The ride is 2 hours now Hi W,
Now there is a second route from Xiamen to Yong Chun, by passing Chuanchao ( Quanzhou), this route takes 2 hours by bus or van through Lam Muar and Ann Huai, although certain stretch of the road is still under repair. The scenery is still as beautiful as you have described. It feels wonderful to go back to Yong Chun and speak to the locals our dialect. I feel at home.
Wow! Great Trip! Wow! Winnie, I love ur travel journal on ur trip back to China! It's very personal and thoughtful (esp considering the fact that u're writing this 8 yrs past the actual visit). It's a visit I wld love to have made myself only our grandma's not here anymore.
I love her gentle ways and still miss her very much. (I hope Chiara will grow up to be as kind and gentle as ah ma)
N the bit abt her meeting with her centenarian aunt! Incredible. Pp just don't live to this ripe old age even with all the advance medical interventions in our modern day city.
I dun know how u survive the syringe. I wld have fainted. :)
That's one trip/ "immersion experience" u can never get even if u were to travel alone or with a tour gp.
K S Tan
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The ride is 2 hours now
Hi W, Now there is a second route from Xiamen to Yong Chun, by passing Chuanchao ( Quanzhou), this route takes 2 hours by bus or van through Lam Muar and Ann Huai, although certain stretch of the road is still under repair. The scenery is still as beautiful as you have described. It feels wonderful to go back to Yong Chun and speak to the locals our dialect. I feel at home.