Just feel like writing a few more points.
Security Concerns..
Just before I set off, I was taught :
后面是大众的 ；旁边是别人的；前面是自己的。
Haha.. That should be the mentality we should adopt about how to safe keep our valuables.
Okay, it seems that pick-pocket (or even robbery) is rampant at some parts of China. A particularly hot spot that we set particularly close to was the train station at Guangzhou.
Along our journey near there (but not there), I was talking to a local. Upon knowing that I was travelling near that train station, he said : 你要小心哦。就是钱财不要露眼。那个地方上比较复杂一点。
Mm.. I tell you, even the taxi drivers we met near that hot spot behave differently. Got attitude man! I shall talk about this in other section.
Oh, I must add on, in case you get the wrong picture. Besides that hot spot, we feel safe / comfortable / good everywhere else. In fact, once while I was waiting and holding a map, a middle-aged local at Chengdu even approached voluntarily and asked where I was going and seemingly he wanted to help. Cool!
Quality of Air..
There was always a mystery layer of mist around Chengdu city. Aiya.. I mean we didn’t see clear blue sky or white clouds. We saw greyish cloud hovering not too far above us almost all the time, unless just after a rain. It could be really uncomfortable coupling with the near 30 degrees temperature.
A simple swap with a white tissue paper within our nostrils at the end of the day… erm… you see that the white tissue paper turns dark grey or black. Eee…
The air at Guangzhou city was only slightly better.
Maybe it was just the summer season.
Anyway, the air from Songpan and further north was great great great.
Toilets..
Those public toilets along our journey can be quite a culture-shock. You may have heard about it. Sometimes, we didn’t see cubicles. Maybe it’s more right to call it partition, because the walls between each user are only slightly above waist-high. Sometimes, we didn’t see toilet bowls (not even those squatting type), we saw a not-too-wide long (usually slightly sloping) drain, partitioned (by those waist-high walls) accordingly. So theoretically speaking, if you are doing business at the lower end, you may see the product constantly flowing pass down you. Sometimes, we didn’t even see doors. Power right? Haha.. Oh, it is a better idea not to expect the provision of toilet paper also.
I must add on, some of those public toilets didn’t even look clean (you may see feces not flushed away almost at every partition). And of course, the stench was there. Still, they charge a fee of RMB 50 cents (equivalent to our 10 cents) for using such toilets. Wa..
Maybe they just interpret public toilet differently. So the private features (we dearly hope to have) are removed. Haha..
Okay, not to scare you further. We don’t use public toilets that often right?
In general, we wouldn’t be able to see much difference (in the quality of the toilet compared to ours at home) if we were to just stay at the hotel room (with toilet and bathroom facilities). They are pretty good and … very private. :P
There are plenty of toilets made available at tourist attractions. They are usually quite standard and acceptable. Just that some may not have a simple washing point to wash our hands. Those portable toilets within Jiuzhaigou are clean and pretty high-tech actually.
Maybe it’s a good practice to do big business early in the morning at the comfort of the toilet within our hotel room before we set off to look-look-see-see for the day.
Okay, enough toilet-talk.
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