The best little restaurant in Qianliang!
We left their restaurant knowing that there were at least 2 hotels in that village. The one that we were able to find at first denied being a hotel and then admitted to being a hotel but refused to rent us a room. I was using Google translate to help us communicate.”This is a hotel?” I asked. TThe woman answered in Mandarin, “yes”. “You have rooms?” Yes. “We want 1 room”. “No”. “No room for us?” I asked confused and then the woman answered in English “YES”.
We walked another 5 miles to the next village that actually had a hotel, that admitted to being a hotel, quoted us a price of 70 kuai in the parking lot but then only charged us 50 kuai ($8) once we got in the room AND they let us use their washing machine!
Maybe tomorrow will be our short day because I have 3 angry blisters. I’m including a pic so consider yourself warned.
This photo doesn’t do it justice.
Ouch! Mom and I were reading your blog and the pic made us both hiss and suck into our teeth!
Wonder what the thought is with locals having pity on ya.?
What’re the bathrooms like?, the kitchens? The weather?
There are public bathrooms roadside frequently but I have only had to use them twicE. They are pit toilets and never very deep or just a very shallow trough. We stayed at a hotel last night that had a bathroom unside it that cost 50 kuai ($8). The smell in the bathroom was so bad I almost vomited several different times. I drink a ton of water during the day but still only have to pee twice a day. Once in the morning and once
At night. It’s in the upper 80s here and we put our umbrellas up every morning at about 10:00. We get lots of big grins and smiles and thumbs up and lots of stares and double takes too. I got a double take from a dog yesterday.