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HwangGouSu [Yellow_Fruite_Tree ]
Waterfall
(1st Sep)
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What's up today? Our family is going to the must-see of GuiZhou - the
HwangGouSu Waterfall. It's said that if you don't see
HwangGuoSu, you haven't been to GuiZhou. O .. K .. 
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That fuzzy
piece of cloud n the middle of the blue sky is in fact a blot of
dirt on my camera's lens. Sorry. 
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See, there are caves.
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GuiZhou is of ??? landscape. What ??? is, I don't know in English
(and would someone please tell me). It's the landscape with limestone,
stalactite, stalagmite, caves, etc. There are plenty of examples along the way.. |
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The city which HwangGouSu belongs to. Name forgotten.  |
First sight of HwangGuoSu. Nice, nut not stunned.
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Hope they are not washing their feet down there.
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We are going clock-wise around the waterfall.
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Rainbows, 2 of them!!!!
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Behind the waterfall, there is a cave with dripping water.
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Another rainbow.
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After 30 min. of walking, we finally get to the trademark angle of
HwangGuoSu. Yeah!
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Although we are sight-seeing today, we are by no means free souls. We
have to make it back to GuiYang for an official dinner. Sigh. 
Counting the 5 hour round trip ride between GuiYang and HwangGuoSu,
we don't have much time. So with limited time left, we go to a national level scenic site
(so as HwangGuoSu) nearby, the Dragon Palace.
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Chinese like to
eat flower and melon seeds. Sort of like eating peanuts. Sunflower
seed is a yummy kind of seed.
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Diapers are not
an option for rural areas. So "open pants" is still a
fashion for kids.
I hope mom won't tell me one day that I wore
one of these when I was a kid and she got PICs to prove. 
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The Dragon Palace
is a limestone cave that you have to tour by boat.
The review is,
the cave looks good from far, but it's far from good looking.
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It only takes
20 min. to finish the tour in this dried-up cave. The tour guide
speaks emotionlessly like a battery-low recorder. And as cool as
other bad caves I have seen, there is enough cement on the cave
surface to build another Great Wall. Enough. 
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I have no idea why the Dragon Palace was named a national level
scenic site. Could be ill management of the cave in recent years or it could be
corruption in the rating committee. Whatever it is, the tourists who come a long way to see
the cave are the losers.
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Ok cute kid, you don't like me. Bye bye.
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This is an
average scene on the road from GuiYang to HwangGuoSu.
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Not a fun day, not at all. |
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Dinner is so "political" that I dare not take PICs on the
table. They treat us with lots of seafood which doesn't come by easy
in mountainous GuiZhou. However, our frequent exposure to seafood and
the solid political air make all food tasteless.
But the liquor is good.
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 Liquor
is a culture in GuiZhou. The national liquor of China, MaoTai, is
brewed in the little county of MaoTai of GuiZhou.
This
national liquor is not an empty honor. I am not a veteran drinker
but I can taste the smoothness of the liquor as it runs down the
throat. Despite it's 50+% alcohol content, it doesn't burn at
all.
Even better,
I don't get a headache when I get drunk with MaoTai. I sort of feel
like I am floating in a sea of cotton, everything is soft and mellow
while I haven't lost control of my conscious mind. It's that the
most sought-after state of getting drunk?
I have heard
of MaoTai when I was a kid but haven't gotten much chance to try it.
Why? There are too many counterfeits on the market that most people
rather give up on it. In GuiZhou, and at an official dinner, the
liquor is got to be genuine. |
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 After
dinner, we take grandpa for a walk in the nearby park.
People are
having fun dancing in fountains.
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Fair sight-seeing, tiring commute and boring dinner. Not a fun day, not at all.
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