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Weekend Trip to Xiamen
Tuesday, January 4, 2005-7:12 PM
Xiamen, located in Fujian province, can best be described as "The Wisconsin Dells of the East" due to the abundance of boat rides, scenic rocks, and souvenir shops. That stuff I didn't mind.
A couple things I did mind were the overly aggresive/dishonest tactics to sell you stuff you didn't want or to sell you more of something than you did want, and the strand of hair we found in our food.
We got a discount sleeper bus on the way back. That didn't make me feel better. The bus driver was smoking under the no smoking sign. The bus stopped frequently including stops for maintenance.
To give you an idea of the atmosphere on the bus, the driver at one point stopped driving after one of the passengers informed him that he left the door open.
Here is a short (90 second) video from Xiamen called Sunlight Rock and the Lost City of Xiamen.
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