As usual, these tours are subsidised by merchants. Part of the tour experience is the shopping. For this tour we were taken to a jade factory where there were jade of every color and ornamentation being offered for sale. They took their time and most of our tour group bought jade of some form or other. The rest of us were outside tasting whatever delicacies the market had to offer. We had these skewers of some vegetarian stuff for .50 yuan a piece. They were cooked in a hot and spicy broth and really tasty. We ate a lot and finally the bus took off after a long jade buying spree. The mini van (bus) broke down when we were almost at our hotel. The driver was cussing. We left him and a few of us who were staying at the same hotel took the bus back.
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