Stupid phone wake up call woke me up again.This time at 6.3oam. Trudged myself to the bathroom to get ready. After breakfast we went to the Nanchang Ceramic Cultural centre. There, we got to see how the porceline articles were made, the old fashioned method. At 9.30 we went on a 3 hour bus ride to Lu Shan(Mount Lu). We reached the Lu Shan Geopark (something like the Langkawi Geopark) at about almost 1pm. The entry fee for the geopark is definitely not cheap. The cost per person is about 120 yuan. We had lunch, which was unsurprisingly, unspectacular again.
The temperature here ranges from -2 in the night to 8 in the afternoon. All i can say is that, even in the afternoon i was freaking cold. And i wore 3 layers of clothing excluding my jacket. After lunch we headed to some paronamic spot to take pictures and then visited some old colonial houses. it seems that foreigners once used this place as a retreat. soon after they were ousted, it became a holiday spot among the Communist leaders. It was here that i bought a fan that has a poetry written in it. and in the poetry it contained my name in chinese. Very creative indeed. It was also here we got a chance to pose for pictures wearing Communist clothing.
We then headed to the hotel to check in before proceeding for dinner. After dinner, all of us rushed back to our rooms to take a shower as they told us that there will only be hot water from 6 to 10pm only. after dinner we decided to out out into town despite it being very very cold and it was drizzling. But since we only had 1 night to stay there, we might as well go and walk around. God knows when we will return to this place again. The town was peaceful, quiet and the streets were very safe. The things that we bought here were pretty cheap, despite it being a tourist area.
The gardens here are very nicely lighted up and as usual, the streets were clean. By the time we got back to our rooms it was about 10.30pm. Damn cold nite it was, but I was glad i wnet out to see this beautiful town. TOugh day ahead as we will be doing some serious hiking towards the top of mount Lu tomoro.
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