WUDANG SHAN
Day 34
Pre-trip morning
In the mornings, we went to have breakfast with our Chinese friends from China at 7.30am as their lessons(taking note that it is a Sunday) at 8am! Wah! Even though our trip meeting time was to be at 10am, we wanted to take this few rare opportunities left to meet thus we woke up a little earlier to have breakfast from 7.30-8am.
We went to their canteen to eat. It is only the 2nd time that I have ever been to their canteen for meals. Their breakfast served are as I have heard, quite standard. Everyday it is the same. They use a system like the ezlink card for payment to save time. I did not have the card so Ya Ping paid for me.
Xiao Yan Zi chatting away with Mak
LOOK at the Crowd in the canteen!We went back to prepare to set off to WUDANG. I brought minimum clothes and stuffs despite hearing that it would be cold up there=X
OFF TO WUDANG!
We set off at 10am and I slept throughout the ride until the point where we were about to reach the pit stop. The scenery was nice, it was of huge lands with many many acres of farms, rivers and ponds. It goes to show that Agriculture is quite a huge part of the economy in China.
We finally reached the Wudang’s ban shan yao at 4pm+!
After checking into the cool motel( we were quite shocked at the accomodation. For starters, we felt it was quite unsafe as the rooms had lousy window grills and it was worse as a few of us stayed on the ground floor.) It is my 1st time sleeping at a motel. Woa...
The pic by the left is where me, dina, maurice, ivy and Mr Low resides nearby! Our motel room is just beside this dirt track! So dangerous....After placing down our stuffs which and taking our valuables, we went to explore around the area. There were loads of street hawkers and nice food.
The above pictures show the street hawkers at work!At the left, you can see me practicising my QINGGONG. See how I can balance on the roof soo well while striking a pose at the camera:) COOL right! HA! Nah.. Just joking, the roof is actually at the level of the pathway! HA!
One interesting thing happened, the gate to our motel could not be opened after shutting it!
WHAT! The door was stuck!
For the rest of the night, it was super cold! Imagine the room to be soo cold even without the air condition! Too cold to bath and so I din't! HAHA! I wore jeans to slp dint bath.
Day 35- To Wudang's peak!
External outlook of Wudang Shan at the ban shan yao.
Wudang Shan- the land of Taoism
Look at the beautiful clouds. It is freezing okay! HA
They call the buses huan bao ce, environmental friendly buses. Why?
ARHHH! I HATE THE CABLE CAR RIDE. Not only do we have to pay 95rmb, I am also scared of heights:( Was not prepared for this!
See the red streamers from the tree? Those are wishes from the many superstitious people who have believed that the tree is magical. It is like a wishing tree.
Set off 7am to the peak, tour guide said it would be a 1min walk ended up walking for bout 10-15mins
The weather was freezing! We decided to take the cable car up!:(
I’m scared of heights! Have to pay money-50rmb up- We weren’t informed before that.
We went up to the peak of wudang and we were promised to be brought to see the wudang sect but it wasn’t fulfilled.
The peak was seriously painfully cold. Bought tea eggs to warm up.
Ronald hans and wei heng did a divination- bad luck, normal and good luck
Really tempted to try.
Took the photo of the Taoist priest. I was told b4 that we should not take photos of the priests as they believe that their health or years of cultivation to become immortals will be sucked into the camera or smth like that.
Opps I forgot=X
The weather was really great even though it was biting cold at the peak. It did not rain like it did the previous days.
There were great scenic view everywhere. The winding roads and dangerous curves of the road paved along the mountain side made the environmental bus rides scary!!! The lanes are narrow and it is hard to see the other side of the curve when you are turning. I feel that we are fortunate to not have met up with any accidents. 3 huge dangers. 1. There is a open drain at the inner side of the road and the bus may fall in when turning. 2. The outer side of the roads is the cliff and if the bus happens to swerve, we may all say hello to the 1way roller coaster ride to hell. Lastly, if the bus in the opp direction happens to not stop in time and both buses collide(highly likely), it may go down in the above 2 cases.
The food were considerably expensive! At least 20rmb per meal.
I tried Wudang’s tea. There was a lady pouring the tea for us:) It was refreshing and I witness the basics of tea pouring and learnt a little of tea tasting.:) The aftertaste leaves a sweet feeling. Xian ku hou tian. :)
Dina took a video of the tea pouring session. See below:)
We slept at a better hotel! 3stars worth according to china tourism plague on the wall.
Din’t bath. Even colder!! The hot water actually has a time frame from 7.30pm-9pm. Sigh. It seems as though it makes no difference.
The tourguide was wonderful!
Day 36- 30th sept 08
We decided to return back to our hostel as early as possible. 8am we gathered and headed home. Reached at 4pm. In between we slept on the bus which was quite small. Missed the food nearby the hostel. Cheap and good.:)
Rested in the hostel the rest of the day! Took a nice warm bath!!!
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