Rjongchiang

In Rjongchiang things got really wrong. But let's start at the beginning. We left Xijiang to go to Leishan which is 1.5 hours away. There the idea was to get a bus to Chongjiang (8 hours south). But you couldn't buy a ticket, instead they told us to flag a bus. Don't forget: in China everything works with drawings and hand signs. Adding to the difficulties of communicating is the fact that they have different hand signs for everything. So we waited about 5 hours to flag a bus. But of 3 only on stop and he had only room for two persons. And Chinese people know how to get to the front. Desperately we already thought about giving up, when two Chinese guys told us that they have the same problem and would be willing to share a cab. So on we went for about 6 hours. But we ended up in Rjongchiang instead of Chongjiang, which was in the same direction but only half the distance. The bus station was already empty.
Rjongjiang hasn't seen anything of China's boom. The main road in the middle of the city is a dirt road and combined with the rain water you have a pool of mud. We checked into the cheapest place we could find (really basic). Then we went out to eat and drink a few beers. 3 hours later we came to our hotel and found about 7 police officers messing with the receptionist and their whole family. People from the street were looking inside. The police told as that this hotel would not be safe and that we have to move. We demanded the money back from the hotel and left after saying thanks to the poor owners. The police officer was talking a lot of candy, while Freddy was playing the good cop and I played the bad cop. I insisted that I wont pay more than at the previous hotel. He brought us to a fancy hotel with a lobby. I was already getting ready, but the price seemed reasonably low (special price which only a police officer can demand). I checked out the room, which only had one big bed, but all kind of gadgets. There was even a computer with Internet access. We agreed.
In retrospective I would say that the first hotel was safe, but that the government is concerned about the way these places would affect the image abroad.
The next day we were of the Realchiang.