Monday, March 23, 2009
21/03/09 (Day 19)

Our lunch at a hotel. We reached the hotel at around 12+ near 1 pm.

We have finally reached our destination! The bus journey took us approximately 5 hours to reach! It was very tiring for all of us especially the driver. This is the place where the WuDang Mountain entrance tickets were sold.

The entrance to WuDang Mountain. It was very crowded during the weekends. We had to squeeze our way through to board the bus.

This the station whereby we boarded the bus to move on to the next stop of the tour in the mountain.

I'm in love with all these beautiful sceneries. I just like the nature [the trees, the flowers, the mountains and so on]. It gives me a sense of peacefulness. (:

This map shows the various stops of WuDang mMountain. Stop no. 21 is the golden peak [金顶]. I think it is the highest peak of the mountain.

We visited several temples. Anyway, do you still remember? This is my group, group C! I still remembered on the first pre-trip briefing, we're all still strangers [other then Ci Min because we are classmates since year 1]. And through the few briefings, we have got to know one another's names, courses and so on. In the various stages, from strangers to OIP peers and then to being group mates, I have gradually get to know them better such as their hobbies, habits, weaknesses, strengths and more interesting stuffs about them. They are all great people. I'm glad to have met them~

JUMP shot! Many of them like to do jump shots which I don't understand why because I'm lousy at it. :/

Clive being our photographer! Randolph has trained him to take good photos.

All of us were practising martial arts, with Mr Wong as our master! :)

Real martial arts! The master stood at the front and the students followed his instructions strictly. See, most of them were very young!

平安带.

Sign boards are everywhere to remind people to shower the mountain with love such as from fire and from litters.
This is the hotel room in which Fran & I shared for the night. It's very cosy! I hope we can stay longer but we can only stay for one night. Ha ha. The next morning we woke up at 6.30 am to prepare ourselves to walk up the WuDang Mountain. So early~
Basically, for the first day in WuDang Mountain, we visited 3 locations via the buses provided for sightseeing. There were temples, souvenior shops and I saw many little kids selling souveniors along the routes. Hmm, they seemed so young. I wondered whether they're forced to do so under certain circumstances or ?? With the detailed explanation from the tour guides, I get to know more about the meanings behind the structures of the temples and the way they were being built, the religions and beliefs that the people had. Sometimes, I really find them amazing. I was wondering how the people managed to build the temples up on the high and steep mountain, how they constructed the roads and everything else which were on the mountain? I really think it's not an easy task to do so. The people who constructed all those had made a great contribution to the country!
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