Up and down a great big hill

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  Yellow Mountain, Zhejiang, China
Monday, July 7, 2008

It's not a bloody ant hill at all!!
We were up at 5am today so that we could get our 5.30am taxi to the foot of the mountain for a 6.30am start.

We then had a choice. The mountain walk we were doing comes in three parts, up the west, across & up and then down the east. For the up part and the down par, you can use a cable car if you want (by the way, this was another rip off by Geckos - I will explain in my summary at the end of the tour).
Me, Lorna, Jilly & Claire had already decided we wanted to walk the lot (7.5km up, 10km across & up, 7.5km down). We actually did 12km at the top due to an unforeseen detour! All the rest of the group got the cabble car up, saving themselves about 2 hours.

Team A & Team C

I have got to say the walking up part is hard work, but there are some fabulous views and it is really satisfying when you reach what you think is the top, in one peace. The reason it's not the top is because the across bit is actually also up!
There were some really tough bits, especially after walking the first section as well. We sometimes had to keep ourselves going with singalongs and many A-Z games including Countries, Cities, Capital Cities, Animals, Names, Rude words, Music Artists etc etc.
Some of the views we saw had some weird names as well like "Heavenly Dog Watching the Moon", "The Peacock Playing the Lotus", "Turtle Carrying Gold Turtle" and "Zhubajie Eating the Waremelon". Fascinating stuff.
During this walk, the girls also decided that sweaty Chinese men smell like sperm! I have no idea how that conversation got started at all!
When we got to the Jade Screen Station, which is the start of our descent, we actually caught up with the rest of the group which had used the cable car - we had made up 2 and a half hours on them! Bloody lightweights!
Anyway, including all our stop offs for photo's and our breakfast & lunch breaks, the 4 of us completed the full trek in 8.5 hours, so we were back at the bottom for 3pm. We were very happy, but aching people. A shower and long bath were the order of the day.
We went out for something to eat in the evening as it was Maddy's birthday. This is where International relations were put to the test as we explained that England is the major country and that Australia, Canada & the USA are just satelitte branches of our empire!! That started off some interesting conversations!
After winning the argument on many occasions we decided to hit the sack as everyone was knackered.

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Maddy's birthday	International Dining	It's all about to kick off	Jackie
Dining	On the way up	Yellow Mountain Views	Having a well earned break
Yellow Mountain Views	Yellow Mountain Views	Looking OK half way up	Bit sweaty dear!
Are we super-imposed?	Claire chilling	Yellow Mountain Views	Ontop of the World...almost
Tree	Yellow Mountain Views	Yellow Mountain Views	GROUP ON TOP OF THE WORLD!!
Yellow Mountain Views	Still alive at the top	Yellow Mountain Views	Yellow Mountain Views
Yellow Mountain Views	Panoramic Yellow Mountain Views	Yellow Mountain Views	It's a long way down
Don't jump!	Yellow Mountain Views	Time for lunch	Oh God....Lorna's reading the map!
Giz a lift!	Observatory at the top	Yellow Mountain Views	Yellow Mountain Views
It's a tight squeeze	Lemmings	Still breathing	This is what they all come to see
It's the main attraction apparently

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