Lijiang - Shangrila, China 25/12/2006

We wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!! Jesus is born on Christmas day!!!

Today another tiring day cos we will be on the road most of the time...the whole journey from Lijiang to Shangrila is about 6 hours....aiyoh, sit till buttock pain leh!!!

Our 1st stop is at the 1st Bend of Yangtze River...nothing much to see lah...just a BEND lor...but it seems that according to history, this is a very important "bend"....we then drove another 1.5hours to Tiger Leaping Gorge, which is located between the famous Ha-Ba snowy mountain & Jade Dragon Snow Mountain and see the surging rapidly striking the riverbank. It's indeed a long walk...there's sedan there to take people up but most of us choose to take a walk...

We then pick up our "Zou Ma", our tour guide from Shangrila and proceed for lunch...lunch was no good...the place was so dirty, the food not too our taste, anyway we just grab a bit cos we will have a long journey on the bus....

OH>>>NO>>>>there was an accident, a van overturned...from the picture you can see our young reporter reporting the accident (hehee...that's Fanny's daughter, Michelle)...Our bus is too big to pass through...HAIZ....so we were stucked there till the local police come and settle this situation....many of us went down to see the accident but when the local almost fight, we quickly went back to the bus....we wasted almost 1.5-2 hrs there....

Because of this delay, we end up reaching Shangrila late....once we cleared through the jam, we told our "Zuo Ma" that we need to "sing song" (pass urine lah)....so they stop us somewhere by the road, quite "ulu" toilet...or should I say "local" toilet....NO DOORS...just a drain...a few of us quite uneasy using this toilet

On the way to Shangrila, the scenery was so nice, it's indeed "THE LOST HORIZON"....superb scenery....by the time we reach Shangrila, it was very dark liao and we went for dinner....since it's Christmas day, Chua Pin is so generous to sponsor us with a camp fire dinner at a tibetian family's home with roast lamb, roast suckling pig and roast chicken...due to some miscommunication, the first home was quite unpleasant...we left quite fast. "Zuo Ma" felt real bad and faster arrange another home for us to visit...the second one was good....the roast meat was so so but the performance was good....we had an enjoyable time there....we also join in and dance with the tibetian...

When we reach hotel, "Zuo Ma" advise us not to bath cos we won't want to catch a cold from Shangrila...me being very kiasi and obedient, followed the instruction....the heater in the room turned off around 2am....so I covered myself with blanket as many layer as I can....

Actually JW and I planned to meet Pastor Daniel's family n Sammy's family but too bad, we didn't manage to contact them...probably it's God's will....will have to visit Pastor Daniel some other time, if we have the opportunity to visit Shangrila again!!!

Once again MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of you!!!! God bless you!!!