Lunch

We went out today to try and see the very famous Red Beach of Ying Kou. It was kind of frustrating. Terri kept asking people directions and they kept giving us different directions or even claimed that it didn't exist and was in another city nearby. We finally took one last set of directions and headed off to the 'red beach'. We were told it was on the riverbank so we got off at the stop before this huge bridge and started to walk to the river. It ended up being about 2 km and when we got there, there was a patch of beach (sand) about 3 meters wide and nothing that was red. It was bloody hot and such a long walk to see nothing but we weren't trapped inside and we were out with each other so in the end it didn't matter. We got some nice pictures of some goats though.

We decided to jump on a bus back and get off for lunch when we spotted some restaurants. We did just that and ended up eating some really weird green vegetable balls and some weird green coloured beef dumplings. We did get to eat a very nice fish thought so it wasn't completely wasted.

This is a picture of the chef preparing a big vat of beans. They looked much better than the green stuff we'd already tried to eat.

For dinner, we just jumped into a tuktuk and asked the guy to take us to a place where we could eat chuanr (food on sticks) and have beer outside. The meal wasn't too bad but down there, they put sugar on all the chuanr so everything was very sweet.

Back to Shenyang tomorrow. T has to work on the weekend.