Day 6 - 22nd Dec 2012
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| Mount ErMei |
Today woke up super early again (everyday woke up early, much earlier than work days...hohohoho). We went down to the hotel's restaurant after getting ready for our buffet breakfast. Ahh...oily food for breakfast again..nothing much and nice to eat too...We saw Annie they all and sat with them for breakfast, we also asked them whether their toilet in their room smells...kekeke...Apparently theirs too, and the heater was also strong, which the room too warm. Had to open window to sleep. Their room was near to the lift, they could even hear people outside pulling luggage and talking..lol...And they told us their experience on their full body massage the night before. So funny, it was not a good and disappointed experience for them..hohoho..
After breakfast, we all boarded the bus to set off to Mount Er Mei.The tour guide gave us an introduction on the 4 scared mountains and the 4 Great Bodhisattva in China (for Buddhism). These are:
1. Er Mei Shan - House of Puxian Bodhisattva
2. Wutai Shan - House of Wen Shu Bodhisattva (Bodhisattva of Wisdom)
3. Putuo Shan - House of Guan Yin Bodhisattva (Bodhisattva of Compassion)
4. JiuHua Shan - House of Dizhang Bodhisattva (taking care of the afterlife beings in hell realms)
Then the tour guide also told us the 4 weird sights in Er Mei Shan -> Sunrise, Fu Guang (really needs to depend on your luck), Ermei Monkeys (very brown and super big) and frogs sounded like singing.
We reached the mouth of Er Mei Shan at around 8 plus (going to 9am), then we went for a toilet break while the tour guide went to get out tickets. The tour guides later distributed out the tickets to us and we went in to wait for a mini bus to go up to somewhere near to the top (It is a 2 hour ride up there and we still need to take a few mins cable car ride up to top summit). So we went up the bus and went off..We stopped a shop halfway after 1 hour late, in the shop, they sell Lingzhi too, big big ones. Then we continued the way up..the bus stopped after some time, to put chains underneath the bus as the road is having ice on it. Then the bus continued moving up...We also put on the so-called to prevent slipping socks over our shoes. It felt like normal socks (costs RMB$20 for a pair), anyway we just put on.
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| ErMei Monkey |
Finally it reached, we all got off and it started to snow. Then we started to climb a very long stairs to walk up to the cable car entrance. On the way, we saw stalls selling gloves, anti-slip socks, corns, sausages, etc and monkeys. The monkeys are very big and people are throwing fruits to them to eat. The tour guide had told us that the monkeys are very fierce there and tend to snatch tourists' bags if they see you open your bag and digging to take something out. And even plastic bags, they may even snatch it from your hands if you are carrying them. But when we saw the monkeys, they are busy eating their food and a lot of people were trying to take photos of them. Then we continued to climb up, so tiring and it was very cold..the stairs are slippery too as some of them are already frozen with ice. Finally reached cable car entrance after 1 hour later, we went in. The cable car was so cramped with people (luckily it was only for a few mins...). Then we reached and alighted, we even bought some sausages to eat, got hungry. Nice to eat in old weather...kekeke..There is another type of hot dog..smells good, luckily we didn't buy it cos later we got to know it was ma la flavored hot dog. Christina's family they bought and they were all saying very ma...tongues cannot feel anything liao..hahaha...We continued to walk up to the golden summit, but when we really reached the golden summit, it was a super white scene greeting us. The fog had covered all the temples and statues. Cannot see anything beyond, everything was white. Cannot even see the giant golden PuXian Statue..i can only see the 4 elephants at the below, managed to see the bronze and sliver temples though. Didn't went up to see the golden temple, but we went to light the candles to wish for families' health...When i came out, i saw a group of people taking photos of the mini elephants around the giant Puxian statue. One of them was really an idiot, he was standing on top of the mini elephants and posing to take photo. Our tour guide saw that, and went over, politely asked him to come down as the elephants are also scared. When he did that, whatever good he did was gone. hohohoho....Then i continued to make my way downhill to the cable car station for meetup, near the cable car station, there was a stall selling locks for wishes. You can buy the locks, write down your wishes and lock it there. While waiting for the others in the cable car station, we bought some food to eat...still hungry...lol....
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| Skiing Ground |
After everyone had arrived, we made our way to the cable car and waited for the car to come. After waiting for 5 mins, it came and everyone was forcing their way up to the car. Again it was packed with people...haiz...the car went down and when you see outside, the whole place was super white..We arrived and alighted from the car, some of the people wanted to take the sedan downhill, my friend also took it..hohoho...It was a sedan carried by 2 person and instead of you do the walking down the stairs, they carry you down for a price of RMB$220. But they were fast..i was still slowly climbing down the stairs, they were already gone from our sights. The stairs were really slippery, as some ice was formed, i almost slipped a few times. Was grabbing on the sides to help climb down...also saw people slipped when climbing the stairs. The tour leader told us that he last time brought a group here, the stairs were actually covered with ice, they literally needed to slide down to get down. And the people there actually put water to let the stairs covered with ice, so that they can sell those socks to walk on ice. I finally reached at the bottom of the stairs after 20 mins later...kekeke..feeling tired already....Then we went for our lunch...many dishes...and with fried egg omelette (having omelette for days and for every lunch and dinner...lol). After lunch, the group was split..one group to go skiing and the other to go back to hotel. My friend and me went for the skiing, then the tour guide took us to the skiing place. We didn't play..just watching other people play. Bought sausages to eat again..hahaha....My friend went to hide inside the rental house with Annie, then i went to take photos around with Annie' friend. After 1 hour, finally can leave the place..cold cold and nothing to do there...our tour leader brought some of us down to the main entrance first while those playing will stay on...My friend and Annie were so fast in getting out of the place, mi and Annie's friend were calling loudly from behind, but they didn't hear us shouting..hahaha..in the end, we just walked and hope the 2 of them will stop at the top of the stairs to wait up..hohoho....
As we were walking up, we heard the song that was sung during the Zhan Zu's performance.hohoho....the road was white color (already covered with snow)...then we waited for a while for the tour leader to come..then we walked down to the car park to take the bus downhill..which is a 2 hrs ride again...soo sleepy, almost fall asleep in the bus...Finally we reached the mouth of Mount Ermei and we got on our tour bus (bus B). The tour leader told us we need to wait for those still up there skiing..so in the meantime, the driver played a movie for us to kill time..it was a china movie, a comedy (stupid one...kekeke)...Finally the rest appeared, we went back to the hotel for dinner and to rest for the day.
To be cont'd.....
Places visited:
1. Mount ErMei
Hotel Stayed:
Jiajiang Venie Hotel
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