PINGXIANG. Did you hear about PingXiang? It is a little chineese town on the main road to Vietnam… I stay here involuntary in the chineese army camp… Every time I pass through the gate I politely say -Hallo!- to the guards – soldiers in the elegant uniforms. There is not much to do in PingXiang. I buy my daily bananas on the little market (2 yuan per kilo), mandarines (3 yuan per kilo) and tomatoes (2 yuan again). It is cheap: for 1 USD they pay 7.78 yuan… Sorry – no bread… There are people from the minorities visible on the streets, but they are shy to be photographed. No other tourists… 3 km down the road there is a “downtown” of Pinxiang with few hotels and shops.
No much to do – so it is laundry day. Touts offer money exchange: for 1 yuan – 2000 vietnameese dongs. What will be the rate on the other side of the border? Who knows?
Tomorrow in the morning I’ll try to cross the border to Vietnam again. It is 18 km to the road border crossing. Next train will come two days later – I do not want to wait so long time…
So please keep your fingers crossed my friends! I believe it helps!
