One week ago on Monday April the 2nd, whole China started 3 days celebration of Qingming Festival (also known as Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day). On this occasion we decided to make a day trip to Qingyuan 清远 in Guangdong province to see ancient Buddhist temples Feilai 飞来 and Feixia 飞峡.
Qingyuan is located 70 km from Guangzhou, and accordingly around 200 km from Shenzhen. In order to escape rush for the local transport, it was decided to take the most expensive and the fastest - high speed rail.
We took one at 7.10 am and for 80￥in 1h20min and we were at Guangzhou East railway station. It cost us another 30 minutes by taxi to get to the South railway st., where we were supposed to transfer to another high speed to get to Qingyuan in 23 minutes. But there was a big fuckup waiting for us at the station. All the tickets for trains were sold out, since the final destination - Wunhan in Hubei province is the motherland for the vast majority of Guangdong province inhabitants.
The only possible way left was to take 2,5 hour bus to the destination... And we did. Tough time on the bus, instead of super-short ride at 300 km/h, but at last we arrived.
We had to hire a boat on the pier, which would take us to the temples. Soon we did so. Got a boat for 350￥+ 15 ￥/person for cooking some seafood and fish for us, which we bought at the neighbor boat - kind of floating market. And the journey along Beijiang river began.
