The way to 2 Mo Zuo Inn

Reaching a new place at night is one of those things I love and also hate the most. The combination of unfamiliarity and darkness is frightening but it does make me feel I am on an adventure. Satisfaction is especially powerful when the place I try to reach is hard to reach and difficult to find, and the night when everything is dark does exactly that : it makes the challenge more challenging. 

So I chose to reach Kinmen after sunset at 20h, partly because the flight ticket was cheaper at this hour and also partly I wanted an adventure, a little uncertainty. At 20h the plane was preparing to land, and all I could see through the airplane window is what I can identify as ghost town, lack of artificial light and no sight of human activity. While the roads were lit, they were totally devoid of cars. 

Got off the plane, got into a cab, heading to this 2 Mo Zuo Inn, the accommodation I had booked. My advantage is I speak the language. 2 Mo Zuo Inn should actualy be pronounced as "Er Mao Zuo" Inn. At first luck was on my side, the taxi driver knew the place. But as soon as we reached the place, it seemed like the most remote place on Earth. There was another building beside the Inn, but apart from that, there was no buildings within a few kilometers radius (or at least it felt like so). Without any light apart from lights from the taxi, the worst was the fact that the building seemed vacant, so as the neighbouring building. I knocked the door and nobody answered. 

There was a phone number on the door, so we asked the taxi driver to make the call for us. Through the phone, a person would be sent to us and opened the door for us. Decided not to stay with us, the taxi driver went off hurriedly as soon as the call ended, which seemed a bit awkward and suspicious. Me and my mom were left alone in the dark in the middle of nowhere. It was really worrying.

In the end, a light came to us, literally. Three motorcycles came, carrying 7 people in total and one of them was the butler of the Inn. We later found out that the other 6 people were a family. As soon as the butler helped us into our room, deep inside me I felt so relieved.   

Going to an unfamiliar place at night can be frightening sometimes, and going to an under-developped unfamaliar place at night is frightening most of the time. But the truth is, great emotions can be found in catharsis. If you choose to do so and reach the place you want to go safely, the next morning when sunshine hits and when you have a look at your surroundings, you will feel like you are magically transported to that place.