Back in Chengdu
Trip Start
Jul 21, 2008
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Trip End
Ongoing
Chengdu,
Sichuan,
China
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
After walking all the way down the mountain merlin had very sore leg muscles,and could not wait to get back to chengdu to have a 90 min foot and body massage the next day. (to be continued)
We had a pile of smelly clothes that needed to be washed and when they were done we hung them up, just as we finished hanging them up a lady said that it would be a good idea if we moved them because it was going to rain. ( slight understatment). We could hear the rumble of thunder a long way away and it eventually got closer then we had lightening followed by rain.
Ok so this is the bit where it will not at all sound possible, it started to thunder and lightning at about 10pm then it went on all night long non stop right through until after 1oclock yep thats 15hours of non stop thunder and lightening, it was amazing, the thunder was so loud it really hurt your ears,merlin woke up to the sound of "drip drip drip" and instantly knew what it was, yep our room had sprung a leak and it wasnt long before we had a puddle in our room, so with a quick shift around of bagage everything was off the floor safe and dry
Tattoo
. While Merlin was awake he decided to go to the bathroom which was across the hallway, he opened the door in to the corridor and stepped into a 3inch deep puddle "aaaahhhh thats why there is a step in front of our room".Later on after we had mopped up and had breakfast merlin went off for his massage with the Israeli girl called "einav" who he walked down the mountain with. The masuse was supposed to repair our sore muscles.... but instead it hurt like hell,at one point Einav shouted "oh you f@*#ing b@#ch aaawww". So we then hobbled back to the hostel in more pain than what we started with! Merlin had the lady scratch his back during the massage with some sort of instrument this was called "scraping". He asked Helen to look at his back a few hours later....oh my god!!! It looked like that monkey on mount Emei had got hold of him and ripped his skin to pieces!! Check out the photos of his back!
