Jiujiang Hotel

... end it than laid back Lu Shan.
Sadly though I allowed others thoughts and experiences make it shorter than I would have liked.

One day on Lu Shan was not enough for me but I did get to take in many of the sites but would rather have done it at a much slower pace and kicked back for a few evenings with a beer or two in the beautiful colonial mountain village that was once a British summer retreat. For those ...

... rather remote and secluded. The monastery was quite prosperous during the Tang Dynasty (AD618-907), and there were more than 300 halls and rooms at that time. Being the major sermon place of Buddhism for a long time, Donglin Monastery established its fame and prestige firmly. Jian Zhen (AD688-763), a dignitary of the Tang Dynasty, rested at the Donglin Monastery after his fifth failure to travel to Japan. During his stay, he and the ...

... by about seventy six centimeters.

Wave Well (Lang Jing)

I couldn’t find the Wave Well and have added it to this page so that other travelers know that it does exists. I tried to find it but no matter who I spoke to or where I went no one seemed to either understand me or know that it actually exists.

The Wave Well (Lang Jing) is said to be the most ancient relic ...

... to the bus window as we slowly passed along the side of the huge inner city lake area.

Honestly I even grabbed my LP out again to make sure I hadn’t missed any information on this city.

When I arrived at the inner city bus station I grabbed some bus times to Lushan and then headed out to find a hotel along what I found to be the cities main street, Xunyang Lu. I ...

... was carrying to go containers so we asked him where we should eat. He told us Stone Ox, which didn’t really help since it was in Chinese, but he gave us great directions. It was pretty busy so we had to wait for a table. There was a Chinese couple there and the wife spoke a little English. Then their daughter came out and spoke really good English. We were talking for a little bit and a table was ready. They invited us to join ...

... i have walked at least 70 kelomiters in 3 days so im very tired on the second day it started to rain very hevely and the roads turned into rivers it was quite amazing to see that much water was like a flash flood

anyways i am going to wuhan after hear

take care

peter xxx

... of Chinese, and we all remarked about the number of visitors, but our local guide said that this was a slow day. We felt that the lines at Disney World paled in comparison. Then it was back to the bus for our trip to the hotel. Our guide offered us a visit to a market to see how the Chinese shop for food, we had seen this before but decided to go again. The food is all very fresh with live everything, from frogs to quails.

... any animal there and sell most of them alive (more details: see the gallery) - and watch children go to school and muster in the morning (unsure about correct wording here). Since Jiujang isn't a too large city and since its people welcomed me so warmly, this unscheduled stop left various beautiful memories from this journey. These kinds of impressions were what I sought for when deciding for backpacking through CHina the way I did.

... and some of the local kids did a little song etc for us - then we had to join in some playground type games - typically, Rach was the first to be picked out by the kids - very funny ! After a quick tour of the village, we headed back to our families for yet more food (We could barely face it) and then said farewell and headed off to climb the Taishan mountain (Spelling prob not right)- still not showered either ! The mountain climb was hard work ...

When one thinks of China, certain images pop into the head. Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) is one of those images- sheer cliffs from which sprout twisted green pines, the kind of stuff one sees in Chinese scroll paintings. The four of us booked a hotel at the top of the mountains so that we could see the sunrise. John and I geeked out talking about computer stuff while we hiked ...