Nanjing-Wuxi: Day 4

The following morning, we were taken to the see the "Great Wall of Nanjing" called the "Gu Chen Chiang" that was built during the Ming Dynasty. The beauty about this wall is that it is built next to a river / sea (can't remember). Thus from the military defence point of view, it is strategically located. Also, each piece of brick has the supplier's details. Apparently, if the bricks are damaged for whatever reasons, the person who's name is on the brick will be beheaded. And therefore the wall was built on excellent QC standard.

It was exceptionally cold and chilly that morning. The photos seemed rather blur but in actual fact, it was foggy with low visibility.

Then we were taken to a crystal shop which was located within the Great Wall. Here, they specializes in paintings in the crystal sphere. Check out this gigantic crystal ball:

I bought one too... No, not the bigass one. A medium sized one that was drawn by this 'sifu' here. He even penned my name in the orb.

Can't remember his name, but he presented a crystal ball with our ex-PM's portrait drawn with Chinese brush and ink... and donated an expensive piece to the China government for the restoration of the Great Wall of Nanjing. Here's one of his nicest piece within the exhibition hall (in our opinion):

Next stop was to a Jade shop... Nothing much here cos I don't really fancy jade (like so auntie like that)... but my bro and I, we spotted this 'cup'.

In the olden days, there were no football or soccer matches (not until much later), and therefore, the competition is really between crickets (you know... a kind of insect?). So whoever who wins the competition (i.e. the one with the strongest cricket) wins this lizard 'trophy'... 'tah dah'... hehehe... just kidding...

From there, we took the bus to Wuxi... which took us approximately 3 hours. Halfway thru, we needed to pee... and guess what we saw at the mart next to the loo? Rabbit and dog's meat nicely packaged!

First stop at Wuxi... the CCTV's "Movie Land of the 3 Kingdom" (3 Guo Chen). The entire area was super huge and we were ushered to this place to view the 'battle' between Zhuge-liang, Guan Yu, Zhang-fei and Lu Bu, Cao-cao. It was a pretty exciting to watch the 'battle' and these people are really exceptional horse riders!

Then we went for a boat ride across this lake that was often featured in CCTV's drama.

The boat smelt one kind and has no life jacket what-so-ever... kinda scary considering that it's winter. If anything were to happen, we'll most likely freeze to death than drown to death.

The final place was some emperor's bedroom which was also featured in some of the CCTV's drama. The place where the emperor had ahem sex on his wedding night.

That night we had 'Wuxi Pai Ku' for dinner. Cos Wuxi is famous for it's 'pai ku' - "Wuxi kern Gu Tou"... remember? Was it nice? Mmm... I thought it was very nice... :)

Wuxi is quite a small place so that night, we didn't go anywhere but stayed in our hotel rooms and ate their "Fang Bian Mian". And oh, really lor, their instant noodles hor... there's plenty of varieties to choose from. Even the noodles type... 'wantan' mee type, vermicelli and normal maggie mee type. Yum yummm... particularly this brand called "Kang Si Fu".