Highways in China

I will let the pictures do the talking.

The highways are like PLUS back home, only they drive on the right side of the dual carriageway. The fast lane for overtaking is the left lane. The exits are not as prominent as PLUS. Especially at night, a not-so-familiar driver may miss it because it is not brightly lit.

One pic shows some work being carried out. No, they are not extending another lane like the Penang Bridge here. In fact they are repairing the bridge after it was hit and damaged by a barge. Quite a major job as you can see.

Day 2 _ Tu'tu' ride to visit Kungfu masters

After yu char kwai + tauchui breakfast , we went to the bus station to take a bus to Fo Shan, the birthplace of great kungfu sifus; Master Ip Man ( sifu of the late and great Bruce Lee) and Master Wong Fei Hung. The journey took about 2 hours through Highways. I didn't realise that my destination was actually quite near to Guangzhou already.

Getting down from the express bus, I hopped onto a tu'tu' ( motorised tricycle like the one in Hatyai). That was really a bone shaker. My hands were shaking so badly that I had a hard time focusing my camera . The machine was struggling to climb the sloping bridge, carrying the fat lady driver and 2 passengers.

The place is Chu Miao ( literally means the granddaddy of all temples). It is a very old temple with heritage status. In fact it is in the midst of a grand scale restoration, costing millions of yuans. It houses two museums, one for Ip Man, while the other is for Wong Fei Hung.

I just realised that Master Wong's real name has the first 2 mandarin characters identical to my father's name. Only the 3rd character is different. What a discovery!!!

The display shows all the Hong Kong actors that had acted as Wong Fei Hung in hundreds of movies , spanning many decades

There is daily kungfu demo and lion dance, but we missed the chance because we arrived late.

Lunch was some local flavour noodles. The bitter pill to swallow was that the noodles was served in plastic bags placed in the bowl. This is the common thing done here.

Yuck, so environmental unfriendly and unhealthy. Maybe they wanna save the dish washing detergent. No need to cuci pinggan ma!