Day 2: 28/12/2007

woke up at 6am to prepare to leave by 830

total crap..

all the days that ive been here, ive been eating the same,exact stuff

guess they have those few dishes to offer in the mountain and country areas.

this is our tour group's bus

kinda old looking both on the outside and inside

actually its only 6 months old...

todays journey was to travel to '海螺沟-heiluogou'

the journey is expected to be from 830am TO 830pm

woots and there u have it

today's trip...lol

Day 4: 29/12/2007

reached 海螺沟, '长征大酒店-The Long March Hotel'

inside the main lobby is a big potrait of MAO ZE DONG and a picture showing the red army crossing luding brigde, which is damn cool

again, we've to wake up very early at 530

ate breakfast in 20 mins and off we are to the foot of the mountain

theres this big temple thats so magnificent where our bus parked

inside the temple is a hotel called the temple hotel, rofl

the waiting time for the bus up the mountain was really long

the mean time, took alot of pictures with stupid translations which i will show at the last post, all of it
the bus up the mountain was also VERY long

the total travelling time up half the mountain was 2 hours...

finally there was some signs of snow, real ones

it was snowing flakes, beautiful

it tasted sweet, really sweet

after that short toilet break

the journey up continued

ok forget it

the whole trip was practically the same as the 2 pictures above
there were 4 bases along the way up the mountain

just now the place where the toilet break was is the 2nd base

when we reached the 3rd base

AHH COLD! - 12 deg C

crazy lah, making worst is the strong wind

if your there i tell you your face is gone

took a cable car up to the 4th base

this is where the real thing is

a signboard telling you what im seeing

from the cable car

from an outpost at the cable car station of the 4th base

it was REALLY beautiful, so beautiful

read the signboard above the know about the glacier

after a mere 10 mins

i ran off to the cablecar station, cmi the cold

bought a glass of wulong and chysantamum tea, and some oil fried bread

the old man managing the tea shop was kind

he let me in the counter and share the fire with me(its at my feet)

but it was of effect at all, still freezing

at bout 230pm, we went down to the 2nd base to enjoy our lunch(same food again..)

theres a hot spring beside the hotel where we were having our lunch

the day ended on yet another bus trip down the mountain and back to the hotel

rest of the night was tv