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Chongqing. What a place! Ok so when you get out of the taxi, I can't decide whether the stench is that of wet dog or gone off fish, either way it is nasty and everywhere you go.. This is probably what they call real China!? I don't know what I was expecting from this place but it wasn't what I had pictured. It was so built up and had the sardine flats, you know the ones where one person has one window! This place has definitely shocked me though. It just isn't like the other three places at all!
Anyway, after we all manned up a bit and held our breath things got funny weird! We went into a local hotel and then paid for a room for just three hours. Since when do hotels charge you by the hour unless its one of those hotels, you know, the naughty ones!? So me and three of the other girls shared a room and it cost us £1.50 each.. Cheap and cheerful. You can imagine how mature we still were when we walked into our room to find a box of tissues and a vibration ring (mum I'm just reading what is on the box, I'm still innocent).. It was like the start of some weird movie - 4 girls, 2 beds and 1 ring. We all tried to avoid touching things, had a shower and left as soon as we could!
Realising you are on a boat for two days we go shopping in a Carrefour thinking we could get normal-ish western food. The closest I got was rip-off Pringles called Toss and a big bottle of Sprite. However, I feel like I am winning at life with that combination! Oh but proper weird when you are walking around and people are catching fish they want to buy. Like actually going fishing in the supermarket. Real fish that are alive and breathing and people take the net to the one they want to eat. How do they sleep at night??
We are now leaving for the Yangtze River where I'm probably going to be put on some little Chinese wooden boat with bunks for the next two days. I'm sure seeing the gorges will make up for that and the 5 hours on a bus..
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