Day 5
Nothing much had happened. I attended lectures today and we got our first project for forensic science. Tomorrow we will be going to the wudang mountain and i am extremely excited. we will all have to pack lightly as we will have to carry everything ourselves. i am not looking forward to the long bus ride but i am extremely excited to view the beautiful scenery and to take the cable car up to the top of the mountain.
Day 6
We left today for the wudang mountain. the day started early in order to be on time. we took the bus for 5 hours. when we reached, we had lunch. at lunch, my friends and i had come to a realization. the food in china, is extremely salty and also very oily. every dish is this way. the chinese people also dont seem to eat very much meat.
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| An extremely salty fish dish |
After lunch, we then proceeded to visit some of the sites in the area. We had to take the bus up the mountain to get to the various sites. the road was extremely curvy and there were many turns. The first stop for the day was the crown palace slope. it is also known as the fuzhen palace. it was built by the ming emperor yongle. Some famous films were shot there such at the karate kid and also the monkey king.
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| The filming of the karate kid featuring jackie chan and jaden smith |
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| The beautiful walkway up to the temple. |
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| Entrance to the temple |
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| One of the walls inside the temple. the red strings tied to the walls signify good fortune if the person is able to attach their string to the beam without it flying away |
The next place that we visited was the Zi xiao hall. It is said that there are three entrances. the left right and center entrance. the center entrance is only for the emperor and the other two are for ranked officials, etc. however, if you do not hold a rank, you were not allowed to even set foot on the steps to enter the hall.
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| A snake and turtle in the river below the bridge leading to the hall. |
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| The bridge that leads to the entrance of the hall. |
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| A place for the people to burn offerings and incents for the gods |
The construction of these temples simply amazes me as it constantly makes me wonder how it was possible to build all of these beautiful structures without and modern machinery, and also with such precision. after all of this, we checked into a 3 star hotel that was rather nice. there was internet and everything. the view was breathtaking.
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| The hotel that we stayed in |
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| A panoramic view from the hotel. |
Day 7
This is the last day at the wudang mountain. we started the day off by visiting the south cliff palace. It was extremely cold. we had to climb up to the top of the cliff. it is the place where the taoist people went to practice austerities during the tang and song dynasties. there used to be many buildings on the cliff however a huge fire long ago had burned down the majority of them.
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| A building overlooking the cliff next to the south cliff |
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| A lake at the bottom of the cliff. |
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| The main temple at the top of south cliff |
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| One of the smaller temples that contains a turtle god. |
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| The place that used to contain many of the buildings. all thats left after the fire is just the trees and a single walkway |
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| The beautiful walkway leading up to the staircase that will bring you up to the top of the mountain |
The views from the mountain was simply breathtaking. After the south cliff, we proceeded to take the bus to another location where we rode a cable car up to the top of a mountain.
we walked up the mountain to its peak. the air was extremely thin which made the climb even harder then normal.
this trip to the wudang mountain was extremely breathtaking and also very very worth all of the effort to get to all the places.
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