Email No. 2

Hello everybody!

Happy to receive Motti's second email this morning. He tells me he can't access the blog from China. And apparently no one else can since no one left a comment. So I have no idea if anyone but yours truly has read this blog. But no matter. It's a fantastic memorialization of Motti's missives to us. Motti, thanks for the great emails and looking forward to as many as you can get around to doing.

From: Motti Mor [mailto:motti_mor@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:40 AM

Hi,

Thank you all for responding. For those who used the blog, I'm sorry for not responding. I somehow cannot get in the site from China.

OK. After a week in China I can tell you that it is not only different here but funny as well. It is not easy to travel around this huge country although my Chinese helps quite a bit.

The traffic system here is so strange (and sometimes dangerous) because when there is green light on one side, it seems it’s a green light to everyone so everybody starts driving in every direction. (I mean cars, busses, bicycles, some sort of 3-wheel cars and many more strange things.) But somehow they manage to maintain traffic flow in that mess.

Yesterday I saw an old woman riding her bicycle. A taxi was in front of her. The taxi made a sudden stop and the women crashed in the rear of the taxi. (And I mean crashed!) I was the only foreigner in the street and I was the only one who stopped. I was sure she got injured. But after two seconds she gathered herself up and kept on riding.

Now to continue with my journey stories. We arrived to Cheng Du a few days ago and traveled around the city which is much more organized and modern then Beijing. After seeing the Panda bears we decided to pack our bags and go south towards the rear side of Tibet. We took the early morning bus (6 a.m.!!!) and started our long trip north. As we boarded the bus, we realized that we were the only foreigners on the bus.

The 12-hour ride was really hard especially when all the passengers on the bus (both men and women) spit on the floor smoke and throw everything they have on the bus floor. But it was a great adventure and we became good friends with the people on the bus who offered us everything they had to eat (chicken legs, shrimps, dried yak and more).

After the long trip we arrived to Songpan, which is a Tibetan village with horse-riding treks. The trek was really amazing with an amazing view of mountains, clouds, rural villages, and snow.

I'm running out of time and I can keep on going for days so for now it's enough I guess.

To be continued......

From Tibet on the way to Jiuzhaigou (9 villages Valley).
Miss you all already
Motti
P.S. Pictures soon...