Hua Shan Mountain

Trip Start Mar 22, 2008
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Hua Shan mountain is a sacred mountain for the Chinese. Many Chinese climb the mountain as a pilgrimage and some even walk down the mountain backwards as part of that pilgrimage. This is crazy as some of the steps are practically vertical.

I set out early from Xi'an to tackle the sacred mountain. Met Philippa from Australia on the bus. We teamed up for the climb. It's not like a proper trek as there is steps almost all the way up this mountain but the steps are so steep in places that my calves were aching for days afterwards. The view from the top (when we made it) was not great, fairly misty and hazy, a typical Chinese view! Still managed to get some decent pictures. Nearly killed myself coming down some of the steep steps. There are solid handrails to hold on to on the way down, if these were not there I'm certain there would be regular fatalaties. Hopefully the pictures show hos steep these steps were!
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