Entrance to the Wandu Mountain City 丸都山城
The thing with early darkness in the northern hemisphere is that you get disoriented as to the time of the day. Of course, I still have my mobile phone to tell me what time it really was, but the skewed sunrise and sunset is really affecting my body clock. I would tend to sleep early here in the north just because of that. There is that little thing about nothing much happening in Ji’an anyway, I didn’t want to watch television anyway so I might as well actually treat this as a vacation, which it really is. It was a nice thing that I got the entire room all to myself since they gave me a “bargain” for staying two nights here.
Part of the Former City Walls of the Wandu Mountain City 丸都山城
The next day, I got up later than I thought I would and prepared for the day. I would be exploring Ji’an’s famous UNESCO sites here and I wanted to get out early. As I was heading down, I noticed that my tour guide is already at the lobby craning his neck hoping to catch a glimpse of me. Was he thinking that I would run away and get someone else’s service? Can’t blame him though, tourists will start dwindling because of the onset of the winter, that I one CNY 100 he can’t afford to lose. He was thrilled and relieved to see me coming down the hotel. He didn’t know my name and neither did I know his, his only clue would be that I was a foreigner and I would probably be the only one in the hotel at that time.
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