Day 1 at Zhengzhou (12 October, 2011)
We were lucky, I guess, the first day we reached Zhengzhou (郑州) and cruising the Yellow River on a hovercraft, it was very hazy and gloomy but the weather improved the next day onwards and we had all the way clear sky until flying back to KL via Shanghai on 18 October, 2011. Our local tour guide Siow Lee, vividly told us that we were the Fu-Xing (lucky stars) as before we came, it was hazy and raining but upon our arrival, the sun shined so in time.
Hovercraft
I guess we must be very lucky indeed as during our Yellow River Cruise, it was so misty and gloomy and it was so cold in the early spring but when the sun risen the next day, the weather became so likeable, not so cool and not so hot hovering around 15 to 20o C and some of our tour mates, those elderly gentlemen especially were not even putting up their jackets, wearing short sleeves and enjoying the chill but not cold weather.
Our local tour guide was well aware of our tiring flight which started at 2.00 a.m on 12 October and after a 5-hour flight, we had to rush for a connecting flight to Zhengzhou and there were very long queue to clear the immigration as foreigners not only from Asian countries but also the Europeans were flocking into the ancient city of Xi-an for the well known Terracotta warriors, so it was only the yellow river cruise and visiting the YanHuang （炎黄） statue and YanHuang square on the first day. After the early dinner, we were then checking in a hotel in Zhengzhou. I went to bed early at 9 p.m. So tiring as I was not able to sleep on the plane from KL to Shanghai as there were loud snoring from the front and back of my seat.
Boarding a hovercraft
Hovercraft speeding on the river bank
Hovercraft approaching the river bank
YanHuang Statue - Yan Huang (炎黄）
the ancestors of Chinese inhabiting at the river basin of Yellow River
Zhengzhou railway station
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