Our Imaginary Trishaw Ride...

Why so? It should be a real ride but the saga of the evil tour guide lurks in this story. The dear tour guide collected an exorbitant fee for this trishaw ride and a traditional performance. He collected, or should I say the tour agency charged each person 120yuan just for a short trishaw ride and an hour of traditional performance. 

Let's clear the air. I don't know how do other people go for tour. I can see that no one did any asking around for the actual price, not for anywhere, they just trusted the tour guide completely. Pinky and I have a different way of operating around. We asked different trishaw riders for their prices. We got the cheapest in the end, 50yuan for BOTH of us, going for a 20-minute ride.We thought that was a really good bargain and the trishaw in Beijing was better than the trishaw in Malacca which both of us took a ride around Malacca city. We were afraid that if we took the ride, the few oldies who went for the ride would be back and then definitely the tour guide will leave us behind. And we still do not know which part of Beijing we were at. The trishaw man tried to persuade us saying that it would be another 20 minutes before those who left came back. We were still thinking, trying to lower down the price when lo' and behold, the few oldies were back already. See? The tour guide even arranged for the route to be shortened. They were back in less than 10 minutes.

While they were away, we had the time to exercise on the equipment placed by the road side. Reminds me so much of home...