It was a short distance from my hotel to the station, but we waited as long as 1 hour at the station there as there was some miscommunication between our travel agent and the ticket counter there.
I was a bit frustated and disappointed with the service. Our tour guide seems did not do much on this case, and they just stand on a side, making some phone call once in 10 minutes or so. After that 1 hour of waiting time, we finally had the chance to board the bus from the terminal and went to another station - Prince Hill station to change another bus to the Cable car station. We will be taking cable car to the peak of the Wudang Mountain.
I took the cable car with Kuan. It was a 2 person cable car, $115 each, return. A 25 minutes single-trip. The cable car was a bit old and I somehow feeling uncomfortable with it, but I am strong enough to endure the challange. Upon reaching the peak, we have to climb up a "few" stairs to get to the highest point of the mountain, which is also known as the Golden Roof aka 金顶
Nothing much but scenery and some meaningful stories/legends of the Gods at the Wudang Mountain. I was again dismay as I expect to see some Taoist/Taiji actions but in the end, I only saw those Taoist standing by the stall selling things, in the temple belling the bell, and at the entrance counting tickets. =SAfter a visiting a few nice places at the peak of the mountain, we took the cable car down again. My return trip was with Baohui. Upon touching ground, we took another bus and went back to the Prince Hill station.
Walked for about 10 minutes, we reached another place. The most interesting part of this trip is nothing else but the 1 column 12 beams. Being a CEE student, I will definitely feel guilty for not uploading the picture of the column. In pic, it was the 5th level in the building, which means, there are 3 more similar branches of beams out in the other levels.
After the Prince Hill, we set off to the bus and had dinner at about 630pm. Not forgetting to tell you, we just had our "lunch" at 3pm as soon as we touched ground from the return trip of cable car. After the dinner, we went to 襄樊 (襄城+樊城), for the trip next day. This time, we stayed in a very good hotel, with free internet access! The speed was so amazing that it was faster than in Singapore. 600mb in 2 minutes, about 8mbyte per second!
Me and Jianwen shared a same room. Kuan, Xiujin and Eileen came to my room and we chatted till about 2pm. Then, they went back to their own room and rest.
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