Car City Hotel Shiyan
4 Youth Square Shiyan, Hubei, China
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Embracing The Universe
... ridiculous prices for something that was just going to sit around my room to remind me that I’d been to China. I decided instead to get something that actually WAS authentic, according to Joanne’s inspection and what the shopkeepers told her. However, the item I selected is a surprise gift for a certain little humming bird back home, so I’m afraid I can’t reveal what it is here. She’ll know come August though.
After our first experience ...
Karate Kid side trip
During the one week break in between sessions I went with a group of people to Wudang Shan. It is a mountain with a Daoist temple at the top and it is also where they shot the movie the karate kid (the most recent one). It was just a few of us that went and no one had ever been to this mountain before, not even the professors, so it was a hit or miss type of trip. We got there by train. The first train wasn't that ...
The True East
... abroad peers. They wished for the end of the journey, not to walk the arduous path that was meant to yield the reward of spiritual revelation. Their primary concern was the destination, not the adventure, and this mentality is what has kept us in separate realms from day one. I have resolved to adventure much more by myself and with the sole company of Malachi in the near future.
Still, I must admit that this is a very minor complaint, and, having never taken a ...
Wonderous Wudang Shan - The Journey
... including myself, and we were all riding without much food in our bellies or rest in our heads. I took a bit of time to watch the movie Machete, which is epic as hell by the way, and, after a long and weary ride, we finally arrived at a train station in the rural outskirts of Wuhan around noon.
When we arrived, the first place we ventured to was the ticket off to see when and where we could get tickets for Wudang Shan. We stood in line for a bit, and saw a man ...
PLEASE no more steps!!!
... to pay her, so kindly said sorry and that she was wasting her time.
So after asking around, we paid our entrance fee, which included buses up, down and around the mountain, climbed on the bus and headed up towards the top and just hoped there was going to be somewhere to stay up there.
The road up was so windy, it was quite funny – leaning on each other round the bends... They had really skilled bus drivers. Some local people couldn't handle ...



