Hongjiang old town

25.10.2013

The next day I was woken up by some sort of carnival music which seemed to be traveling around, passing by my motel once every 10 minutes. It was 7 am. No problem, I relaxed with some tea and went out for some noodles for breakfast. See how well I'm assimilating???<br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: normal;"> Anywho, the ancient town of hong jiang was really nice, although not really good for anything but taking pictures. There were ruins of an old temple, a restored brothel and a newer temple too. I got bored pretty quickly and left after a couple hours.<br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: normal;"><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: normal;">When I finally found the bus station, there wasn't a bus leaving until 3:40. I reluctantly bought a ticket and headed out to find my Halloween costume. Why not right? I wanted to get a real Chinese lady dress but nothing was really what I wanted. Then I found this insane green leopard print dress that fit pretty well and I thought I might make a good Peggy bundy with it, but better judgment got the best of me and I put it down.

Then I stopped at the 2 yuan store and guess what I found. A cheap mask of a communist revolutionary fighter! I already have a camo jacket and some cargo pants, so all I had to do was get me a toy sniper gun and I was ready to go! Lucky me, they had one at the same store! My halloween costume was done

Still with three hours to spare before the bus came. Feeling hungry, i went looking for the riverside restaurants described in the book but they were in complete ruins and locked up, burnt down or demolished! So, I picked up some sort of fried dough with peppers and mushrooms inside and a beer, sat down by the river in the sun and read a book with the old men under the willow trees. <br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: normal;">The bus home was almost an hour late and the waiting room stunk like pee so I tried to wait on the platform. I had to fight with the manager lady to stay out there, it was quite bizarre.

By the time I got home, it was 11 p.m. I had to walk from the train station because my bus home stops at 10 p.m. Sad face.

Noodle shop