Relax National Days

It's fine in National Day. A team which drive to Dongjinag Lake in Hunan province is consist of three families include seven peoples & five kids.

There were too many accidents in high-speed way, the most badly accident we passed was seven cars bump one by one. So we costed all day on the way. The last mountain-way is only 20 kms, maybe we were so hungry that everybody felt the wandering & winding mountain-way is a too long distance. When we arrived the destination where is a farmhouse named Linhuxuan near the Dongjiang lake, it was already 9:00 p.m.

The farmer we contact before had prepared the supper for us. All of us seemed enjoy the taste food. Everyone cost RMB 60 yuan to stay a day, include three dinners.

The master is a fifty-years-old man. There are eight peoples in his family, his mother, wife, daughter and son-in-law, son and his wife, and a little baby.

This farmyard is built on the lakefront, a wooden kiosk repose nearby the lake, you can view all lake in it. There's a clean garden with many flowers and orange trees. It's a nice place to live in.

We had a good rest in all night. The next day was cloudy. After breakfast, we walked to a market which built on the peninsula in lake.

The lake surrounded by mountains. I love climbing very much, so I want to go there with my family, but two sons said they are too tired to go. Karmo took them back to farmyard, I have to go alone. On the midway, I lost the way by myself. Four grandma were coming when I hesitant if go on. Asked the way to them, they said they go back home from market, their home is behind this mountain. I felt safe and followed with them. They told me they are the original liver under the mountain twenty yeas ago, because building the Dongjiang reservoir, they had to move house on the mountain. They lived on by sale orange, pear & chestnut.

At a cross, they went back home on a way, I climb on another way. There are a lot of pine trees on the mountain, colophony smell special taste. Sun shined the area, from pine tree's space, I can see the shinning water on the lake under the mountains. Nobody except i was climbing, I can heard my breath. Although I was alone, but not lonely, bugs singing in the thicket, flying butterfly followed with me, the trees were singing in wind too. All the trouble were forgotten, only I spoke with nature. I felt very relax & comfortable.

At last I got to top, there's a TV tower on the top. Nobody was on it, only wind whistled. I got down quickly and came back to the farmhouse directly.

After lunch, Karmo & Echoflying enjoied their rowboat on lake, we went to catch crab by a wood-boat that the farmer had contact for us. The owner drove his boat to the end of reservoir, he leaded us on the land. There's a stream flowing to lake. The boatmaster helped us to find crab under stone in stream, our kids enjoyed to play on sands. After a long time, the captain caught only one little crab. We returned to the farmhouse after a moment.

The kids pillowed fight in the garden. I had to took them to climb a little mountain behind the house. There're several family on the hill, and too much orange trees. They lived by sale the fruits.

It became dark on the lake, but Echoflying and Helen hadn't come back yet, they lost their way in black. It's time for supper when they try their best to row back.

In the third day, we leaved away to Bazhai Village in Shaoguan. On the way, Karmo noticed a billboard about a hot spring which is in the Reshui town, then we drove to there. The view on the way is very beautiful. There are dense forest covered the mountains, the trees grown luxuriantly & richly. It still keeps original nature status.

It is about 30 km from billboard to town. On this way, we looked another board which wroten "the Number 1 of drift by hot water in south of China". I was surprised by this slogan, I thought maybe the water in river is hot. because I never heard of this place.

Arrived in the town, I just knew the "Hot Water" is the name of this town, not drift in the hot water. We found a cheap & quiet hotel to stay. There is a standard swimming pool in the hotel, the water in pool is following from a hot spring. The temperature of water is above 40C, so everyone can not stay in a long time.

On the next morning, after breakfast, we walked to visit an old tower where is on the top of a hill near the hotel. On the country way, we found a more ancient stone bridge named immortal bridge built in Ming Dynasty. There's a big stone that carved an article on it to tell us a story about building the bridge. Many more rich plant had covered the bridge, if you aren't near it, it is difficult to notice.

Along the river, there's a little road spread to far, unknown flowers & all kinds of plant were swinning in the wind.

In a little village, kids were pleasured to see the kinds of vegetables. Passing over a little wooden bridge, we followed the way to a valley that mountains surround. How nice a place is! There's a village under the mountains, several oxes were eating in the field. rice field is flat, golden, peaceful & silent, just like the Peach Park described by Taoyuanming. It's really an unforgettable place. Of course the beautiful views were collected into the camera of visitors.

We leaved Reshui town to Bazhai. Bazhai was a bandit's den before liberation. It was built on the top of a giant rock like a mountain. There's no way in the vertical rock, only some carved holes in it. We were afraid to climb on it.

Although we did not climb, I was very glad to meet Aliang & Lingdan's family. The children played game together on the filed, they looked very happy & rejoice.

We had our supper in a peasant family, then we drove to a hotel in town.

The last day was a very relax day for us. In the countryside near the Bazhai, some of us rowed boats on a river, mothers and their kids walked in the field along the river. A girl named Qingcao prepaired the bamboo rice for us.

Because I would be on duty next day, so my family went back alone after lunch, the others went on their trips.