen is a wonderful place.

Temple.

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Xiamen famous shopping road called Zhong Shan Lu.

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Shopping spree

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Next is military attraction.

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The world largest cannon.

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NExt day, we travelled to an island called Gu Lang Yu aka piano island cos every house in the island possess a piano.

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Bird Garden

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Peak of the whole island

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Brought this paper hat for 2 RMB

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Back to the main island and we went to the sandy beach of xiamen.

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And that's the end of the trip. Typhoon is approaching Fujian hence we came back to wuxi asap.


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