Friday, October 24, 2008

Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) pics

We went on our first Chinese road trip over the recent October holiday (which is sort of the Chinese 4th of July). We drove about 6 hours to a place called Huangshan. This is a very famous tourist destination for Chinese. Many a contemplative Chinese poem has been written about the place over the centuries. Its a mountainous place that sort of reminds me of Yosemite. Lots of exposed granite. Anyway, unlike Yosemite, you can take a cable car to the top of different sections of the park. It was sort of a crazy place to take little kids since the paths are very narrow and carved into fairly steep cliffs so someone small and wiggly could be in trouble, but we made it and they loved it.

2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

Wow! Sounds like a great trip, wish we could have come!......maybe next time!

Anonymous said...

hi Chris!
wow, STUNNING mountains--i've always wanted to see these mtns. nice to see pix of your family!
congratulations on the move to Vancouver!
-young