Hi guys!
Before I start the video today, I just wanted to say a quick thank you for 100,000 subscribers!
I'm just still kind of...
I don't know, it's a little surreal for me.
I remember just a year ago I was so excited to hit 1,000 subscribers.
And 100,000 is just - wow!
So, thank you guys so much.
Thank you for watching my adventures.
The video today is going to be about the town of Meizhou
which is a pretty small town about 5 hours outside of Shenzhen.
I was randomly, kind of last minute invited there by a friend of mine,
and that is her hometown.
So of course, I said "Why not? Let's go."
Something that was really cool about Meizhou
is that it is NOT touristy whatsoever, at all.
Most of the people there had never seen a foreigner before,
they had never heard of New York, Miami, where I'm from
A few of them had heard of London.
It was just pretty cool to get away from my own culture
and experience someone else's
in a very, you know, just ordinary, everyday-life kind of way.
It was just a really good feeling being there.
And yeah, here is the first of my Meizhou videos.
Hope you guys enjoy, and thank you thank you so much again for 100,000.
Livio is here to say hello, but he's not going with me.
I will go on the next trip, though.
I'll take the next one.
Are you sure?
- Yes....
- I don't think... you'll go.
- Japan, right?
Well I'm probably going to go to Shanghai or Beijing.
Are you coming?
- Nope.
Not Shanghai, not Beijing.
Took the metro, and now I'm at a super tiny bus stop.
I got my ticket.
On our way.
This is my friend!
Hello, I'm Fancy.
Hello everyone.
We have gotten into the town.
Sorry that the clip is dark - but it is night now!
The bus was supposed to take like 4 hours,
but we for some reason got the slowest bus driver.
It actually ended up taking over 5 hours, so we got in really late.
Hello.
Well hello Fancy, you're looking good today.
- Hello, morning! You too, thank you!
So, Fancy said "let's just go walk around.
Okay.
And then she brings me up to the top of this mountain!
Look.
It's really pretty, but I just wasn't prepared.
And I am dying.
I don't know what this is.
I don't know, but I felt like I was going to throw up.
I think it's the heat and humidity as well,
because it's so hot and humid, it's insane.
And it's only like 9 in the morning, so...
Feel like I'm dying.
Beautiful views up here, even though I almost fainted on the way up.
Now we are in a taxi driving to Fancy's grandfather's house.
This is Fancy's cousin.
He's so cute!
He's so cute.
Fancy and I are downtown in Meizhou,
and we're going to walk around a little bit.
Fancy and I are walking now on this street that has all of these trees,
and then it's really busy and there's all of these
really colorful shops, bikes going by.
In Shenzhen, the motorbikes aren't allowed, because it's such a big city,
but here they're just all over, and I love it.
I think that it just has, I don't know, it just has a lot of character!
I'm loving it.
People are probably watching me film, like normal stuff.
Like... what?
But it's really cool.
Good morning guys, it is my second morning waking up here in Meizhou.
I am staying at Fancy's house.
Morning Fancy.
- Hello!
And she lives kind of outside the town, and there's all of this farmland here,
and it is so green and gorgeous and peaceful.
Woke up this morning to roosters crowing and birds singing.
Right now, we are going to...
Where are we going, Fancy?
- Missing Valley.
Missing Valley.
Sounds very intriguing.
Fancy and I are having breakfast, and it's rice noodles and soup.
And it is so good, especially the noodles, I love them.
We're by a street where all these bikes are going by.
We have arrived in Missing Valley,
and we're walking through it now, because no cars are allowed.
There is just endless green rice fields here, and here's some wildflowers.
It is so green and lush here, more so even than other places I've seen in China.
- Yay, hello!
We're - we're here with some of Fancy's friends, but they're shy to be in the video.
Wow, those bugs are so loud!
They sound like an alarm.
These bugs sound like a fire alarm, but it's just bugs.
We have reached the first waterfall!
That bridge is not in good condition!
Alright, to the next waterfall!
Got to the second waterfall, or almost.
We are going down there!
More gorgeous hikes!
These stairs leading past all of these different waterfalls and rivers
are so, so beautiful.
Oh look, it's a table of mushrooms.
Mushroom table.
Yeah, these are definitely real.
This is the biggest waterfall we've seen yet,
and it is so, so tall!
There's actually one tree at the very top, just standing there.
It is so... it's just magnificent.
And there's this breeze coming from it,
and little drops of water, even from all the way over here.
So I guess once we get over there, it's going to be getting us a little wet.
This is like a skyscraper waterfall!
Just seen the last waterfall.
It's suddenly gotten very dark and looks like it's going to storm though,
so we are hurrying back
and hopefully it's not going to be a big thunderstorm on us.
Wow, look at this rock, it's completely covered in moss!
So soft.
This is one of the last places that there are just Clouded Leopards running around wild,
and actually even the park rangers have never actually seen them,
because they are so elusive and shy, and good at hiding.
So you'll never see them, but they've seen their footprints
and they have caught them on cameras that they've set up in the woods.
So, in these mountains, there are actually Clouded Leopards.
Pretty cool, even though of course we didn't see any.
We have left the Missing Valley,
and we're just walking through all of this farmland right now.
Rice fields...
We're going to go to a restaurant that is here, that Fancy says she's been to before.
They use the water from the valley, where we just were, to make the food.
And it's supposed to give it this extra sweetness.
So it's not really a restaurant, it's more like a local woman's house.
And she just yelled at us to go wash our hands before we eat all of the food.
Just finished the meal.
This food is so good.
So, what I have been eating for the last few days here in Meizhou is Hakka food, cuisine.
A lot of garlic, salt, ginger.
As we're sitting here, this local woman is coming by to give the lady that owns this place
just, some more fresh vegetables for her kitchen.
She's like carrying them back, dripping wet, into her kitchen.
And the lady just picked them.
So cool.
- So that's the food that we eat. So fresh.
You know, everything is fresh.
Fancy has brought me to a temple.
It looks so cool!
It goes on all the way over there.
This is the courtyard of the temple.
Just come out of that area of the temple, and now we come out of there,
and right in front of me is this huge, enormous temple,
even bigger than the other parts.
Well, the temple was rather amazing.
We got right as it was closing, and all of the monks seem to have left.
Waiting for our taxi, which is actually here right now.
Let's go.
- Let's go.