One month trip: mission accomplished!! In order to fulfill the craving of a long trip (for us Asians from developing countries, one month is considered a pretty long trip already :p), me and some friends bought one way ticket to India. Apparently Airasia closed their flight to Mumbai right before our flight there, so we got a chance to refund it (No Way Jose, we got it for only MYR 33), we can also change the airlines to go there OR change the destination. At the end, I changed mine to Chengdu, Fenny changed to Seoul, and the rest donated their money for the glory of Airasia, Hip Hip Hurray!!!
Everything is indeed happened for a reason. In the despair of being new jobless, I tried to tempt Shanty to grab our backpacks and head to China for one month, like we always wanted to do, but after peeping at the ticket price by that time, we must put our bags back into the closet. But miracle has its own way to work its magic, not so long after, came the Airasia email that told us the big news. From the very beginning, I was pretty sure that I’ll change mine to China, tho not sure which city. I was jolted with excitement, not because I didn’t want to go to India, but you can never lie to your heart, I was more into China at that time. And a random browse in internet made me ended up dropping jaw with awe - seeing pictures of Western Sichuan. Claimed as one of the best road trip in this mother earth, starting from Chengdu to Shangri-La, passing some Tibetan villages with its rich culture, vast grassland, snowy peaks, long mountain range, a no-doubt paradise on earth. It was (supposed to be) the highlight of this trip.
The early plan was to be landed on Chengdu, then skip all the major tourist attractions in Sichuan like JiuZhaiGou, Leshan or Emei Shan (not that I don’t wanna visit it, simply cos I know that I’ll be back there again, JZG is one of my ultimate destinations after all), then travel south to Shangri-La in Yunnan province via KangDing, Tagong and Litang. The road passing western Sichuan will take around one week to 10 days in schedule. After arriving Shangri-La, then travel east to reach Kunming, then get out from China to Vietnam, therefore I bought my ticket back home from Hanoi. It was a good plan, apparently it was too good to be true, too bad.
And it happened again!! Patrick be my only travel buddy after Trisna canceled to join the trip three days before leaving. Guess I wasn’t ready to hit the road by myself for one month, and the fact that Trisna is able to speak Chinese will help a lot, meanwhile I understand no words in Chinese. I also caught bad flu, cough and fever one week before D-day, I started to worry more about my health, even in a fit condition I’m not sure I can survive in places with altitude more than 4000 meters above sea level. I couldn’t even tell my parents that I’ll go there alone, or they wouldn’t let me go, so I had to lie. Well actually it wasn’t a lie, I just didn’t tell them the truth :p So it was pretty chaotic before leaving, but fortunately it all pays off at the end. Another life lesson to worry less and not to fear something that not even happen yet
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