Beginning of TunXi ancient street from the Song Dynasty
A beautiful cable car ride down from the mountain.
Carrying laundry up the mountain.
Climbing to the peak.
Enjoying the view.
Laura's photo of the sunrise (6:15 am)Today started with a hike up to "Monkey over Sea of Clouds" peak to watch the sunrise. Laura and I were the only ones to make that hike! We got back in time for breakfast, then we were off for our 3 hour hike. Everywhere we went was beautiful but we were all glad to get back to the hotel for lunch and rest our feet.
It is incredible to think that everything on this mountain is carried up by hand - they are building a 5 star hotel up at the peak, and we saw many men carring bags of cement, tiles, etc. All the food is also brought up, and the laundry brought down for washing to minimize the effect on the environment.
The menu here is quite limited compared to what we've seen so far, but the kids managed on a lot of rice as they weren't up to eating beef organs and bamboo shoots! After lunch, we hired porters to take our luggage to the cable car, then we were off on another one hour hike. The cable car ride was down the south side of the mountain this time, and was just as spectacular. We were happy to see the bus at the end of this ride down, and were off to TunXi, an ancient town (1000 years old from the Song dynasty) for a tea ceremony, shopping and dinner in the market. Our flight to Shanghai was at 10 pm, and we arrived in our hotel rooms around 12:30 am.
We were pleased to see the hotel was quite luxurious - a big difference from last night, as the Bei Hai hotel at the peak was pretty minimal and the only heat was 30 year old electric blankets :-)
It is incredible to think that everything on this mountain is carried up by hand - they are building a 5 star hotel up at the peak, and we saw many men carring bags of cement, tiles, etc. All the food is also brought up, and the laundry brought down for washing to minimize the effect on the environment.
The menu here is quite limited compared to what we've seen so far, but the kids managed on a lot of rice as they weren't up to eating beef organs and bamboo shoots! After lunch, we hired porters to take our luggage to the cable car, then we were off on another one hour hike. The cable car ride was down the south side of the mountain this time, and was just as spectacular. We were happy to see the bus at the end of this ride down, and were off to TunXi, an ancient town (1000 years old from the Song dynasty) for a tea ceremony, shopping and dinner in the market. Our flight to Shanghai was at 10 pm, and we arrived in our hotel rooms around 12:30 am.
We were pleased to see the hotel was quite luxurious - a big difference from last night, as the Bei Hai hotel at the peak was pretty minimal and the only heat was 30 year old electric blankets :-)
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