Hossa...............Its monday night, only one more day that we got to spend in China....
Yesterday we went to Yang-Mei, a small village about 1.5hours (it took us 2) from Nanning. The village itself was nice (Ancient old village Yang Mai), a little too touristy (though those tourists were mainly Chinese people), but the bus ride to get there was unforgettable. We crossed a river on a ferry and the bus went so fast.. Actually it only went 70km/h but on those streets it felt crazy. That was better than Bungee-Jumping and any of those things. We passed little villages and the bus was full of Chinese people.. It was great. And it was hoooot. It must have been at least 35degrees. There was a Confucian temple and at a little on-the-way-tempel we lit up candles and inscence sticks for our families and the people we love.
We got back sometime in the evening, bought mangos and ate.
Today we wanted to get up early to get to the botanical herbal garden of herbs (or so) but when we finally left the hotel we couldnt find the bus.. Walked along the streets and passed this little nice restaurant where we had those really good noodles a few days ago so we decided to eat some more... We did that (YUMMIE) and asked some policemen on the street for bud number 101 or 102 (which were supposed to go to the garden), he told us to go to that one bus stop, blablabla, finally we went to this one busstop where bus 101 was going from, we asked a lady and she took us on her hands and went with us to the other side of the street, talked to people and finally to the bus driver..she was lovely. We went to that garden and it was nice. We saw trees with roots and leaves against rheuma and all different sorts of diseases. And it was hot. We saw caged geckos, drank tea and enjoyed the silence. We went back and bought some more fruits. Ever heard of Polemos? They look like huge grapefruits but they are sooo good. And more mangos, though MANGO - NOT IN SEASON. We were all about getting another one of these oh-so-good-mango-juices, but the place we wanted to get them - wasnt there anymore! we were so sad. We went to another place where we got one but that wasnt nearly as good as the one we had before. :)
Nothing really exciting happened then. Oh actually it did, we got our visa to Vietnam! We went there again in the bus and there was a little girl, starring at us, and finally she asked "where are you going" (or maybe it was "where are you from") so i said that we go to the vietnamese embassy and she looked a little confused cause she didnt understand. Neither she knew where Germany was I think but what can you do... And then we got our visa! Yay!
One more day in China...We keep dreaming of small and quite cities, beaches and rainforest. Lets see if we wake up or if we can keep dreaming...