salmon2jalan

Guiyang

Hello from china- towards Guiyang.
We had a late start 10.30 instead of 7.30, for 5 hours of driving close to 550km.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang went to the workshop. we headed off. Car 10 and one policeman stayed behind with her.
Well what was supposed to have been a smooth dual expressway turned out to be a nightmare!
Road improvements meant diversion without any notice or warning signs or lights! this is so common in china. Wait for the photos and you will see what we went through.
So it took us 8 hours! We received news that CCBB and Car 10 left Chongqing at 6 pm! Well we are praying that they will arrive safe. They do not have the police escort car with them, justone of the police man.
As we were driving through the city towards our hotel, a man runs across to get to the other side, two cars infront and get hit by a taxi overtaking us from the right. They are left hand drive over here. This means that overtaking must be on the left side. We saw him hit and went flying over the bonnet to the windscreen of the taxi, but again we have to just keep going. Just horrible. Sweeper behind us said that he saw the man get up!
Thank God for this nice hotel and good strong shower with very hot water.

posted by Ann Salmon @ 10:57 pm