Qinghai - Part 2

Xining (西宁) was very very cold right now due to the raining for the past month. In fact I had put on 4 layered of clothes. After breakfast, we headed to Guide (贵德). We scaled to the base of Laji Mountain (拉鸡山). It was snowing up there, with the summit covered in snow. I had finally seen my real snow! Went out to take some photos and felt the snowflakes fell onto my face and melted away. Even used the snow to wash my hands though it left it a little frozen after that. Along the way to Guide (贵德), we came across Yellow River (黄河). We reached Guide (贵德) shortly after. Went to visit Jade Emperor Temple (玉皇阁). Inside it was statues of many taoist deities. Even Yue Fei (岳飞) and Guan Yu (关羽) had theirs there too. Of course, the Emperor of all deities (玉帝) had his there as well. Afterall, the temple was dedicated to him.

 

After finishing the temple, we made our way back to Xining (西宁). Along the way, we pass by Chengnan (成南), a new district that the real estate developer were trying to develop. A lot of residential housing were available and its relatively cheap but many of them were vacant. It was still some distance away from  Xining (西宁). Reminded me when Sillypore Gahmen tried to get people to buy up HDB properties in Sembawang and Sengkang back then.

 

Today is the breaking of their month long fasting of the islamic Hui tribe (回族). Their mosque should be pretty packed with Hui people (回民). Along our way to and fro Guide (贵德), could see quite a few number of people bringing their kids with them to do visiting for their new year. I guess we were a lot physically and mentally tired. So we reached back to our hostel by 1500hrs. Dun feel like walking to the mosque to see the human mass orgy. So took a break, staying inside the hostel, relaxing away by surfing the net and watching The IT Crowd Season 2. Afterall, going to be flying back to Sillypore in another 2 more days, and thinking of the mountain of works waiting back in the office was sending the shiver down my spine. Sigh.

 

After that we had dinner by roaming the food alley (小吃街). Had some BBQ squid and pork ribs, and finally tried the ancient candy (冰糖葫芦). Its actually maltose poured over their particular plum or peach type stuff. Now they actually pour the maltose over fresh fruits or dried fruits. And after dinner, we ended our sixteenth day of no excitement.