Yu's footprint

Carrying only 100 yuan (equals with 10 euro) to travel to somewhere more than 200km away for two days? Sleep in wonderful small hotel, have three good meals a day and even be companied by your personal tour guide. Impossible!! But you know what is my favourite saying? IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. So, with 100 yuan I took on the train to Heijing.
Good traveler dares to take a risk. Start your journey with few money is a huge venture, but don’t take what I said at face value. I’m not that brave. I got a wonderful partner to be my fellow traveler. Kaul, my classmate in high school, shared all the expenses I paid. In the end, 100 yuan provided me a rattling trip.
My suggestions for those people who are lack of money right now but still bullheaded to insist traveling (unfortunately just like me) are: 1. Find one or more buddies to go together which can make your expenses divide into many parts. 2. Go to Heijing.
Now if you still doubt what I said above, don’t bother to read the things below. But if my words are so compelling that you’ve counted your coins and decided to go to Heijing, I have the suggestion No.3 for you: buy the ticket of slowest train. It’s rather cheap, the views along the railway are amazing, and the most important is you needn’t to be hurry. Heijing is such a small ancient town, you’ll find you have nothing to do but stare blankly, walk on the narrow road and fall in your deep thought.
I’ll offer some pics of the scene outside of the train. I wish it would be a powerful persuasion to let you choose the slow train.





Despite the low commodity prices (a plate of specially made dry beef only costs 10 yuan), what’s the biggest virtues of Heijing? Beyond peradventure it’s the History. Heijing bagan to produce and process salt more than 2,000 years ago. It became an important town in Chinese salt history. As government is the monopolist of salt, tea, sugar in the ancient China, Heijing became a strong supporter of the income of Chinese royal government. It turned rich and more and more flourish. In Qing Dynasty, the salt production of Heijing occupied more than 60% of the whole country. Just imagine that golden time, everyone in the town enjoyed a luxurious life. Here are the pics of the richest family Wu’s huge house. Don’t be jealous.



You may insist that you live in Heijing, since natives needn’t buy the entrance ticket. Though you look like a traveler with a big packet, though you don’t look like Chinese at all, you can still insist. Long long ago, a man of Heijing eneded his study abroad and brought back a French wife. It was unusual in the small town, but insisting you are one of their grand grand grand grandchildren is just fine. I can even show your French style house to you now.

And my suggetion No.4 comes here: never think about evading the ticket. First, everyone in the small town knows each other. You? A complete stranger. Second, without ticket means you are unable to visit some places, and have no right to ask for a free tour guide. So, be a good guy and obey the law.
Heijing doesn’t fit for everybody. If you are good at spending your night in pubs or together with a lot of people, Heijing is a wrong place. All the stores close early. If you are lucky enough (that means you’re not the only tourist), you’ll have the chance to get to know every onther visitors. I bet you can meet them more than 10 times a day in the town. It’s such a small place!
Heijing only fits for those people who are eager to get away from the normal life. I mean, you have to abandon the computer, abandon your business, even abandon yourself here. Just walk on the lovely streets, or on the narrow roads lead to the mountain, or even just sit in your room and open the window towards the Longchuan River. The best way to travel in Heijing is ---- spend several days without doing anything. Just breathing, feeling and thinking.
At last, I’ll paste some photos of the aspects of Heijing’s peaceful life.
1.The roads in the town are cute and delicate. You will never find two streets that look alike.



2.Live in the yard of Wang’s clan is a wise choice. This is the Longchuan river outside my window.

3.The funny dinner table in a restaurant and an interesting decration on the wall of somwone’s house.


4.Mountain, mountain, mountain. Mountains are everywhere.