Didnt get up till 1:00pm because of last nights antics. Got a leeetle bit drunk!! Played fuuzball with a chinese girls and got battered of her.
Heather went out early in the morning with Sophie. John and Rachel haggling in the street markets.
The town really is beautiful, theres loads and loads and loads of little tiny winding streets and feels a little bit like a mediteranian town atmosphere.
Met up with Heather and Sophie and I had breakfast of fried rice and beef. Very Nice.
Saw this fella sitting on a bench dressed in black traditional chinese atire with a long thin mustache like you see in them Kung Fu films. In front of him he had a long bamboo cane with two Cormarants sitting on each end.
Heather had read that they use Cormarants to catch fish.
They train them from birth to fish for them. They put these rings round their necks so that they cant swollow the fish. Then when the Chinese fisherman calls them back to the boat (which is litterally a few long banboo canes lashed together) they pull the fish out of their mouths. Apparently they let them eat the seventh fish otherwise the birds wouldnt work for them!
Strange - in England fishermen are allowed to kill Cormarants as the destroy fish stock.
Walked around for hours round the little streets looking at all the wares on offer. Heather got this silk double sided dressing gown.
Then we walked along the riverbank and saw the cormarant fishermen actually using the birds to fish - it was mint!
The scenery here is breathtaking - never seen a landscape like it in my whole life. Keep thinking its not real or I'm in The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings or something.
John, Rachel, Clare, Russ, Sophie, Heather and me went for food in a resaurant full of Chinese people eating (good sign) half way through the meal the place started stinking of sewers, so we ate up quickly and left.
Also they had Dog on the menu.
Saw a mother holding her baby, squatting so that baby could empty his bowels on the street - nice!!
Fawlty Tower's has a laundry service - so gonna ask Manuel to wash me dudds for me tomorrow.
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