Rongjiang
Trip Start
Nov 01, 2005
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Trip End
Nov 01, 2006
Rongjiang
After two nights in Xijiang my stomach wasn't feeling too well.
The toilet consisted of a shallow whole which didn't go anywhere, the contents must have been shoveled over to the pigs next door.
So it was time to move on, a bus to Leishan where a less than helpful bus station simply stated that they didn't have a bus to the next town. After standing in their office for a good while they got a taxi to bring me to the corner where you can get the bus. Got a bus to Rongjiang a reasonably large sized chinese town. Here I realised that the atms weren't going to work, 35 euro for a week and hundreds of kilometers of bus journeys, you wouldn't dream of trying it at home but in this part of china, well it should be ok. I tried to get a place to stay for the night but the cheap places kept on turning me away because I was a forigner, finally one of them relented, all around here you get loads of "hellooooo"s and exclamations of "lawei" or forigner.
After two nights in Xijiang my stomach wasn't feeling too well.
The toilet consisted of a shallow whole which didn't go anywhere, the contents must have been shoveled over to the pigs next door.
So it was time to move on, a bus to Leishan where a less than helpful bus station simply stated that they didn't have a bus to the next town. After standing in their office for a good while they got a taxi to bring me to the corner where you can get the bus. Got a bus to Rongjiang a reasonably large sized chinese town. Here I realised that the atms weren't going to work, 35 euro for a week and hundreds of kilometers of bus journeys, you wouldn't dream of trying it at home but in this part of china, well it should be ok. I tried to get a place to stay for the night but the cheap places kept on turning me away because I was a forigner, finally one of them relented, all around here you get loads of "hellooooo"s and exclamations of "lawei" or forigner.

