Fujian Province is south of Zhejiang province and slightly resembles Georgia in that it and a few other southern provinces seemed to be a dumping ground for prisoners and dissidents. It is very mountainous even along the coast. Xiamen is a small coastal island in the south of Fujian Province. Xiamen seems to be noted for their egrets and seafood. (I don’t eat seafood in China because I have been spoiled by American seafood. Here there are too many bones, heads, shells and other body parts to deal with).
In Xiamen we took a ferry across the harbor to a smaller island called Gulang Yu that had colonial type houses and plants that could have come from Sea Island. We did the typical Chinese activity of climbing to the top of the hill to taking pictures. After ferrying back we shopped and found my favorite Singapore brand of meat called Bee Cheng Hiang. I bought enough to get us through the next couple of days in the country.
