2015 China

17 March, Yushan
Pengfa Hotel 100CNY

We had planned to visit a nearby national park today, but given our exhausting day yesterday we instead slept long and late and lazed away the remaining hours, booking bus tickets to Wuyuan, our next destination, and planning which routes to walk in the park tomorrow. With no English spoken in town, both these exercises took longer than they would under normal circumstances. The Pengfa is our cheapest hotel in China so far, its chilling showers bearing testament to its price tag (still twice that of a decent hotel in Vietnam). The shower head was separated from the shower hose (Charl managed to reunite them), the loo seat was standing next to the loo, the basin tap was wobbly in its housing, and the shelf under the mirror hung at a 30 degree angle. There is a strange phenomenon in Yushan. All the floors are wet and remain wet all day. A heavy condensation, we assume, with bad ventilation adding insult to injury. But we lunched and dined well, and rested.