TRIP TO HENGDIAN

Last week one of our classmates informed us about a group tour. She said there would be a sleepover tour and asked us if we want to go. I and my other Turkish pal in the class accepted to go that trip. We are third year students now and this time could be the last tour with our classmates before graduation. Moreover we have been invited for a picnic last year and not being able to attend due to some other reasons. So we already felt debted to all class. That is why we accepted to go, if there is not, we planed to head another place with my other friends for spending the weekend. The weather was great at the week and that was the second reason for us.

The girl who informed class about that trip said;

‘it may not be available any shopping area in the place, so get your own foods and even water if you can.’

There would be no food and even water, so we thought it will be an adventure trip, and we could spent the night in a tent on a hill and when the weather getting dark and cold we could light a fire in order to get warm. We went to shopping and bought a lot of food the day before travelling.

‘I don’t want to go hungry in a hardship place, so please be sure we don’t forget anything’ I said to my friend.

On Saturday morning, everybody gathered before dining hall. The bus was belong to school and had an old and battered looking. And what is worse, there was no seat for us when we got on the bus. Fortunately some kind friends gave their own seat to us. I sit by window but what hell was that, the windows let the freezing air in the bus, I was really about the freezing if we didn’t change the seats with my buddy. I noticed that most of Chinese classmates just had a small bag. At first I didn’t get why they don’t bring more food along but when we arrived I understand why they didn’t get food with them, coz you could find everything in there. Yeah we just bought the foods unnecessarily.

More Chinese friends were playing cards all the way. I tried to read book at first but unfortunately didn’t manage to read more than five pages, because in a such bus very hard to read something, so I decided to sleep. Actually I was really sleepy at that time, so when I got up, we already reached the destination. Chinese friends rised against the guide when she said you can eat your lunch at 11:00 am in the morning. It is actually not in the morning especially for Chineses, but they also didn’t want to eat at least before mid-day. But there was no way but go to eat, because if it was not eaten at that time, there would be no eating place until 16:30. So everybody went to eat halfheartedly.

After eating something, we set off to enter the closed area called Hengdian. Because a lot of Chinese movie are shot in that place. So it is known as Zhejiang Hengdian World Studios. Tickets have been bought before, so we just showed our ID cards and went into the place. And it was said to us the bus would be back four thirty. We went into it and began to walk around. In three hours, we almost saw the whole studio and took beautiful pictures. But there was no meaning to stay anymore. So we got out of the area and sit in the restaurant for the bus.

I asked the guide if there was any other place for visit, she said no. We set off such early just for visiting one place? That was really ridiculous. I was really angry but our main purpose was being with our classmates, not having lot of fun., so thanks God that consoled us.

We headed for hotel after having dinner. As soon as we reached hotel, I had a rest because of my headache tiredness and restlessness. There was Turkish and Spain football match in the small hours of the morning and we missed to watch it unfortunately. We got up 8 o’clock in the morning and went to another place. It was like an amusement park but like a simple one. Before arrived that park, there was a small lake and on that lake with a Chinese style medium-sized touristic ship, there were some small boats too. We parted from the group with some buddies and rented a rowing-boat. But the weather was very cold so it also not became so enjoyable. We reached the group when they were at park.. I was already boring and wanted to back as soon as possible. We walk around the park in less than two hours. There was no special there, excluding some Buddhist temples.

That was the last stop of the tour. It was the time to hit the road. That tour could be completed in only one day, we spent the night in the hotel in vain. Thanks God we would get back. now. One of the most enjoyable parts of the trip was the game we played in the bus when we were on the way. We imaged a great adventure indeed, but it happened totally different. It became a simple and boring group tour. But being with classmates is more importantly of course, so I do not regret it and never will.