五一黄金周 in China refers to the "Labour Day Golden Week" and it begins on May 1 and lasted for a week. The Chinese government first set 3 days of holiday for the pple, but in the year 2000, it was combined with 2 weekends such that the pple now have a 7 day vacation. The primarily aim for the week long holiday was to help expand the domestic tourism market, improve the national standard of living as week as allowing people to make long-distance family visits.

While most pple have 7 days of holiday, I had 11 days! because I have no lessons on mondays and fridays. hahaa.. so in actually fact, my holiday starts on 28th april. Went to 横店影视城 on the 28th of April for 2 days. Rested on the 30th of April back in Shanghai and set off to 雁荡山 for 3 days on 1st of May, and on the 4th of May, went to 南京. Besides the 7 hours bus ride to and fro for the 雁荡山 trip and missing the first class seats on board the bullet train to Nanjing, I really enjoyed myself during the week long trips. Been to the places many 明星 have step foot on, seen and climbed mountains, experienced the bustling city life of Nanjing etc. Awesome!


28-29 April: 横店影视城

横店 is located in Zhejiang province and is known to be “江南第一镇”. It is located 380km away from Shanghai. It is also one of the first AAAA traveling areas approved by National Tourism Bureau, and is awarded the “Chinese Hollywood” by the American magazine Hollywood Report.

A brief introduction of the place from the website www.hengdianworld.com:

影视城共有七大景区，分别是秦王宫景区、清明上河图景区、江南水乡景区、大智禅寺景区、广州街香港街景区以及明清宫苑、屏岩洞府景区。 横店影视城作为国内拍摄场景最多、规模最大、设施最全的影视拍摄基地，每天都有剧组在这里演绎着上至帝王将相，下至黎民百姓的悲欢离合，酸甜苦辣。 自《鸦片战争》开始，已有包括《荆柯刺秦王》、《雍正王朝》、《绝代双骄》、《杨门女将》、《汉武大帝》、《大宋提刑官》、《英雄》、《天下无双》、《天地英雄》、《天下粮仓》、《无极》、《黄金甲》等300多部电影和电视剧在中国横店影视城拍摄完成。

Day 1-

Set off from 襄阳公园 at about 7am.

First Stop: 沈丽峡

View from the cable car.

暴雨！

野舞火把节

Nitez.