1st October - Golden Week Holiday

In China, there are only 3 holiday seasons - Chinese New Year (End Jan or Feb), Labour Day (May 1st) and The National Day (Oct 1st).

That's all.. For some weird reasons, some wise guys from the government think that having all holidays lumping togather is a brilliant idea... Thus, 7 years ago, they implemented this Golden Week holiday for the whole nation.

That's it, no more holidays in between. After this week, I will have to wait till next Feb for the CNY.

Of course, there are good and bad things about this kind of arrangement.

Imagine, would you rather have the public holidays scattered accross the year or would you like it to group it within the same week?

For me, I would rather have the holidays spreaded out.

Because is a Golden week, the whole nation is in boogie mood. There are huge amount of people going around touring. In China, when I say huge amount of people - meaning is HUGE amount of people! Every where you see is just heads and more heads! Worst still, if the uncle from donno what village besides you want to spit, you have no where to run away!

A walk along the famous Nan Jing Walking Street says it all.....

You see nothing but people.....

People, people and people....... this is the scene in subway. This is shoulder to shoulder walk.... something like bumper to bumper....
This is the scene in front of a shopping mall..... how to shop like that?