Music: Symposium - Fairweather Friend
I was picked up in the lobby of my hotel today at 8:40am for the 45min drive to the pontoon from which the sight seeing boats leave. There were 5 of the 3 story vessels in our little convoy down the river and I was soon stood on the top deck watching the alien scenery waltz past. The area is famed for it's small limestone hills, all jutting up from the ground haphazardly, and the winding river that runs down in between them.
As I'm now back into the tropics, the weather is misty / foggy most of the year round. This didn't exaclty make for good photographic conditions for the frankly bizarre landscapes that I was presented with. The boat trip in total is 4 hours long and set off at 9:30am. Although my guide was also on board, I was sat with the only other english speakers on the boat, two Brits and two Americans. I had some quite interesting conversations with the british lady as she works for Westminster PCT and as such had an understanding of what we had done at ScriptSwitch. Just before midday they served lunch on board but while we were sat eatin we passed the most famous part of the landscape, as featured on the Chinese 20 yuan note.
Once off the boat, I was taken to my hotel and then agreed with my guide that I'd meet her tomorrow afternoon to take a bike tour of the area and then go to the light show in the evening. This is arranged by the same guy who put together the opening ceremony of the Olympic games and is the largest outdoor light show in China (apparently).
This evening I went to a restaurant for food but ended up getting a dish that was nowhere nearly as spicy as I'd been looking for. Afterwards I was told that they tone down all of the dishes for western tourists, as most of them don't like spicy food! I'll go back there tomorrow as the food was rather nice, but I've got to ask for it spicy next time...
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