We woke up early, we should be ready by 8am. We had a buffet breakfast. I really love their soya milk! I wish I can have it for breakfast back home. =)

At 8:30am we checked out from the hotel. From Jinjiang City we moved to Quanzhuo City where our hospital is located. Since it's a holiday, the elders (Nino's mom's sisters) decided to tour us around the city. We first went to Kaiyuan temple, the largest temple in the Fujian Province. It was equally as famous as Baima Temple in Luoyang City, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou City, and Guangji Temple in Beijing City, and has strong influence upon Taiwan and overseas Buddhists. In 1983, it was designated as one of national key temples in the areas of the Han nationality.

Kaiyuan Temple is a relatively integrated square-yard Buddhism buildings group, and covers an area of 78,000 square meters. On its medial axis stand in proper order Buddha's Warrior Attendants Hall, Heavenly King Hall, Main Hall, and Sutra Hall. The Main Hall is the principal building, located at the center of this temple. The Statue of Vairochana Buddha, the highest God of Buddhism's Secret Sect is enshrined in the temple. A large number of cultural relics are preserved here and there are more than 3,700 volumes of Buddhist scriptures of various editions stored in the Sutra Hall, in which the relatively rare scriptures include Great Treasury Scriptures and Lotus Scripture. Manuscripts of Hongyi, a modern accomplished monk, are also treasured up herein.

Twin pagodas near Kaiyuan Temple are also famous. The east one is Zhenguo Pagoda and the west one Renshou Pagoda. They are forty meters in height, as the highest twin pagodas in China. They are the unique symbol of the ancient city of Quanzhou. Moreover, the east pagoda was selected as one of the four stamp patterns of China's Ancient Towers in 1994. 

Afterwards, we went to Laozi Stone Temple.

At the foot of Mt. Qingyuan in the northern suburbs of Quanzhou there is a huge Yuhua Rock, which was carved into a seated statue of the founder of Taoism, Lao Zi who has left hand on his knee, his right hand against a small table, his eyes looking straight forward and his beard flowing, in a leisurely and carefree manner. Five meters high, the statue is the biggest stone statue of Lao Zi in China.

Chinese people believe that you'll have long life if you have a picture taken here with one hand facing the statue and your body facing the sea. So, we did have our pictures taken that way. =)

Our third stop is the Fujian-Taiwan Kinship Museum, a national museum that explains the historical relationship between the mainland province of Fujian and the island of Taiwan. It has an interesting infrastructure, it's roof is like a UFO. When I went inside, their was a huge gun powder painting. And who would have thought that a weapon of destruction can create a magnificent art!

The museum also displays the many local crafts of Quanzhou such as stone carving, wood carving, embroidery and puppet making.

We had our lunch and dinner in a restaurant. We used chopsticks coz they don't have spoon and fork. By the way, Chinese people are not fond of serving spoon or serving chopsticks. So you'll just use the chopsticks that you have to get the food from the serving plate. They always have tissue paper as well as toothpick in their table.

Our last stop is Quanzhuo Zaitun Hotel where we will be staying. Unlike the first hotel that we had, this hotel is much cheaper. There is no computer in our room, but there's wifi. This hotel and the previous one that we had provided us with comb and shoe shine. Hehe.. I must say that Chinese are particular about their hair and their shoes. =)