The evening before, uncle told us to get ready and down for breakfast by 730am and we would be heading out to Meizhou. He told us to bring jackets as the weather would be cold.
We arrived at the jetty and it was crowded. The locals... were pushing and jumping queues and were yelling and shouting at the staff who were not handling the sale of tickets fast enough for them to get a place onboard the ferry.
One local aunty behind me was nagging at us to be quick and that the ferry was going to leave the jetty soon. I was fed up and told her if she cannot wait, then please go join other queues. That shut her mouth up.
SWK - this fellow asked RMB20 from us when R was done taking pics with him. He wanted to continue but i told him it was enough.
Ma Zhu Temple @ Meizhou.
We went to this village not far from our hotel. This village was the very hometown of hubby's grandfather where he stayed when he was young, followed by hubby's father.
Some houses that you have seen in the pic seems to be more well off than the rest. This is because the villagers worked outside of their province/city and when they earn their salary, they remit the money back to the hometown so that the family members can have a better life. The hard earned money was saved in order to built a better roof over their heads.
Lionel n Rachel standing right in front of the very house that their great grandpa and grandpa once lived.
The house was in ruins and unsafe to walked further in, other than the stove area and the mini courtyard.
Daddy trying to walked in between the houses and to see if the place was accessible through the backdoors. Negative!
Many of the neighbours saw us and wandered out to say hello and even offered us to have a sit in their houses and join them for dinner. We rejected politely as we have a dinner to attend to.
For those who do not understand, will hanyu pinyin helped?
Anxi " Wu Feng Yan"
Chong Jian Luo Cheng Qing Dian Huan Ying Wan Yan
Hou An Xie Shi Jia Miao Lian Yi Hui
We were invited to attend the dinner at a 5 star hotel in Anxi.
The 12 course dinner, though not all were to my liking. :)
Its almost 11pm and we were off to bed. In another 3 hours, we would be driven up the mountains for the ceremony.
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