Day 2
12:30 PM (4th Dec, Sunday) – [Without a purpose – On the coach]
Heading to Bama?!
It’s a 2hr ride then a 3hr trip up the oazdjkasld mountains, really hope I don’t crap or piss my pants.
Argh bumpyyy. [Messily scrawled words, the bus isn’t the best place to write stuff]
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11:15 PM [Room 0211, Bama Holiday Villa]
Here’s what we did today: Woke at 5:40AM, waited on bus from 6-6:30. Got breakfast: Croissant + Apple + Egg + Mineral Water [we were rushing so the hotel prepared this for us]
Headed to airport which was a totally unexpected thang. [No itinerary for the kids, folks]
Took plane to Nanning, arrived at 11AM.
Ate at a family restaurant, took a 5hr trip. Luckily, I slept through the most of it so I didn’t need to take a crap.
We went to this totally massive cave round the mountains, some 百 _ _ [百灵洞 I think] Tour guide argued with cave guide. Was so cold, could see my own breath!
Went out of the mountains, and round the city to a restaurant. Food was meh, drank a lot of rice wine though. Tasted weird but strong as hell. Wanted to see how long I’d take to get drunk. (I didn’t haha).
We’re waking at 7AM tomorrow (buffet :D), they said there’s more time to rest (?). I’m dead beat now.
Missing the Internet and the guys.
And 6 more days of this. Meeting old people? I’d rather go to a farm (or CIP).
Toilets aren’t too bad though, and travelling gives you time to rest and recollect…
Signing off, 11:37 PM
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Day 3
6:45 PM [Scarf Get! – Same hotel] #np Under my Thumb – Scott Pilgrim Original Movie Soundtrack
We’re at the same hotel. Heard tomorrow’s ride is 10 hours long. Yikes.
Miss the Internet blargh. Should’ve brought laptop. Damn.
Today morning we went down to the lakeside to have a river tour. It was pretty damn freezing so I wore 3 layers.
Then we went over to the government-owned version. There were a few really cute gals in the area. Our guide was pretty cute too, but our tour leader was kind of a dick and kept interrupting her.
We rowed through huge-ass caves which is something you definitely don’t see every day. There was a majesty in the rocks that enthralls and enraptures and big words. The way you could just pass through these areas with relative ease is something that really wows.
They kept trying to match rock formations to various animals and gods. Pish.
We had an hour long lunch at this deserted restaurant. Yup. -> It became bloody hot.
Then we had an hour-long trip to the 水晶洞 which was a pretty huge cave with strangely shaped rock formations they claimed were crystal formations.
Well, they probably were but didn’t look like it. [The colours were from lights]
Was joking throughout the entire tour with the twins.
Went out and bought a hairpin and 2 slingshots. Seems [sic] like shitty gifts though. Will buy better ones tomorrow.
Spent another 2 damn hours heading back, had dinner at the same place we had it yesterday. Was rather shit though.
Having been in Beijing a year ago, I’d say that the two places are pretty fuckin’ [COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY EXPLETIVE MUCH] similar. But surprisingly, this place [Bama] has better toilets and the people are awesome. Bama has way too many caves though.
The bus-rides seem like some off-road derby; the driver keeps attempting to overtake other cars in the 2-lane roads which are badly maintained and stuff. Soya bean milk is still unsweetened, and breakfast still sucks as much.
Well, during the trip I was wondering about tradition… When we grow up, will our traditional foods die along with the older generation? We’re too busy studying [LOL] to learn what ingredients go with what, and we’d most likely turn to the Internet for recipes. Death of tradition… Weirdly, I feel bad about it.
10:05 PM
We’re going to Guilin tomorrow. It’s probably gonna be cold as hell, 6-7 degrees Celsius. The stuff there’s gonna be better than Bama’s. Yeaah.
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