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INDIVIDUAL VOYAGE THROUGH CHINA DURING 7 WEEKS PEKING XIAN CHENGDU CHONGQING YANGTZE RIVER MOUNTS HUANGSHAN HANGZHOU SUZHOU SHANGHAI PEKING
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
End of our Cruising
5.10.1990
We get like on the San Xia a two berths cabin where we reach passing close the cheap dormitories in the bottom of the boat. There, pitiful travelers among their packages, baskets etc. Soon the motors start to hum. We go off the bank navigating to Guichi, a small port where the large boats do not put in.
Sitting on the sunny deck we enjoy our last hours of rest on The Large River. I am already in thought with the Mounts Huangshan, the chief point in search of the unknown. Being inveterate mountain walkers we couldn’t resist the call of that magic mountain Li Bai (poet I cited during our stay in Chengdu) lauded in several poems. It became a high tourist place. It’s easy to reach there from Shanghai but it would be a long way round. From Guichi we can go there by bus – 180km. Unfortunately in LP nothing about this. We are informed there is a bus at 7AM. Waiting that new experience we talk with our neighbor, a young intellectual. He is as gallant as charming, sportily dressed, very elegant! It’s the opportunity to note new “crafts” to ease the rest of our voyage. About midnight something is wrong in the corner near my head. I awake Milan who finds a mouse in my night table! No more sleep until the early morning when we accost at Guichi.
5.10.1990
We get like on the San Xia a two berths cabin where we reach passing close the cheap dormitories in the bottom of the boat. There, pitiful travelers among their packages, baskets etc. Soon the motors start to hum. We go off the bank navigating to Guichi, a small port where the large boats do not put in.
Sitting on the sunny deck we enjoy our last hours of rest on The Large River. I am already in thought with the Mounts Huangshan, the chief point in search of the unknown. Being inveterate mountain walkers we couldn’t resist the call of that magic mountain Li Bai (poet I cited during our stay in Chengdu) lauded in several poems. It became a high tourist place. It’s easy to reach there from Shanghai but it would be a long way round. From Guichi we can go there by bus – 180km. Unfortunately in LP nothing about this. We are informed there is a bus at 7AM. Waiting that new experience we talk with our neighbor, a young intellectual. He is as gallant as charming, sportily dressed, very elegant! It’s the opportunity to note new “crafts” to ease the rest of our voyage. About midnight something is wrong in the corner near my head. I awake Milan who finds a mouse in my night table! No more sleep until the early morning when we accost at Guichi.
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