Train ride to Wengzhou was fine. I got to sleep surprisingly well - Riina was not so lucky unfortunately. This time we had soft sleeper which meant we had soft seats which you could recline a bit. Hard seat is the one we took to Tai'an apparently - this is where we sat on a hard wooden bench squeezed in with all the locals next to us and people standing in the aisle. The train where we had beds - this was apparently hard sleeper - soft sleeper being more luxurious with separate cabinets having 4 beds on 2 levels not 6 beds on 3 levels like the hard sleeper had.
Train arrived to Wengzhou around 7 in the morning. Got directions for the bus station, arranged a bus to Xiamen the same evening, leaving at 18:30. It will be around 8h bus ride. Left our luggage to the bus station. Also got directions on how to get to town and then back again (asked them to write the bus station name in chinese just in case as there are multiple stations here). While walking away from the station there was a group of locals who tried to get into Riinas back bag :( They managed to open the bag up but then Riina noticed them. I have secured my back bags zippers so that it is not possible to simply open them - you'd have to unclip them first, so i'd hear the clip being opened and after unclipping you still have to untangle the zipper strings to unzip the bag - pretty secure system :) . Later a local girl warned us about burglers in the bus and train station as well.
Getting to the town was a hassle as first we took a bus to a wrong direction :) It was quite difficult to get people to help us find directions once we got off the bus as first of all they were quite unwilling to help and also because they did not speak english at all. Finally one half local helped us who spoke quite good english and double checked the directions with his friend by phone. Getting to town was almost 2,5h adventure for us :D
About the town - well we walked around in a blazing sun - it was so hot hot hot, quite unmanageable. At the local pedestrian walk the only eating place we found was Pizza Hut :) so we had a very nice breakfast, consisting of hot chocolate and pepperoni pizza for me :D Pizza Hut is considerably more expensive than any local food place though. Later we walked around in town - what can I say, of all those places we have been so far, i'd say this was a totally pointless place :) To kill time we were trying to find an internet place, but the street did not have enough houses on it so we gave up and spend our afternoon at a local park bench napping and reading amongst the locals who were mostly napping :D Those benches were in shade as well so it worked out quite well - nice and relaxing.
Made our way back to the bus station and had dinner. Dinner ended up being a disaster - they wrote down our orded totally wrong, this seemed impossible though as i was mostly pointing at pictures when ordering. It was amazingly difficult to make them understand that this is not what we ordered and we will not be eating it - please bring us other food. After looots of explaining with pen and paper and pointing at pictures and showing with our hands we ended up what we ordered and got some money back for thing we did not order but they wrote down for us. Uh oh.
Later cleaned up a bit, changed clothes and then it was time to board the bus already. To our surprize the bus was equipped with beds :D :D Riina was on the lower bunk and i was above her on the upper one. There were local movies playing the whole night. Right above my head were the speakers, luckily only the first movies sound was crancked up, later the sound was turned down so it did not disturb my sleep. Another thing was the air conditioning - it blew absolutely freezing air to my feet and face :( Luckily the blanket provided was very thick so my feet were fine, for my head i ended up wrapping a blanked pilfered from finnair flight around my head and throat so that only my noze got air :D worked like a charm for cold air and for the noise as well. Got my beautisleep in without any major problems.
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Teil kuum päike, aga meil Eestis on samuti mitmekesine ilm: natuke vihmane(sagarate vahel veidi kuiva) vihmane (sagarate vahel vahet polegi)väga vihmane (pole võimalik aru saada, kas sajab ülevalt alla või alt üles lõputult). Kottidega arusaamatused juhtuvad igal pool. Hea, et Riina kott "minema ei kõndinud". Olge tublid!! M & M
ilma kallal kyll v2ga nuriseda ei saa jah, kuigi riinal hakkab see l6putu palavus juba yle viskama vaikselt. minule aga meeldib igati :) naudin niikaua kui seda antakse!
T2na 6htul kimame bussiga hong kongi l2hedusse :)
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