Jinggang Shan

I realised I never wrote about my other trip during the sports meeting...

Anyway, Rick and I went off to a place called 'Jinggang Shan' ('shan' meaning 'mountain' in Chinese). It was lovely. A bit touristy, but only Chinese tourists there - we didn't see a foreigner the whole town. The air was clean, there was very little litter (unusual for China!) and there were lots and lots of mountains. Yippee!!!!

We had an interesting drive, going through some tiny villages in the countryside, along some small and not always in very good condition roads. At one point, along a really muddy, potholed road we were passed by a man on a motorbike with a side-board lashed to the back, sticking out a good metre on either side. We barely had time to stop laughing and marvelling at the amazing things people carry on the back of their motorbikes, when another one drove past. This time the man had a set of large metal driveway gates, held on by he was friend who was also on the back!!! Crazy. Oh, and the other day there was a gutted pig carcass flapping around on the back of someone's bike. Yum.