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FuJian
01/04/05
Didn't I say Guangdong Province not my cup of tea! so... I came into Fujian. still looking for the walled building in this southern region . here at least they gave an official name The Earth Building. seem like tourist activities has been speeded up lately here as there are many signs, English and Chinese advertising about the earth building. Shuyang is a small town where I can reach most of the remarkable buildings. Shuyang has a market in every 5 days as it was today , here had no minority people. but at least it lift up the spirit of the town under the sour misty sky. I was surrounded by motor drivers once I got off the bus. "want to see earth buildings"?... "this way"... "that way"... I was back in India!!?! they won't leave me alone no matter how I cut them out with a strong NO! one just kept following me up into the guesthouse where I check in, came into my room told me how many Cantonese had used his service as a driver, how he would offer me best price for my trip. ok ok... I know life is hard, but will
you give me a break." see you later"! My news friend Mr Hsu is kind of shadow man, I saw him wherever I go, he was there when I ate my noodles, he was there when I choosing banana... I told him I prefer to walk. he finally wrote out his mobile number to me said call him if I need a drivers. walk the 6km to the nearby village to see couple of buildings. some round and some rectangular, a pleasant walk after the winding bus ride even it dose rain once in a while. not much interesting in the inner part of the building, I more enjoy climbing up the nearby hill for a bird-eye view. beside... I can save up some money from the entrance fee! after more than 13km and 2 up hill climbing, dead tire I was. good sleep tonight I guess!
02/04/05
went to another earth building by motorbike, why? of course it was 13km away. but it was our Mr Hsu who show up again when I ate my noodle this morning. "special price for you, too far to walk there my friend". "how much? "I asked. "30"..."20"...we agreed on the
number"15". TienLouGau is composed by 5 buildings, 1 square, 1 ellipses and 3 in round shape, which set in a valley like a plum blossom and the best view only can be seen from a view platform which you need to pay 20 to get in. I only saw the best view from a postcard! on our way there Mr Hsu bombard me with thing I should know and watch out, how far it would be for me to walk from this to that, which man in which village I need to avoid... but the most important is to call him whenever I need a ride home later! I paid him 20 because I also knew he had no changes! as you all knew I would not willing to parted with 20 kuai so I can not go inside the building. but guess there wasn't much differences from other building I had visit. so I spent my time looking for another view point in the area. but no, seem like they had done their research, I can not find a view could compared with the postcard... haha...! who care! the sun came up which I hadn't seen for a whole
week. spirit was high and I decided to walk the 14km back as the trip was rather nice through tea plantation and terrace fields. and it was mostly.... down hill!
03/04/05
enough is enough, no more earth building. I left for PengKou, a small round junction town 160km west from Shuyang. here I will go visit an old preserved village tomorrow. and this afternoon I went to visited an old bridge some 5km from PengKou, a nice decorated wooden bridge with 3 pinnacles towers, added with 2 pagoda style temples on the other side of the river, right at the entrance of the old village. surrounded by paddy fields and villgers are busy in their business, a man feet deep in mud commanding a huge buffalo, a woman sprinkling fertilizer into the vegetation, an old woman carried 2 baskets which tilting by a bamboo rod. a dog wandering aimlessly cross the bridge. what a peaceful sight to look at.
04/04/05
Peitien ancient village is about 15km from PengKou, mini bus run between quite often. first I thought it was only get to ShunHe and from where I would switch to motorbike or walk for the last
3km, but the car went also into the village perhaps there was other passagers who live in Peitien. that landed me inside without paid the 20 entrance fee! the building style of the whole village are from Ming-Ching dynasty. the oldest could date back 400 years. said most houses could survive the culture revolution was a miracle. here you can get the authentic feeling of the old time even though preservation work had been done. there was no souvenirs shop, but couple of small eating places could be seen. I saw a sign for guesthouse so I walk in see if they do food as well. they ask me to eat with them as they are preparing lunch for the family. soon all the labour came back from the field. plates and dishes laid full on round table, bamboo shoot, sweet bean, glass noodle, a bowl of peanuts, 2 different plate of pork fat meat but which was so tasty, a plate full of kidney and intestines and a plate of green vegi. but to start with they serve me a bowl of sweet wine soup which boiled with sticky rice wine. it got me more hungry as I hadn't
ate anything this morning. also it got me a little drunk as well. lunch finish fast as I could see we are all starved. after the customary tea drinking they all heading back to the field, and I wandering back into the small street again. I read from the old guide book that there wasn't any modern building in the village, but now there was couple of wall tile house at the edge of the village, still... there wasn't many, and hope it could stay like this for awhile!
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