Shilin Hotel Huangshan

... ride shorter", well it is because the bus can take a direct route while the train can't because it wasn't built that way. To cut a long story of a lot of waiting behind, we made it back, but I have developed a nasty cold (H1N1 anyone...ha, yeah right) as a result of the freezing tent night, oh well.

Well I hope everyone is well, but is 1:34 am here and I must say 再见.

PS - I noticed I have 159 views...wow I broke 100!!!

... It’s like American prices or worse than American prices.

I thought yesterday was really dream like because it was the cloudiness. You couldn’t see very far. But then there was an unreal drop, like a 500 foot drop. All that was keeping me from this was a really low railing that hardly did any good. I didn’t think about death much, because it didn’t feel like I was going to fall off at any moment. But it was pretty crazy ...

... people live in town are mostly doing tourist business. A lady with her husband run the place, they were very friendly and helpful for my trip to Huangshan. They guilded me to the bus station to the mountain, drew a map with recommended must see spot, booked hotel for me for stay overnight in the mountain with a fairly cheap price.

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... I can't beat that..)
I spent 2 days climbing the pics - a painful step/stairs business with hundreds of Chinese (all in organized groups) taking the cable car and getting a picture of themselves, very proud, in front of the summit with their brand new trekking gears!!
Scenery was probably the best thing I've seen in China so far. I stayed overnight in the Mountains ...

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... gave in and went to the Cave 24 ticket box and asked where I could find it and the girls reply was that I had to pay another fifty Yuan and take a boat ride and she then pointed to the ten Yuan sign. I hope I am wrong but didn’t bother trying to find out as I still had a few more caves to go through but I think it will cost an ...

... Also, the geographical structures and the folk customs of the area are in many ways similar to the state described by Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Jin dynasty, in his famous article "Tao Hua Yuan Narration".

"Tao Hua Yuan" is an ideally perfect place for living on earth, a Chinese Utopia.
Within this Utopia can be found the ancient villages of Xidi and Hongcun.

Both ...

... hand side of the train station (if you are in front of the station) as it was a huge room with a huge bay window and I was more than happy with the price when I compared it to my rooms in Shandong Province. After doing my hand washing and a shower I headed out into the steamy night in search of some delicious noodles. I thought the city was actually bigger ...

... and warming - and yet the middle aged women in China are some of the meanest, coldest, loudest and emptiest people I've ever had glare at me (I have some theories but if anyone wants to help me on this phenomenon that would be great - also wondering if I should expect my gal to become a complete hag or not ;P ). But we eventually made it back to Huangshan and I was... very hungry (my gal would later decide that I'm extremely ***** when ...

... scarce. The Chinese have a different concept of a retreat to nature than we do. We found the brief moments of solitude to be mere eyeblinks compared to the normalcy of being surrounded by droves of Chinese tour groups divided into teams of matched-hats and characterized by a need to wear clothing that looked entirely unsuitable for any sort of moutaineous terrain (including high heels, dress pants galore, and fashion boots ...