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Asia, part II: China (2)

Richard Rosss
2006-04-03 13:38:02

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12/4 - Up earlyish and packed up. Went for some lunch. Hopped on bus to Shanghai's train station (like an airport ut 10x more crowded!). Jumped on a sleeper to Wuhan about 18 hrs south west. Cabin was open plan with 6 beds in it. Kath and I took the top 2 (everybody sits on the bottom beds). Had some noodles/fruit for dinner. Trains were pretty decent and there was a constant stream of folk getting hot water for noodles/teas. I have started to drink at left at every opportune moment. Lights were out at 10ish - we discovered...

13/4 - Wuhan
I woke at 8ish with the all the locals sitting sipping tea watching me...I grabbed some noodles for brekkie andjust watched the world go by. Chatted to some local folk in the next cabin who lived in Wuhan. We arrived at 10ish to discover that ferries don't leave from here anymore [due to the dam blocking the rver]. So we hopped in a us which we don't know for about an hour was the right one - a bit of a worry. Bus was a mini-bus with constant movies.

300k later [5hrs] we arrived at Yichang and booked our ferry tkts for the following morning. We tried to find the hostel that the LP recommended - which turned out to be a tastefully decorated brothel whose staff run a mile when they saw me... Eventually we found the hostel and managed to have a nice cold shower. Went to the st vendors for some amazing food then went for a walk along river and across a big bridge [China likes its big bridges] for our first first glimpse of the Yangtze river. Bought some food for ferry ride later - introduced Kath to the pleasures of eating sunflower seeds...
Yichang had loads of brothels disguised as hairdressers [like elsewhere in China] with nice pink mood lighting!

14/4 - Yichang - Chongquig
Jumped on the 7am bus to just past the dam. The dam and project is huge, worlds biggest, and we saw it almost completed in the morning mist. Boarded boat and sussed out cabin/others. The ...