What I've been up to …

With very tired and aching legs, we started the day (Sunday) much later and with no ambitious destinations in mind.

First we headed back to the restaurant at Jinjiaba Street for lunch.

Again, with no Chinese language, we ordered by choosing the pictures in the menu (how I wish they have more pictures!). We ended up with 2 dishes of beef (we intended to have one chicken dish).

This beef dish was hot and spicy:

It tasted like the dish DH used to cook (yes, he once was a good cook!) using the bharat spice we blended ourselves.

The other beef dish was more like a very spicy and dry stir fry beef:

Both the beef dishes were very oily to me , but they sure tasted good.

The other dish was a kerabu (salad?) with tripe pieces inside:

I don’t like the taste of tripe, so I couldn’t enjoy the dish.

After the lunch, we took a cab to the famous reconstructed “ancient” Jinli Street.

The items on sale are similar to those I found in Yangshuo, but with highly marked up prices . I didn’t intend to buy anything anyway. Never mind that even in Yangshuo I didn’t buy much, hahaha!

The Chinese are surely very creative. They had animal-shaped candies, and many other crafty items for sale.

I was excited to see some early blooms of the cherry blossoms:

Spring is near!

I don’t know why I agreed to have a photo taken at this little bridge:

The local’s favourite food:

A final shot of the place:

We walked back towards the town, thinking that it was near! After a while (and when my legs started to ache badly) we took a cab back back to the hotel – so easy peasy!

We went out much later, just for a stroll near the shopping mall.

There were soooo many people, that the photos couldn’t really capture the actual scenario.

View from a pedestrian flyover (which is exactly above the main street!):

I was getting very homesick then…

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