Asia Trip: Day 146 - Yangshuo 阳朔 (6/8/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up early at 7:00am, felt tired then went back to bed at 9:30am

  • I went to the local market at 8:00am

  • Woke up again at 12:30pm

  • Rented a little scooter and took it all along the Li River

    • It was so hot and I didn’t drink any water

    • I was the hype man for this woman’s bamboo chicken stand

    • Felt terrible - so I came back and napped

    • Got KFC, ran into a Spanish guy and napped

  • I woke up and McDonald’s for dinner

  • Talked with my Dad on the phone

  • Got some drinks with people from the hostel

    
    

Asia Trip: Day 147 - Yangshuo 阳朔 (6/9/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Woke up and it’s pouring, I waffled for a bit and then got a petrol bike for the day

• Rode for three hours IN THE PISSING RAIN

  • Got so stoked

  • Rode back to the hostel to hang out

• Talked to Dad

• Talked to Mom

• Impulsively decided to venture to Laozhai hill 老寨山 for sunset

  • Rode a half an hour in the rain, finally got there, got lost for a bit and then found the trail

  • Sprinted up the mountain in fifteen minutes, it normally takes forty minutes to get to the top

  • SUNSET WAS AMAZING - SO MANY GOOD PICS

  • I rolled my ankle at the top :/

  • I went down the mountain in the rain, in the dark, by myself with a bum ankle

  • FELT SO ALIVE

• I rode a half an hour back in the dark

• I got home, felt so accomplished, so wet and badass

  • Took a hot shower and felt v nice

• Got some food, chatted with some people and passed out

WHAT A DAY, WHAT A HIKE, FELT SO ALIVE

Asia Trip: Day 148 - Yangshuo 阳朔(6/10/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Slept in until 10:15 am

• Ankle felt a bit stiff

• I iced my ankle, read Gai Jin, and practiced Chinese

• Took a nap

• Went out and got some noodles with friends

• BOUGHT TICKETS TO ZHANGJIAJIE, SO STOKED

• I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

  • It was very strange, not what I thought

Asia Trip: Day 149 - Yangshuo 阳朔 => Zhangjiajie 张家界 (6/11/19)

Daily Highlights:

• Slept in until 9:30am

• Wandered around the streets and the markets

  • 我的早饭是很多香蕉

• I read a bit at the hostel, got Kung Pao Chicken and then left to Guilin

• Took a bus to Guilin station (1 hour bus ride) then took the public transportation to 桂林站

• I waited for three hours

• A friendly woman helped me with my Chinese

  • I LEARNED HOW TO YELL AT PEOPLE TO STOP CUTTING THE LINE

  • 排队 & 去后面排队

• I took a one hour train ride to Liuzhou

  • Walked around for an hour and got some dinner

• Went back to the train station and waited for half an hour

  • I saw some guy staring at me on the long escalator ride, so I said in Chinese “Hey look at the foreigner! HEY, HEY, LOOK” and his wife lost it, laughed and told all of her friends

  • The husband hung his head in shame

• I made it to my train car and I’m in the top bunk

  • I’m the only foreigner in this entire eighteen carriage train

China Meandering Musings:

• Everyone shamelessly picks their nose

• Alot of people blast the volume on their phones

• You can FEEL the middle class growing

• Everyone is WAY more western than what they used to be even five years ago

• Everyone loves the NBA, Golden State and Kobe (but not Lebron haha)

• SO MANY CHINESE TOURISTS

• Alot of people love to be unrealistically helpful

  • “Add me on WeChat and I’ll help you with directions all over China and where to find things！”

• SO NICE AND CURIOUS