CLUB 12/68 REUNION GUILIN – YANGSHUO, CHINA – 28 MAY – 02 JUNE 2012

 Day 2 – 29 May 2012
This is the day the golfers were waiting for. A day of golf at the Landscape Golf Club. Prior to that we had breakfast at the 5th Floor.

 

The hotel’s coffee house. Telur rebus was a must. Followed by bread, porridge, jagung and ubi keledek rebus.    

The golfers left at about 7.30 am and the non-golfers shortly after.



The clubhouse look impressive enough. We changed at the Changing Room and proceeded to the starting point.


Our bags were in the buggies and a caddy for each of the golfers. I had difficulty trying to know my caddy’s

 

name and eventually called her Jenny.
Our flight was a threesome. So I was alone in the buggy, driven by the caddy.

 

 

There were comments about the course especially of the greenholing on all the greens.

On my part, I just love the views. We were surrounded by hills.


One was Thumb Hill and there was a ‘Nipple Hill’
or so I thought as explained by Jenny. There must be a more mellowed name to it I’m sure.



There was no betting amongst us. Either respecting one another or just don’t have the heart to deprive a friend of their Renminbis. Khalid and Kamaruddin were good enough to return good scores whilst I am happy just to move around the course. Surprisingly I saw no bird except for one.


It looks like our ‘burung wak wak’. There were no monkeys either. Not much could be derived of the surroundings as our only means of info was the caddy. It was like ‘ayam and itek’ talking.
It was our first day of the golfing competition.


Whilst having coffee, either Brazilian, Columbian or Madelin, the Golf Convenor, John Ramli, was busy computing the scores. It was a system 36 with a Stableford Points score. I didn’t even try to understand the rudimentaries.
We went back to the hotel, rest a bit and set out for dinner again. Yes, at the same restaurant. This time around, the dishes tasted better. The telur dadar tasted like telur dadar. And there was a sambal belacan, I thought. Of course I was already on Mie’s table enjoying her sambal ikan bilis. Also Azizah’s serunding daging.
A plan trip for a night shopping was aborted due to rain. We went back to the hotel.

CLUB 12/68 REUNION GUILIN – YANGSHUO, CHINA – 28 MAY – 02 JUNE 2012

 Day 1 – 28 May 2012
It started off with everybody calling each other in the wee hours of the morning of 28 May 2012. To remind each other that our flight to Guilin was from LCCT and not KLIA.Air Asia Flt 1034. Takeoff at 0630.
 

Reminders were necessary as previous experiences have had some of us going to different airports.

The departure and the massive logistics arrangements for 45 of us went well. Thanks to Hans and Helmy of High Point Travel who were there ‘very early’ I presumed to handle us all.



The flight was uneventful. Everybody had nasi lemak ‘Pak Nasser’, not nasi lemak ‘Pak Abbas’ as in the previous trip. Must have changed caterer. Maybe our junior Mohd Nasser. We reached Guilin in time. At the Liangjiang Airport of Guilin, we had a Doa selamat of thanks to the Almighty led by our Imam, Hj Hamdan, for arriving safely.

 


Two coaches waited and we proceeded for lunch at a Muslim restaurant.


It was the only Muslim restaurant in Guilin. Being fussy about food, we thought it was palatable, except the telur dadar, a must for us especially for Isa came out after a bit of prompting. It was a case of first day oversight. Even though a Muslim cooking, it does not quite met our Malaysian taste. And I was eyeing for those who brought along extra messings like sambal ikan bilis and serunding daging to join their tables later on. We checked in early enough. 3.30 pm. ‘Rooms not Ready’. This seems to be the standard answer in China.

‘And whilst waiting for the rooms to be ready we will take you to -----‘.



 
 

After a short rest we then proceeded for dinner. The same restaurant.

 After dinner we went for a boat ride termed as ‘ Night Cruise at 2 Rivers 4 Lakes’.

 

 It was a beautiful cruise. Through  multi-coloured lights they lighted up both sides of our cruise.


 It included a lift through a ‘lock’ to reach the upper reaches of the lakes and down again through these systems of locks. Just like the Suez and the Panama. There were performances by Chines artists on stages along the routes.


 It was a well-choreographed show. Impressive, this considering that their economy is 60% on tourism. Thus they went all out to thrive on this industry.