Traveling the World

I’ve decided to continue writing photo posts, even if it means having to paste the Picasa URL to a friend and have them get my the picture’s URL so I can actually write about it. It’s a lot of work and quite annoying, but worth it to keep you guys happy and content with new things to read about! If you weren’t aware, I just wrote a new personal blog post which can be seen here.

This picture shows you just a single area of where boats are docked and waiting for tourists and even locals to board! As I mentioned in a previous post, there are only a few places within the town to cross the river, and so boats are the most common way of crossing. I paid 20rmb ($3.20) for a private ride that lasted around 45minutes, and was quite worth the trip.

The boat ride experience you have depends on where you pick up the boat! I saw some people at the very north end of the town going downstream, and I saw people in the south end going upstream! Each boat will have custom-tailored their experience based on the previous trips they’ve made, like the one I went on had a special stop on the other side of the river at a rice winery that was amazing.

Another option we had was to pay a bit extra and continue going down the river and further away from the town. They even had markers out on either side of the river to show you just how much further you’d be going if you paid that extra amount, something which helped me decide it’d be a huge waste of time, not to mention the poor bugger was already tired and we hadn’t gone back upstream yet!