I really need to breathe some fresh air outside the Beijing downtown. So I proposed Olive to go mountain-climbing on Saturday. But we eventually go to YanQing County because Josh invited us to see the ice sculpture together with him.
After lunch together, we took some time to find out the exact way to get Longqing Gorge, 90 km northwest of Beijing, and some of our friends decided not to go with us because they thought the destination was too far away. At last, only 5 persons took the Bus 919 to YanQing County about 15:00, including Josh, Laura, Henry, Olive and me. There are 919 "slow bus" and 919 "fast bus". We spent 1 and a half hours to arrive at Yan Qing, because we could only find the 919 "slow bus" in Shan He, where we started off. It costs 6RMB for each person. That's pretty cheap. But when we come back, we took the 919 " fast bus", which charged everybody 12RMB.
In Yan Qing, we have to take a private mini-van to get to Long Qing Gorge. In every bus station of travel spot, you will always get surrounded by a lot of people when you get off the vehicle. Those people overwhelm you attempting to persuade you to take their private car to the entrance of the spot. This kind of behavior is always annoying. At first, all of them offered us RMB 40, but we didn't show any interest on them. Finally one woman quoted us for 20 RMB and we accepted it. She warned us that if we wanted to return Beijing on the same day we would have to get back Yan Qin by 6:30. But we didn't take it serious because we think she just want to make some money form us and Laura think there must be some other way to get back Beijing. But we are wrong!
When we got back to Yan Qing, it was already past 19:00. The door of the bus station was closed, so we could only check the price of taxi. The taxi driver quoted RMB 200 for one car. Because we had five persons, so we would need two cars! Henry suggested that we could find a 24-hour KTV and stay there until dawn. Unfortunately, the only one KTV in Yan Qing would close at 2: 00 A.M. So we begun to find some recommedations but were rejected by many hotels. The reason is that those hotels don't have the license permitting them to recommedate foreigners. Josh was kind of upset about this situation. We all agreed that this kind of rule in China was ridiculous! Finally, we found Xia Du hotel with 60 RMB for each bed. We wanted to find an economical price for the night, because Laura would pay for all of us for the unexpected overnight. Well, thanks Laura's generosity!
After lunch together, we took some time to find out the exact way to get Longqing Gorge, 90 km northwest of Beijing, and some of our friends decided not to go with us because they thought the destination was too far away. At last, only 5 persons took the Bus 919 to YanQing County about 15:00, including Josh, Laura, Henry, Olive and me. There are 919 "slow bus" and 919 "fast bus". We spent 1 and a half hours to arrive at Yan Qing, because we could only find the 919 "slow bus" in Shan He, where we started off. It costs 6RMB for each person. That's pretty cheap. But when we come back, we took the 919 " fast bus", which charged everybody 12RMB.
In Yan Qing, we have to take a private mini-van to get to Long Qing Gorge. In every bus station of travel spot, you will always get surrounded by a lot of people when you get off the vehicle. Those people overwhelm you attempting to persuade you to take their private car to the entrance of the spot. This kind of behavior is always annoying. At first, all of them offered us RMB 40, but we didn't show any interest on them. Finally one woman quoted us for 20 RMB and we accepted it. She warned us that if we wanted to return Beijing on the same day we would have to get back Yan Qin by 6:30. But we didn't take it serious because we think she just want to make some money form us and Laura think there must be some other way to get back Beijing. But we are wrong!
When we got back to Yan Qing, it was already past 19:00. The door of the bus station was closed, so we could only check the price of taxi. The taxi driver quoted RMB 200 for one car. Because we had five persons, so we would need two cars! Henry suggested that we could find a 24-hour KTV and stay there until dawn. Unfortunately, the only one KTV in Yan Qing would close at 2: 00 A.M. So we begun to find some recommedations but were rejected by many hotels. The reason is that those hotels don't have the license permitting them to recommedate foreigners. Josh was kind of upset about this situation. We all agreed that this kind of rule in China was ridiculous! Finally, we found Xia Du hotel with 60 RMB for each bed. We wanted to find an economical price for the night, because Laura would pay for all of us for the unexpected overnight. Well, thanks Laura's generosity!
So we owned a very huge room with total 8 beds. The only problem with this room was that the heater didn't work! Otherwise, this is a prefect room because it's very clean and large.
We went to sing KTV for 3 hours because there was no other choice to go in Yan Qing. All of the coffee shop and stores close right at 20:00.
This is an unexpected journey. None of us ever thought that we would stay overnight in Yang Qin. I think that is what life is alwyas all about. We never know what is going to happen at the next moment! We have to equip ourselves to manage all kind of possibilities!
As for the scenery, I think it's just ok for me because I have seen the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in 2003, which has a larger scale of exhibition of all kinds of fascinating ice sculptures. But for the purpose of breathing some fresh air, I think I do get what I asked for!
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