Sunday, September 21, 2008

Day 27 and 28

Trip to Wudang Mountain

Over the weekends, we went up to Wudang. It was a 5hours trip up to the gate, which is the foot of the mountain. The scenery there was great and the experience i have there is awesome, something i never experience before. After buying the tickets, we sat a internal tour bus up to the mid of Wudang. From there, we start our trek of the day to visit different temples. The photos taken will express my feelings up there:) After which, we took the internal tour bus to somewhere even higher. The moment we reached, our vision is blurred by the fog, mist and clouds! It's damn cool and rather cold. When we breathe out, mist can be seen. This sort of view can only be seen during winter but we managed to experience it now:) The only bad part is that our tour guide did not inform us that it will be so cold and many of us did not bring a sweater up; we were so cold but we managed to endure it:) I love the feeling of being in the middle of the clouds!!! After this, we went downhill to have dinner and proceed to our hotels of the day. The arrangement of the hotel rooms is screwed up by the tour agency's tour guides. They seriously have no customers pirority in mind and no standard of service, especially the bus driver!!!Angry!!! Luckily the standards of the hotel is still not that bad:) A plus point for them.

The next day we had to wake up at 630am for breakfast and set off at 7. We were only a few minutes late and they scolded us:( Something heart aching happened:( The tour guide then told us that we must meet back at the bus which is at the foot of the mountain by 12pm. The entire group of 100 is split into 30:70, where 30 of us will be taking the cable car up and the other 70 will trek up. It was so cold so i decided to take the cable car up:) Before boarding the cable car, we must first take the internal tour bus up to the station which took 30 mins and when we reached the station, we must still queue for it and we queued for nearly 2hours! By the time we reach the place we are going to get to for the day, it was already 11. There, we must still wait for all to arrive, both the cable car people and the trekking people. From there with the huge crowd, we must still trek up a distance to reach the peak of the mountain. It was a total mess when we go back down. We had to queue for the limited number of internal tour buses to get us back to the foot of the mountain. And by the time we reach our own tour bus it was already 3 plus. The bus driver, thinking we don't know chinese, critisized us, Singaporeans. We were so pissed. It was the tour agency fault for not planning the whole trip well and he dont' even know the situation up there. Forget about those unhappiness, lets enjoy the photos taken for this trip.


I am at Tian Xia Ming Shan:)



















WUDANG SHAN:)




















This is the first place we visit on the first day.. It is somewhere in the mid of Wudang.















Group A with Master SHIFU!!!
















I love the background:) although nothing much can be seen..




















"Fu" and "Shou" which i would like my family, friends and myself to have:) both luck and longevity!




















A rather big building with a well in front of in:)















Once again, i love the background:) Me and Teck Yi!
















Hotel! Looks not bad right:)



















Big toilet with toilet bowl!!!
















Cable car in the clouds:) Quite cool when u can't see a lot of things lol..




















2 to a cable car cabin:) I hate my round face:(



















Clearer view when we go above the clouds and the heat from the sun is burning!




















Pretty isn't it???




















First checkpoint after alighting from the cable car:)















I like the view here too:)
















2nd checkpoint before i make it to the top:) Clouds!
















Group A:)
















This is our final destination:)The peak of Wudang Mountain!!! It's called "Jin Ding"; Golden Peak. The roof of this building behind me is made up of GOLD!! It's a temple.
















This is a lock that i bought and have my family name carved on it. The purpose of it is to lock it at somewhere around the Jin Ding so that your family, or the person specified will be blessed:)















This is to marked my submit to the peak:)




















In the cable car cabin on our way down:)




















I love the background:)
















As memories:)















This is my last pic with "Hergrey" before helping her to bath and blowing her dry. She passed away on Wudang Mountain on 21st Sept and buried there. Rest In Peace, in memories of a cute little bunny.



















Overall, i enjoyed the trip to Wudang mountain, not taking into considerations that the travel agency arrangements were unsatisfactory and the untolerable bus driver:)

*Why do they seems like they don't care when i miss them so much:( i miss my granny after what happened today that reminds me of her T_T

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