Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Day 2 of Huangshan

Aft admiring the Nat Geo scenery for all too long ( supp to be back at the hotel@7am) but at 6.45am we were just leaving the top), we hurried down tog w a german couple (the guy was like 2.04m) n 2 yr3 undergrads frm China Univ n their parent+aunt. Reaching the hotel, we saw the rest of the tour gp already ready for the mornin trek.

Side tracking a little, the hotel we stayed on the 1st nite was located between 2 mountains so its covered frm the crazy winds. The lobby was the highest floor n u had to go down to reach ur room. The 5 of us took the cheapest rm which fitted 6 but we paid for the person space. Cramped was the word to use for the rm but cosy. No need for air-con cause its frezzing, n the sheets r wet cause of the high humidity n cold winds. Also u only can shower b/w 7pm-830pm with hot water (unless u champion la than u can shower in the O-so cold water.

So we began our journey n were warned that it was gg to b a 4hr trek(n tats aft we jus returned frm our scaling 天都峰 1810m...)...The journey was supp to begin at 5plus but because of weather problems it was shifted to 7am. Even thou it was still early, the place was alr flooded with pple on Sat. So lots of time was spent Q'in to walk frm place to place, add to it a killer fog descending amt our mist n we were unable to see much. The tour guide brought us to 光明顶,n say 不到光明顶,没看黄山景. Pity the fog if not we would have seen really power view!!! So we were heng tat we managed to even see any Nat Geo scenery at 天都峰.

Than when other attractions...but basically when u come to Huang shan is to see rocks!!! Ya really dumb but the rocks are really nice...n the water crystal clear like maldives like tat...than visited this tea appreciation shop; learnt abt diff teas n how u shld take 3sips to finish ur tea cause 一口,两口是吕 but 三口是品. Ya not many pple know right...
Also visited this snake oilment shop. Tried snake poison of a viper in 90% plus alcohol. Shiok n think it cured my cough for the day. No side effects of fever even. Than tried to other alcohol w snake in the bottle also. One tasted like yomeishu than the other jus tasted bad...haha

Than last day was basically boring. Nice pics would b up soon...

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