Monday, April 18, 2005

in jiu zhai paradise.. the best hotel i stayed in so far since.. day 1.. lets see took a plane down from singapore to cheng du.. den took a bus from there all the way to jiang you.. stayed there one night.. 2nd day.. coach got us to jiu zhai gou.. after going thru terrible terrain... the road was realli realli bumpy..for like 3 hrs.. took about 6 hours to reach.. ofcoz with breaks in btw and visits to some memorial halls.. libai memorial hall.. yah.. on the way had to piss in some extremely atrociously diry toilets.. along the way.. really.. after doing biz in there.. u will think singapore toilets are the best.. tourgroup mate even had to do her business in the behind a rock.. haha.. in the freezing temperatures.. with the cover of an umbrella only.. haha... yah..

reached jiu zhai.. stayed in one of the lousier hotels for a night..

lots of ppl behind me speaking in sichuan slang.. mandarin la. but i can't understand..

anw.. that hotel not bad.. at least got heater and stuff.. managed to sleep.. the beds here are all pretty hard lehz.. not used to it.. ya..

onli yesterday we managed to check in to jiu zhai paradise.. realli lives up to its name of paradise.. its.. fantastic la.. we have to drive up to this ulu place up in the hills.. and there it is.. 2000+m up.. even have this capsule like hot spring which source is from some natural spring.. can accomadate 7000 over ppl i heard.. goin there tonite..

i've never seen so many yaks in my life.. even got to eat it. and there's snow! haha.. we had to pass one hill on the way from jiu zhai to goddess lake.. that hill is 3064m up.. so there's snow.. yah.. hmm.. can't realli recap wad happened now la.. been too busy taking photos and video taping everything..

met some nice ppl in our tour group.. the tour guides rather nice as well... the fish available here is all fresh water fish.. realli alot of small bones everywhere.. but the flesh is realli tender.. ya..

jiu zhai gou itself.. wah.. fantastic. waterfalls.. giant multi-coloured lakes and live fish.. the weather.. u realli have to see it to believe it. much better than lake tahoe.. its realli good. recommend everyone to take a visit here..

erm.. goddess lake isn't that fantastic especially in the weather today when we visited.. rain.. oh man.

yaks are actually pretty cute.. haha..

oh yeah.. learned a sichuan slang.. sza cji te le.. or zha si te le.. or fried hitler transleted in chinese.. its a greeting of some kind.. means wish u longevity or something.. haha..

okok.. i have to go now.. update this thing when its available again.. internet access is pretty rare in the mountains.. haven't talked bout the tibetian culture over here.. oh well.. nvm.. next time.

i go liao.. see ya. bb

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