13MAR10

Woke up early in the morning for breakfast at 6am. If that wasn’t enough, breakfast wasn’t nice or rather, it didn’t really satisfy our taste buds. Hence, most of us were whining and complaining.

We went to Shen Nong Xi, this stream which flows into the Yangtze River from the hilly regions of Shen Nong Jia. There, we experienced the famous Qian Fu La Qian. Qian is a small wooden boat, much like our sampan. Qian fu is the person who controls this small boat. Hnece Qian Fu La Qian would mean a person pulling a boat. Literally, the person would use a rope that is tied onto the boat to pull it from shore. In the past when the water is pretty shallow, they would use the stones grab onto the stones on the ground in the stream to pull themselves forward, hence the boat as well. Now that the water is actually pretty deep, they don’t have to get wet anymore since they can only pull from a distance on shore. Also in the past, the locals who pull these boats were all naked men. But nowadays, they wear modern clothes.
An example, a dark blue sweater.
From where we alighted from the main ferry, the locals, mainly men over 40s, had to row the boats for about an hour, where we’ll reach the shallower waters.Then, they can run onto shore with the rope and pull for awhile, and come back to row us back. The pulling only lasted for about, 5 minutes. So that part is really quite 'extra'. Can see the 2 people with the rope?
Then the tour guide started selling us souvenirs and she was rather pushy. Because it's not very often that they get to have tourists, hence she wanted to earn as much as she can from us. But her behaviour was rather offending.

After that, we left the place and out cruise carried on, bringing us to our next stop, Bai Di Cheng, directly translated as White Emperor City.

It's a pretty old structure built on top of a hill, with very nice scenery over looking mountains and the Yangtze River.To reach there, we have to climb this flight of stairs that has close to 400 steps. If you look from the bottom, it looks quite intimidating.But after you've conquered it, it looks rather small and harmless.This thought makes even more looking forward to the Wudang Hill trip. :)

The place is made made tourist-friendly, which means the environment is specially reconstructed beautifully to attract the eyes of tourists. This make the place look too new to be a historical building.
After gaining entryOverlooking the bridgeThe city gate. This is an added detail, not built together with the original buildingThis is an old structure

After decending the mountain, we took the bus to the jetty and returned to the cruise.

Labels: OIP IS MODULE

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13MAR10

Woke up early in the morning for breakfast at 6am. If that wasn’t enough, breakfast wasn’t nice or rather, it didn’t really satisfy our taste buds. Hence, most of us were whining and complaining.

We went to Shen Nong Xi, this stream which flows into the Yangtze River from the hilly regions of Shen Nong Jia. There, we experienced the famous Qian Fu La Qian. Qian is a small wooden boat, much like our sampan. Qian fu is the person who controls this small boat. Hnece Qian Fu La Qian would mean a person pulling a boat. Literally, the person would use a rope that is tied onto the boat to pull it from shore. In the past when the water is pretty shallow, they would use the stones grab onto the stones on the ground in the stream to pull themselves forward, hence the boat as well. Now that the water is actually pretty deep, they don’t have to get wet anymore since they can only pull from a distance on shore. Also in the past, the locals who pull these boats were all naked men. But nowadays, they wear modern clothes.
An example, a dark blue sweater.
From where we alighted from the main ferry, the locals, mainly men over 40s, had to row the boats for about an hour, where we’ll reach the shallower waters.Then, they can run onto shore with the rope and pull for awhile, and come back to row us back. The pulling only lasted for about, 5 minutes. So that part is really quite 'extra'. Can see the 2 people with the rope?
Then the tour guide started selling us souvenirs and she was rather pushy. Because it's not very often that they get to have tourists, hence she wanted to earn as much as she can from us. But her behaviour was rather offending.

After that, we left the place and out cruise carried on, bringing us to our next stop, Bai Di Cheng, directly translated as White Emperor City.

It's a pretty old structure built on top of a hill, with very nice scenery over looking mountains and the Yangtze River.To reach there, we have to climb this flight of stairs that has close to 400 steps. If you look from the bottom, it looks quite intimidating.But after you've conquered it, it looks rather small and harmless.This thought makes even more looking forward to the Wudang Hill trip. :)

The place is made made tourist-friendly, which means the environment is specially reconstructed beautifully to attract the eyes of tourists. This make the place look too new to be a historical building.
After gaining entryOverlooking the bridgeThe city gate. This is an added detail, not built together with the original buildingThis is an old structure

After decending the mountain, we took the bus to the jetty and returned to the cruise.

Labels: OIP IS MODULE

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