it's hard not to fall in love with places like this... I mean this this is absolutely amazing.
Wow, that music in the background is really annoying, but just the freaking landscape, man!
Itis absolutely beautiful everywhere everywhere as long as we've been driving for the last two days
we've just been seeing mountain after Mountain after Mountain after Mountain after Mountain
after Mountain and to be honest like earlier today I always start me kind of get annoyed
like I don't ever want to see a mountain again I don't ever want to see a mountain again but
then just as I'm starting to get kind of angry about it it opens up and then you get all these
rice paddies everywhere and you got all these different types of plants and Gardens their
grapes there's all different kinds of trees here it's it's awesome our first destination
today is e quan. I think it's like a mountain Valley Park and it's Big Lake and stuff you see
we built up a really quite a nice little parking lot area but yeah there's no one here we are so so
deep right now it's it's really hard to get here this area is so remote but yeah I'm excited to see
what's going on here yeah and something else interesting that's been changing is the signs
signs are now all written in Vietnamese we've been seeing those along the roadway and stuff
we are very close to Vietnam got rice for days got rice for days all right yes yo what up ducks
take that as a hello I've never seen Lotus plants out of this tall before some of these
are right up like my head height it's crazy now mostly mostly they're only a couple of
feet tall but yeah these are these are proper plants but these and they just go on and they
are right up on the path as well yeah they're close see this is kind of more
what I'm expecting something like waist height like a waist height lotus flowers that's about
what you normally get not those giant ones from earlier yeah still still nice to look at that
and here's something I've never gotten at a restaurant in China sweet tea this
tea is actually sweet literally every other place in China they just give you tea with
absolutely nothing and it's just green tea is black tea it's any sort of you know buckwheat
tea I mean it's not overly sweet it's not like having sweet tea and the South but this it's
certainly noticeable and that's that's kind of its kind of weird for China I've never seen or
heard of any restaurant that serves sweet tea just for free along with the meal fascinating
something here I haven't seen anything like this for a long time it's a sort of its its
egg mixed in with some local like vegetable and they just made it into a super super flat pancake
like this so yeah there you go you can see the the veggie mixed in right there that's cool
simple savory dish it's got just the right amount of salt in it like honestly can't
really taste a vegetable in here but I do know it's here now looks pretty good right
there mm-hmm you know this is one of the specialties of this particular restaurant
a lot of ginger a lot of ginger nuts and another verb I can identify which is super fragrant super
frigging the very light oh I really like that it's not too oily it's awesome it's it's good apologies
thing about God there's got a lot of bones so you gotta kind of eat around it you have no idea what
that other other spices there's so nice though is everything super like super like hmm counteracts
the heaviness of the ginger really well yeah there's that veggie that putting the eggs go
to a towel so water water grass I mean I guess I don't know what the actual name is but well and
just down the road from the other place is jiuzhou ancient town town so ancient looks brand-new some
of us not even finished yet but here's the ancient market here's the ancient street all
the way back from the 90s early 2000s here's the ancient Wahaha vending machine all the way back
to 2019 so ancient some of us not even finished yet I have this guy this guy is the oldest thing
in this town right here yeah he's he's proper old school and look every single building has
multiple Chinese flags on it it's on every single building just to remind you this is China this is
not Vietnam its yeah they're everywhere there's so much red here it would make sense to have an
ancient town right here like an actual living town that has been here for thousands and thousands of
years it would make sense because this is the place where you would live and farm and work
and because there's there's so much open land there's so much water around it's it's a really
good place for living yeah the thing that annoys me about these ancient towns like really hate them
because like because they they all turn into the same thing becomes newly built shop after
newly built shop after newly built shop then there are street vendors selling the same four or five
things everywhere selling kind of toured the same toys and knickknacks and nothing becomes special
anymore nothing special anymore and that's that's the sad part because all of these towns have their
own characteristics and things but you know once they're all built up like this they all I look
about the same they all feel about the same those see maybe one two three buildings I think that's
all that's left of the old place I'm pretty sure that's a dead pig or something in the water there
that's definitely a dead animal whoo not really what you want to see in a place like this or
well ever oh the pigs gonna hit the pillar yeah there it goes there it goes right by the ancient
building that the truck is gonna park in front of see the thing that I'm wondering is whenever
the pigs were coming down someone's like the pig are here! They're coming down the river and then
something usually went out and grabbed a stick I think stick man's gonna try and poke these pigs is
either gonna poke him where he's gonna reel him in push it nope oh he's bringing it right along
bringing it right along all right it's maybe yeah I think it's just yep pushed it right back out in
the river so it's gonna come right by us like he's ready for it so I'm here wondering like
how often does this happen because he was out with that stick in about a minute and a half he was up
on it he was johnny-on-the-spot so that one looks that one looks nasty this one looks pretty fresh
up here huh Betty it's nice nice scenic area yeah I guess dead pigs happen everywhere right yeah the
ambiance is slightly ruined by file this this is the ancient building that everyone's here to
see looking at this building it looks to be some kind of temple I could see some some figurines in
there of course there's incense out front see I will take a look in a second here yeah it's
definitely a temple definitely a place of worship but for which gods folk gods or it's definitely
not Buddhism it's not Buddhist because normally I don't film it like it you know the insides of
temples but this one uh this is a new kind of thing I don't actually know what it is so if
anyone can read these maybe it's when Chung Mun something like that or if any of these are clues
to what this is yeah let me know in the comments let me know what it is in the comments well that's
the donation box yeah anyone who knows tell me so yeah it looks like they'll WenChang
something d maybe Huang Di Zhisheng Wei Cheung Emperor God I'm not sure I'm not sure
I do like the idea though but do you like the idea of a temple on the water a temple in the middle
of a river that's pretty cool especially when you take the rest of the landscape into account right
here because just over there there are fields of flowers so there's water there's mountains there's
flowers there's you know rice so you've got food you've got like you've got pleasure you've got
religion kind of all in one spot just basically all that you know people really need if they are
the religious type I suppose chambers you'll see these in various places but along the way
let's see yeah you'll see locks we're like couples will engrave their initials on it and stuff
like this names or whatever it is and you know symbolizes yeah we'll love each other forever and
stuff like that they do that in other countries as well I think is in there that one bridge like
in Paris or something that's like it got too heavy so they did cut off all the locks from the
bridge yeah but it is something you'll see you'll see around around China and see the little the
Buddhist swastika along with various uh wishes and good thoughts and fortunes written on the ribbons