By the way I'm not talking about the Good Food we had coz Kenneth will be posting on that. Right Kenneth? =D
We spend 50% of our time when we're not climbing playing the iPAD!!!
At the airport...
Our room (HK)... small but clean and cheap and got personal toilet =)
Even on the train. But the truth is, it really helped us alot! Saved us from getting lost, finding great food, locating climbing crags and gear shops!! By the way, Angry Birds Rock!! and Kenneth has hidden talent for gaming!! Bert can testify!
We landed in Macao 2am in the moring and when to The Venetian (Casino) to spend the night. Or rather our bags spent the night and we slept wherever we can...
The engineers analyzing the roulette machine to find their sure win numbers! while i slept on the machine... =p
Everything in Macao opens like after 11am, only the Casino's 24hrs... so we died of hunger and boredom outside Coach... Of course we did all the touristy stuff but... you can go see for yourself so no need to show them here.
In Hong Kong we...
visited gun shops...
found that Kenneth and Joshua might be in a relationship...
and had our gear shopping spree!!!
We also found that HH hates "cho tou-fu" ...oops should have left this for ken..
Because it rained for the first couple of days in HK, we decided to hunt for HK bouldering gyms! But for some reason, all HK's bouldering gyms are all hidden in light industrial areas...
We were told to look out for the wooden geko. With the metal door closed, you'll never know that this is a rock gym!!
Slightly larger than our own gym without the enterprise wall. Very springy mattress.
Old school cargo lift, where you got to lift 2 metal doors by hand.
and this gyms about our NUS gym size.
Next up China!
Our sleeper-bus to Yangshuo from Shenzhen.
Yangshuo was really really hot!! About 35 to 36degrees in the afternoon...
Cooling our heads off with water from the well after climbing at Egg Mountain.
Night life in Yangshuo! Lots of pubs and clubs and shops.
KTV in Yangshuo. We have to spend up to 288 yuan on food and drinks and we can sing for as long as we like ... so they sang for 7hrs... i almost died ...
HH pole dancing!!!! NOT.
We also took a bamboo raft down the famous Li Jiang River.
Behind us is the Nine horses painting mountain"... suppose to see 9 horses ... blah..
And here's the famous 20 Yuan scenery.
We spend much of our time over at China Climb when we have nothing to do...
We met Abond (on the right)and Ar-Chen (on the left). Both sponsored climbers with big brands such as Arcteryx, Black diamond, La Sportiva... and both are experienced route bolters with man FAs under their belt. Had great times having long chats with them and found that climbing gods are pretty much like us mortals too.
Bouldering with China Climb guys at night =)
We also met other China Climb folks such as Abond's younger brother, Xiao-Chen (black-T), and Tanxi (white pants)a biker. Very friendly bunch and that would go all out to let you have an enjoyable stay in YS.
Joshua, XinYi and I missed our bus back to Shenzhen after HH and Ken left for Beijing. The bus broke down before it reached Yangshuo. Tanxi and Xiao-Chen wanted us to leave YS with only good memories, so they when out of thieir way to plan a deep-water solo trip by the river just for us =D
(Obscene picute of dragonfly mating on Joshua's swimming trunk has been removed- NC16)
Our sleeper-bus back to Shenzhen from Yangshuo. Imagine four guys staring at you while you try to sleep, lying down at the same level as their socks, smelling a concoction of stinky socks, pee and perspiration. Eeeeeeeeeee... but at least we're lying down... they had to squat for 10hrs.
Alrite I'll stop here. Rock trips are not only about climbing, it's also about having fun meeting ppl and enjoying a different cultural experience of places you would otherwise not visit.
Kenneth please show all the good food / cheap food / wierd food we had =)
