Back to blogging after a month-long trip to Xinjiang!
It'll probably be a month or two before we can sort through the thousands of photos we took there, so we'll just continue with Day 2 on Mount Hua.
One thing to be said about the hostel on Mount Hua that we spent the night at - the stone wall against which my bed was placed was actually the mountain itself!
We got up at about 5am to catch the sunrise from the eastern peak.
Beautiful isn't it?
You're probably not fooled... It was a very foggy morning, we couldn't see the sun, only clouds.
We took this photo in front of a poster at another hostel.
Here are the real sunrise photos:
We continued to scale the southern and western peaks.
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| Southern Peak: At 2154.9m, it's Mount Hua's highest peak |
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| Western Peak: 2086.6m |
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| More cloudy views |
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| A huge tilted rock. Guess what's holding it up... |
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| ... little twigs! |
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| Mountain flowers |
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| The air in the water expanded in the low altitude. |
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| This has become Daan's favourite joke about my poor Chinese. It's supposed to be read from right to left. I read it from left to right. 山河好大 did sound rather strange when I read it out loud at first, more like something I would say than some Chinese literary great. |
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| Spotted in the mountain forest: A leaping crane |
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| Haha! |
We made our way down the mountain by about lunch time.
It was a tiring but happy climb!
I would have read it from left to right, too. It seems to make more sense.
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