Day 23 - "The Beautiful Zhuhai"

Day 23 – “The Beautiful Zhuhai”

So the only reason Zhuhai was in our itinerary of cities was because we had a connection through Marlie’s mother. One of her students is Chinese, and we were invited to meet his parents in Zhuhai. So Marlie got ahold of Dr Ying and her husband. Dr Ying was not what were expecting. She was much older than we thought, for one, and she was painfully Chinese. The day consisted of us being led around like children. Or rather, grandchildren. It wasn’t… awful, but it was a little stifling.

We met them in a KFC in the downtown area, and once we met Dr Ying and her almost entirely silent husband (most likely because he didn’t know any English) she didn’t stop talking. Her husband would really only ever respond by taking sips out of his water bottle that he’d fashioned a straw through the cap.

She went on about the “Beautiful Zhuhai” and how we were lucky to see it. None of us could agree with that statement. There wasn’t much of interest in Zhuhai, and proof of that I think was the lack of hostels. Clearly it isn’t a place that is popular to visit.

But we saw the famed Lady of Zhuhai statue, which, I suppose, was nice, but not worth the visit. Dr Ying took far more photos than we did. We also visited some strange area with an island in the middle of a huge lake, but we only walked across the bridge and back before going to dinner. The dinner was a mess of a place. It was hot pot and a buffet at the same time, which is way too much “do it yourself” service than I think is necessary. There were lots and lots of people and noise and food and smoke. A little overwhelming. We were able to shake her after dinner, but only after riding the bus with us back to our hotel (at least 15-20 minutes out of the way for her).

We were pretty tired, even though we really hadn’t done much that day. We prepared that night for our final destination, Guangzhou.

Here’s a picture of the infamous Dr Ying and us with the Lady of Zhuhai in the background.