www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Lifestyle

My wanderings in the Chinese wonderland

By Patrick Whiteley ( China Daily ) Updated: 2011-01-04 10:36:09

The beeping Guangdong bus driver is driving me beeping crazy, and I demand to get off his beeping coach.

My wanderings in the Chinese wonderland

This veteran wheelman with a silly grin is thumping his horn every three seconds whether he needs to or not. It is like a nervous twitch, and because I am in the front seat, there is no escaping a death by 1,000 honks.

It is only the first hour of a 10-hour journey to Shenzhen, Guangdong province, and my request to get off surprises the female bus tour director.

"Nobody gets off the bus. There are no towns. There are no hotels," she reiterates in Chinese.

One minute and another 10 beeps later, I point to a clump of buildings about 5 km away. "Town? Hotels?" I ask.

"No, and no!" the young woman insists.

The beeping forces action. I get off and stand on the side of a dusty highway with my bags and a relish for adventure. I'd hitched around the US, the UK and Australia, and knew I could make it to Shenzhen on my own steam.

That's when my journey takes a very interesting turn. For the next 24 hours, I am Alice in Wonderland, falling deep down China's rabbit hole.

My trip began on the ocean. I'd caught trains, planes and automobiles everywhere around China but had never been spirited away across the seas until I had caught a boat from Hainan province.

Our tour director lines us up on the Haikou wharf. She makes a head count, and then marches us onto the big, old ferry. I rush to the top deck, taking in the fantastic view.

The Guangdong coastline is huge, and my imagination runs wild. I dream of the pirates who once sailed from the Philippines and plundered these very seas. But before I could say "Captain Jack Swallow", the ferry arrives, and we board the beeping bus.

So there I am, standing on the side of the highway. I don't know where I am, the sun is going down, and I need a hotel. I see a police station, so I enter repeating "ni hao". A uniformed policeman appears with a surprised "what-the-hell-are-you-doing-here" look on his face.

"I need a hotel. Can you tell me the closest town, and can I call a taxi?"

The cop smiles and drives me to a town. He walks me into the hotel foyer, and the receptionist girls look up, surprised.

My wanderings in the Chinese wonderland

I book a night, freshen up and go to the hotel's restaurant. The entire 10 waiting staff circle my table looking surprised. They ask who I am and where I'm from and stare as I answer in Chinese. A waitress says there had been no foreigners here for a few years. She also tells me there are no buses to Shenzhen.

The following morning, I decide to break my budget and hire a car with a driver. I'm determined to get to Shenzhen on my own.

I ask about hiring a car. "No, and no," say the receptionists, just like the tour guide. "Who would want to do that? What a waste of money!" they must be thinking. Hearing "no" makes me more determined.

Outside the hotel, there is a little stall, and I buy a coke and cigarettes, take a seat, light up and wait for my ride.

As expected, some locals soon join me, hear me speaking Chinese and ask me who I am and where I'm from, and why I am here. I ask if they know anyone who has a car and if their car-owning friend was keen to make 1,000 yuan.

I was expecting the "no, and no", but money talks in all languages, and the answer was, "yes, yes".

About 20 minutes later I'm sitting in the backseat of a speeding car, drinking beer, listening to very loud Canto dance music and saying, "yes, yes, yes".

Tags
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 加勒比日本 | 亚州国产| 精品国产杨幂在线观看福利 | 成人三级做爰在线视频 | 亚洲国产最新 | 欧美日比视频 | 欧美无玛| 国产不卡精品一区二区三区 | fulidown国产精品合集 | 特级做a爰片毛片免费看一区 | 在线观看日本亚洲一区 | 国产一级毛片午夜 | 色综合天天综合网看在线影院 | 亚洲综合一区二区精品久久 | 波多野在线视频 | 天天看片日本 | 中文字幕亚洲精品日韩精品 | 99视频精品在线 | 在线观看免费毛片 | 毛片1毛片2毛片3毛片4 | 91久久亚洲国产成人精品性色 | 国产禁女女网站免费看 | 国产乱纶 | 日韩在线二区 | 亚洲国产精品一区二区久久 | 欧美久久视频 | 免费特黄一区二区三区视频一 | 在线视频观看免费视频18 | 欧美日韩在线播一区二区三区 | 国产欧美日韩三级 | 日本高清视频一区二区 | 亚洲免费在线看 | 精品欧美小视频在线观看 | 亚洲看黄| 欧美成人鲁丝片在线观看 | 亚洲精品综合 | 成人毛片免费观看视频大全 | 国产亚洲精品久久久久久午夜 | 久久香蕉国产视频 | 欧美三级一区二区三区 | 欧美成人精品三级网站 |