Day 12 - A Day Out

Had a really tired but fun day today! Woke up early in the morning at 6.30am to prepare ourselves for the day tour. Boarded the bus and we were off to enjoy for the day. Went to quite a few places for sightseeing and plainly just to enjoy ourselves!

Our tour guide for this 2 days!

Our first destination was the east lake, the scenery here is really nice and the place was really windy! We could choose to either take the buggy for 20rmb person whereby they will take you to all the scenic spots or just walk explore the place ourselves. All of us chose to walk since we just want to enjoy the cool morning breeze and save some money.
The East Lake

The buggy service!


Our tour guide explaining to us the history of East Lake

Nice scenery right? :P


Nice place to have a morning jog!

Maple Leaf

The statue of Qu Yuan

Our next destination is the Hubei Provincial Museum. Whereby we saw alot of artefacts of the past. How does a coffin looks like, having an accompanying coffin for the Emperor and so on. How do their weapons look like, their utensils, suitcases, musical instruments and many more. It is really interesting since you are looking at the REAL stuffs instead of those duplicate you see back in Singapore. This really open up the history of China right before your eyes!

This exhibit shows the item that were found from the tomb.
The real part of a bronze spear used thousands of years ago! This is one of the main national treasure they have here too!

The description for the above spear

A pure gold bowl!

We headed for lunch after visiting the museum, the tour guide brought us to the famous street for snacks called Shou Yi Garden Snack Street. Tried many different dishes such as the prawn dumpling which was really nice!


The place is not really big but the variety of food available here is alot!

Prawn Dumplings!


They use a card system here for paying food

Headed to the Yellow Crane Tower after lunch. It was walking distance from the snack street. This place its 9 storey high! However from the outside it only looks like its 5 storey high. This tower has been destory for The tour guide explained to us about the story behind this tower and we were off for a free & easy around the place.

See how high the tower is!


A picture showing the legend of this tower

The view we had from the top of the tower!

Reflections
While having our lunch today, I actually saw that the guys from other division that was sitting beside us was reserving seats for their friends. But the local people actually just took the seats without even asking as if the seats were not occupied. When the guys actually told them that the seats were reserved, the local people actually ignored him and just continue on with their food. I think that this could be part of their culture here, whereas in Singapore you do not see such scene. Even by just placing a packet of tissue on the table, people will know that the seats are already reserved.