Just 5 days after my walk-about in Houhai with Kim, I took my first-ever CouchSurfing guest from Hungary to the same bar street. The morning sun was casting its rays upon the frozen lake through the haze and entertained the ice-skaters enough to carve out a ying-yang symbol with their blades.BOCI and I noticed something unusual on the ice as we circled the lake.
Walking closer, we noticed the silhouette were that of wooden chairs on miniature skis! I'm not sure how thrilling one would have skating across a pond while sitting on a chair, but you've got to hand it to the Chinese for honing their entrepreneurial skills and looking for every opportunity to make a quick kuai.Passing the ubiquitous Starbucks out of Houhai, we continued our trek South
to Beihai Park, home of the White Pagoda, for some more great scenery. The late afternoon sun was quickly setting so we made a beeline up the hill to see the pagoda. Sadly, it was closed to curious tourists for the day so we had to be content with looking at it from the outside, up close. The view from above commanded a somewhat impressive view of our surroundings, though. But without the warmth of the sunlight, the canvas was rather opaque.
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