Shi Du, Beijing
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Shi Du, China.
Shi Du, 十渡, as the name suggested, is the tenth valley. There's many other valleys but we heard that tenth is best. And true enough, we had lotsa fun there.
Shi Du is a simple and relaxing place, four hour train ride from BeiJing City. We had a farmstay for 1D2N with the most amazing and friendly people on earth. We stayed at You San Jia Yuan, and everyone there is just simple and welcoming.
The accomodation, though not like any of the 5stars hotels available in Beijing, it is simple, clean and well equipped with hot shower and TV. Most importantly, It only costed like SGD6 for one night for 4 of us. Do your Math and you will realised how cheap it really really is.
Another awesome thing was the food!!! I still remember our first night at Shidu, we ate at the homestyle restaurant owned by You San Uncle, the same person who provided us with the farmstay. The waitress asked: "Do you guys want to eat grilled fish?" And we were like :" Ya, that will be great." And next thing we knew, she brought us out to the pond outside, made us choose one, caught it and killed it right in front of us. It was pretty cool. And the fish tasted amazing.
The next day, we ordered Grilled half Lamb for dinner before heading out for our moring activity. Anyway, we went for whitewater rafting. The rush was super mild but nonetheless, still very fun. Because all of us were well-equipped with our water guns and Alex with his water pail. =) Yup, wewere threnched when we hit the finish line.
Later on, we went mountain climbing. It was tiring and scary at times. The only regret was that we didn't reach the peak. We ran out of time. They have people there to lock the gate to the peak at certain time. =( Anyway, it was still pretty fun.
So we came back and guess what we saw?! A living goat tied to a tree near our restaurant. Sob Sob. Feel kinda bad. We were pretty sure the grilled lamb we are having later on used to be his/her brother or sister or friend. But anyway, the grilled lamb was really nice.=)
So all I want say is that Shidu is an awesome place, so give it a try if you are travelling to China.=)
Check out the link here. It is in Chinese though.