It’s that time of the year. Everyone wants to come home to be with their families and loved ones to spend Chinese New Year in the fastest and most convenient way.
But this migrant worker working in Rizhao, Shandong Province, instead of spending it on trains, buses, or planes, biked his way home to Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province.
The trip will obviously take longer than usual (and cheaper) compared to a bus, plane, or train ride, but as for the man's trip, it took him a month because he didn’t know that he was going the wrong direction.
Not until a traffic police in Wuhu, Anhui Province, stopped him on the side of an expressway.
Shanghaiist reported that the man claimed he had been biking home for Spring Festival for a month already, and his hometown is in the opposite direction.
The man couldn’t blame other people who gave him wrong directions at the start of his journey, because he himself didn’t question them again over 500km bike ride southwest to Anhui.
The policeman and tollbooth workers all chipped in to buy the man a ticket back home out of pity, and advised him not to bike the 2,450 km back northeast anymore.
Known as Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival is the most important, highly anticipated festival in China as well as neighboring countries. This year, the festival starts on Jan. 28.
Up to 356 million trips are expected to be made via rail stations alone. For sure, bus or plane fares are equally expensive as the festival is nearing.