Was planning to visit the provincial museum but it’s Monday and most museums in China close on Monday.

Breakfast (Dry noodles and Fuzhou meatballs 7 Yuan~USD$1)

The high speed train from Fuzhou to Xiamen started running today. The 280km journey which usually takes 4 hours will be shorten to 1.5 hours taking the express train. There is a long line at the auto ticket machine because this is the first time where ticket buyers encounter the machine.

Took bus 51 to the pedestrian street.

On the pedestrian street, there are many food stalls.
(12 Yuan~USD$2)

Took bus 37 to MaWeiQu, a small town south of fuzhou city.

Shipbuilding site at MaWeiQu

Shopping Mall

Have a local hair cut for 15Yuan~USD$2 on some random street and have noodles with meatballs again (6Yuan~USD$1)

Got on the D9221 9.21pm train (85Yuan~USD$12.5) towards Xiamen.

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The high speed train is brand new and was just put into operation today.

Finally, a non squatting toilet

Every now and then, I am still amazed by the infrastructures in China. The country is planning to build 12,000 km of high speed rail track by 2012, connecting Beijing with most other provincial capital in the country within 8 hours. Reducing travel time between neighboring provincial capital to under 2 hours and cities inside province to an hour. The bullet train is called HeXieHao and is made in China. The government has a stake in many of the companies involved in building infrastructure.

Arrived at Xiamen train station at 11.11pm sharp.

Took a cab (12Yuan~USD$2) to BaJiaCun hostel (40Yuan~USD$6) since bus 3 and 21 stopped running at that time.
6 bed dorm

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