chris elaine and i had planned to go to a famous island nearby for a long time and since time was running out we finally went recently, unfortunately chris wasnt available but elaine and i still wanted to go.
First we had to go aoujiang, a nearby town around half an hours drive from lingxi, and then from there take a boat, we stayed a night in aoujiang and ate some tasty beijing duck, the best ive had! Then in the morning went to the ferry port... Only to find it wasnt there! Very recently they had built a new ferry port and it no longer docked in the middle of town but way outside! Damn! We got a motorbike 3 wheeled taxi out to the new port but the boat had randomly left 20minutes early! Damn! So we had missed it! At least now we knew where it went from so that was good!
we got a bus back to where we parked the car and from there we went to get some lunch, after lunch we bought some snacks (everything on the island is expensive) and some water and drove over to by the ferry.
We made sure to arrive with plenty of time to spare and got the tickets before going down to the boat and went to see our transport.
The island we were going to was called nanji island, a chain of islands about 50km off the coast of the chinese mainland, its pretty famous around the wenzhou area but not that famous elsewhere but i still really wanted to go. The boat waiting for us for this 50km journey off shore was a very low slung boat, seating about 100 people and completely enclosed with only some small windows set above seating level. It looked designed for fast river transport not open sea, and these fears where not encouraged when elaine told me what happened last time.
It turned out that a few years ago a whole school went for a teachers outing there and after a few days the principal had to come back early so left with a few teachers in rough seas, and never made it back, the boat capsized and sank and they all drowned! Scary!
The seas today looked very flat and the weather forecast was good so off we went. No matter how good the sea was supposed to be the waves really affected this long thin boat (like a chinese bus with a boat around it) and so it rolled around quite a bit, i was ok but elaine got a little sick.
After a nap on the boat we arrived into a beautiful small island around 10sqkm over 4 islands, we were staying on the largest at 7sqkm.
We paid the entry for the island, the ferry ticket, and then the bus ticket from the port to the hotel, the hotels here are a little expensive, unless you want friday or saturday night, in which case they are very very expensive! We found a room each for 200rmb (20gbp) and although not great, a bit old, not new, sand in a few places, it was the closest place to the ocean! The same room saturday night was at leat 700! This is because thats when most people come and they need to make their money then as it only really gets tourists june to october and even then on weekends. We were there sunday night so that was ok!
We checked in and then went for a swim at the beach less than a hundred meters away for a few hours and before long it was getting dark.
After a change we found a restaurant on the beach to eat at before collecting some shells and then getting an early bed.
First we had to go aoujiang, a nearby town around half an hours drive from lingxi, and then from there take a boat, we stayed a night in aoujiang and ate some tasty beijing duck, the best ive had! Then in the morning went to the ferry port... Only to find it wasnt there! Very recently they had built a new ferry port and it no longer docked in the middle of town but way outside! Damn! We got a motorbike 3 wheeled taxi out to the new port but the boat had randomly left 20minutes early! Damn! So we had missed it! At least now we knew where it went from so that was good!
we got a bus back to where we parked the car and from there we went to get some lunch, after lunch we bought some snacks (everything on the island is expensive) and some water and drove over to by the ferry.
We made sure to arrive with plenty of time to spare and got the tickets before going down to the boat and went to see our transport.
The island we were going to was called nanji island, a chain of islands about 50km off the coast of the chinese mainland, its pretty famous around the wenzhou area but not that famous elsewhere but i still really wanted to go. The boat waiting for us for this 50km journey off shore was a very low slung boat, seating about 100 people and completely enclosed with only some small windows set above seating level. It looked designed for fast river transport not open sea, and these fears where not encouraged when elaine told me what happened last time.
It turned out that a few years ago a whole school went for a teachers outing there and after a few days the principal had to come back early so left with a few teachers in rough seas, and never made it back, the boat capsized and sank and they all drowned! Scary!
The seas today looked very flat and the weather forecast was good so off we went. No matter how good the sea was supposed to be the waves really affected this long thin boat (like a chinese bus with a boat around it) and so it rolled around quite a bit, i was ok but elaine got a little sick.
After a nap on the boat we arrived into a beautiful small island around 10sqkm over 4 islands, we were staying on the largest at 7sqkm.
We paid the entry for the island, the ferry ticket, and then the bus ticket from the port to the hotel, the hotels here are a little expensive, unless you want friday or saturday night, in which case they are very very expensive! We found a room each for 200rmb (20gbp) and although not great, a bit old, not new, sand in a few places, it was the closest place to the ocean! The same room saturday night was at leat 700! This is because thats when most people come and they need to make their money then as it only really gets tourists june to october and even then on weekends. We were there sunday night so that was ok!
We checked in and then went for a swim at the beach less than a hundred meters away for a few hours and before long it was getting dark.
After a change we found a restaurant on the beach to eat at before collecting some shells and then getting an early bed.
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