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wudang mountain

SATURDAY

its was our third weekend trip since coming to wuhan. and this time around our destination was wudang mountain. DAY 19, which was saturday, we took the tour bus at 7am and had a 5hrs plus bus ride to wudang mountain.














lunch at a restaurant

after lunch we proceeded to start our tour on the attractions in wudang mountain. had to take the internal wudang shan bus to get to all the different tourist spots. and the bus ride was quite exciting because the roads are all very narrow and there are alot of turns and blind spots. Our first stop was the 太子坡 (the prince temple), whr children who wants to have good grades come and pray.



then, we went to the紫霄宫 purple heaven palace.


see how far in between each attraction?

basically oso temples there but one interesting sight is that when we were there, there is this class of sudents learning wudang martial arts. seems pretty cool and make me feel lyk learning also. By the way for both "the price temple" and "purple heaven palace", we have to climb up quite a few flight of stairs. training us for the wudang mountain hike i guess??


the flight of stairs


the temple where its very crowed inside


learning wudang martial arts.

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as usual, we were rushing for time so din't have time to look around and purchase anything. head off to 南岩(the southern grotto palace) nxt.

had to go uphill again..


to reach here.
so basically we had our serious "warm up" for the next day at this third attraction because there were alot of stairs to cover. but it was all worth it because there were lot of nice spots to take great pictures!



at the end of the staircases, there will sometimes be young children selling mayb some food or special whistles. at times, its seems really tempting to buy from them because the children have that innocent and pitiful look on their faces. from what i see, i really think that the children in singapore are really fortunate. they have shelter above their heads with 3 full meals a day and a top class education.but the sad thing is that alot of people in singapore take what they have for granted.

reached some place and as usual pictures taking session again.



one interesting sight at alot of spots is that there will be this 大水缸 with a dragon head at the bottom. and lots of ppl will drop coins in and try to have their coins land nicely on the dragon head, which would therefore means good luck. what kinda shock me a little is that beside every big water tank, there will be this booth for ppl to exchange for coins. A waste of money?

after our tour. we went to have dinner at the same restaurant. proceeded to check in to a local hotel after dinner. according to our tour guide, the hotel we are staying in is the best around.
dinner.
hotel. (=