Travel to "Teochew Land", Shantou(汕头), China Part 3

While travelling in China, sometimes it is inevitable that your tour guide will bring you to tea appreciation sessions and usually,at these places,the prices are about 5 times that of what a local would pay. Even at 5 times more, it is not that expensive at all..if you do not have much time to shop around comparing prices of tea,you can buy a bit here and there to try at these tea sessions.



The difference I notice here in Shantou as compared to the Northern parts of China lays in that they don't really use teapots here, but just a larger tea cup to hold the tea leaves and distributing the tea into smaller cups. I have since mastered the art of using the big tea cup from this trip.

They have such big containers for tea leaves..I call the big ones tea drum..


During our journey, our tour bus suffered a burst tyre on the expressway, but with a bit of good luck, our driver was able to very quickly find a tyre shop at the next exit to change the tyre.



Well..I did try to use the opportunity to act as if i was part of the action..


As we carried on the journey shortly after,I was really surprised to see many wind turbines( a form of renewable energy generators) along ranges of mountains that stretches as far as my eyes could see..Impressive! The impact hit me like how the grand opening ceremony for the Beijing Olympics did!



I cannot help but feel like China had already overtaken Singapore in terms of new technology and its implementation. To think that here in Singapore,we still have not move on from talks of getting a nuclear reactor generator..feels more like taking a step backwards.