Duolachen
February 9, 2025
This is a wooden house that is over 30 years old, but it is very poorly maintained. It was very old, with black stains everywhere, which was completely different from the wooden house that had been lived in Japan for 100 years. Coming here in winter is a nightmare. We use kerosene heaters for heating, and the whole building smells terrible of kerosene. I am very worried about carbon monoxide poisoning. But when I turned off the heater, it was as cold as an ice cellar and I couldn't sleep the whole night. The food felt pretty average, mainly some cold cuts, soft boiled vegetables, bean sprouts, enoki mushrooms, freshly roasted beef, and rice. We, who think Ichiran ramen is delicious, only eat a quarter of it. This is run by a few elderly people, which I really admire, but the problem is that they are unable to maintain good hygiene. There are hairs on the carpet, there is no toilet in the room, and the mattress and quilt have turned yellow from at least ten years of use. The night we arrived, there happened to be a once-in-a-decade snowstorm, and there were no taxis at all. However, they didn't come to pick me up even though they had a car. It took two hours of repeated communication through Ctrip before they finally drove over to pick me up. They refused to see us off when we left, so we spent half an hour dragging our suitcases on a very steep and slippery road in the blizzard and cold wind. This kind of indifference is chilling!
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