Day 2 : Yiyang

After lunch, we drove through the countryside to go to Yiyang. Yiyang is also known as Silver City. Not sure why, though.

We were brought to the waterfront where there was a statue of Guan Gong, a prominent figure of the Three Kingdoms era. It was said that Yiyang was a site for an event during that era ... I did not quite know the details, as I'd not read the book nor watched any films based on that.

When we reached the site, there was no one there. It was just too hot and it would be just mad to be strolling about in the burning weather.  I too could not concentrate as I was running to find shade ... lol ...

 The statue

 A nice place to stroll ..... only if it's not so sunny ....

We stayed but for a while ... and then ran back to the van. We checked into our hotel after that .... and hid in the air-conditioned room till the sun set. We were staying at Yincheng Huatian Hotel <银城华天> here at Yiyang. It's a four-star hotel .... and the room was quite old, in fact. It's sufficient enough that it's clean, I suppose.

The room

Another angle of the room .... 

After dinner, we decided to head out. We stepped out of the hotel, and were taken aback by the heat. There was no sun, but it was still hot and humid. Like a sauna, still.

But still, we decided to stroll along the shopping avenue, located right in front of the hotel. On the left and right of the avenue were shops selling mostly clothes and shoes and accessories.

The street .... 歩行街

We walked till the end of the street, browsing in and out of shops when we saw a lot of people heading towards the left and up a slope. Some were on motorbikes ... some were on foot, and they were dressed for swimming! Was there a pool there, we wondered. So we followed suit as we thought we would go watch people swim ..... 

A popular summar activity 

It was not a pool or a pond. In fact, people were swimming in the river, the Zi River 资江 . Since it was hot, it was a great idea to cool off at the river. People of all ages were seen to be soaking or swimming in the river. It looked really fun! 

That night, we also visited a supermarket, just next to our hotel. It was a reasonably large supermarket. All product labels were in Chinese ..... I wanted to buy a bottle of shower gel .... but could hardly be sure that I was buying the correct thing. Now I know what it feels like to be illiterate!