The China Experience

YP and I went for our holiday trip from 4th to 10th Dec 05. This trip was sponsored by SPH, under the 模范华文教师 programme. Of course accompanying family members would have to pay for our own expenses.

What was ^%##!%&* about this trip was that during the pre-trip briefing a week before setting off, the tour agency told the group that temperature over at southern China was going to be relatatively cool, ranging between 5 to 15 degC. Long johns inside and a decent jacket outside would more than do the job of keeping you guys comfortably warm, they said.

Comfortably warm my foot! Temp while we were on 庐山 plunged to sub-zero levels, and we all froze our butts off. Adding salt to the wounds, the hotel floors weren't carpetted. NB! I don't think any of us in the group bathed that nite on the mountains. Most if not all could barely fall asleep at all, despite the two layers of blanket beneath which we coiled ourselves.

Besides the above gripe, everything else was fine and dandy. Scenary was breathtaking. It was a photographer's dreamland. Lots of interesting subjects to frame, shoot and eternalise as megabytes in our digicams. Will post some of these pics up on the blog soon.