yangshou was so cool, had the best time we hired electric scooters and hooned round for a day, one of the scooters died so we stopped at this mans house on the side of the road, it was a single room brick shanty house, it would be sooo cold in winter. anyway we called scooter ppl, they said they'd bring a new one out but it would be about 15 mins so we sat around at this mans house. he pulled out this little plastic container filled with water and something in it, then showed it to us looking so proud. in the container was a rock. we didnt know what to say, this rock was his pride and joy. he couldnt speak english so he was explaining to mathieu that it was a special rock, and rock in mandarin is 'shithole'. tried ridiculously hard not to laugh. also nigger is 'this' in mandarin, so the words we picked up in their conversations were "blah blah blah nigger nigger shithole blah blah blah blah beijing blah nigger shithole blah nigger blah shithole". a little bit funny :) AND THEN he borught out a coke can, we were all like no thank you we dont want a coke and then he was like no look inside, he had a frog in the can. it was his pet. sat alongside his shithole/rock. at night apparently the frog climbs out, eats all the insects in his house then during the day chills out in its coke can. interesting 15min wait haha (ha jules). anyway we got the new scooter, hooned around for a bit more, went and had drunk duck for lunch (two signature dishes of this town were drunk duck and beer fish - pretty much sums china up haha) the lady said it would take an hr, it was already 2 oclock we were so hungry, she explained she had to go home, get the duck, bring it back, kill the duck, pluck the duck, cook the duck - all which she offered to do in front of us.. how kind!! it was yum but so it was worth it, thats about as fresh as it gets i think :) then we went fishing, caught nothing, bait was uncooked bread dough... dont understand why the fish werent biting?!?!?
then we went cormorant fishing, its so cool the fisherman takes all his birds out (at night) they have a tie around there necks so they cant swallow the big fish and they jump of the boat and dive underwater (which you can see cos they rig up big flood lights) and you can see them darting around trying to find the fish it is so cool to watch. then we stopped and i got to hold a bird on my arm, it stared at me it looked like it was decidiing whether or not to peck my eyes out.. scary but cool :)
the next day in yangshou we all did our own thing, spent so much money ha. did a cooking course in the morning made the best beer fish, tastted so good and all this other cool stuff. i definately want to do a cooking class in vietnam they are fun. then just hung around in yangshou its a cool town, had to send a box home iv bought so much stuff ha. hopefully it gets there! my pack is well light now but, so glad iv gotta walk up mega stairs to get to the metro 2moro to get to the airport... gross!
then overnight train to shenzen, border into hong kong, the train was so much worse than the overnight one we caught form bangkok to chiang mai, there were 6 people per sleeper and we were right next to the toilets and sinks, so because chinese people love to hack up mega slags, going to sleep was made very dificult by the lovely soundtrack coming from the bathrooms. and i got bed bug bites. HATE LIFE! no hong kong is really cool, it was worth it. got to hk at about 12 the next day, had maccas woohoo! weather has been really shite while iv been here, no point doing the cable cars cos you couldnt even see back to the mainland. tested myself on the metro yesterday, public transport is so easy and fun here, was so proud of myself yesterday haha. went up to the peak on hong kong island, normally it would have excellent views, DID BUT. couldnt see anything, mega overcast. went to madame tussauds wax museum had a bit of fun, a short fat indian muslim lady took heaps of pics of me which was good, she thought it was the best thing when i put on the sumo suit haha. today i went to disney land, so good spent all day there just wondering around. went and saw a 3D show, it was SO GOOD not only was it 3d, when there was a splash in the show, you got wet (i have no idea where the water came from, felt like it was coming from the screen) and there was food and i swear i could smell it. it was really cool. went and saw its a small world cos mum told me i had to haha it was good but, took heaps heaps heaps of pics. flying to vietnam early 2moro, looking forward to waking up though cos i have cereal!!! found supermarket heaven at the trainstation, i could have spent the last 2 days just sitting in this supermarket its amazing. had cheese last night, frothed so much :)
looking forward to vietnam il be able to use my phone again, number is +84947431866
xx
ps well done darcie cant believe you have a bf
pps well done candice too OMG hahahahahhahahaahaha
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