First day of 虎跳峡 - 云南 - 中国-

Okie....

we slpt at abt 12am plus 1am like that in lijiang and we need to wake up at 3.30am the next morning... know why?

hahaha....

because we want to skip the entrance fee of the 虎跳峡 ... by reaching there early in the morning (way before the entrance man/lady start working), we manage to skip it....



when we just reached...... pitch dark....



okie... slightly brighter... haha...

okie... so when the sun get up, we started the long long climb....

haha... okie... i admit it was really tiring for me.... mmmmm... it might be due to the lack of slp? it might be due to the lack of exercising? or it might be due to my super heavy bag.. it was damn heavy manx.. omg...

while i was climbing, i swore to myself, i wun climb it again! hahah... omg.. it was that tiring for me... esp the upslope...

but the scenary was definitely worth the climb man... nice scenary....



yeah start of our climb! the worse is yet to come... hahah...



mmm... dunno what river is it... 金沙江..confirmed by jian ming...



haha..captured by my sis.. a cow admiring the scenary



on our way to the top..... it was only 7.30 am like that only lo... omg... abt 5 more hours to the top!



the teeny weeny road up to the top....



shack look...okie.. maybe im the only one.. that the 代价 of not exercising consistently..



okie... the first milestone.... at 8.30am....



someone kindly provided those information for us... okie...accordingly, we need 3 hours to teahorse guest house, 5 hours to halfway guest house and 7 hours to tina's guest house.. our original plan was to tina's... and we reached that map at 8.45am... so 7 more hours to go... dun think it is possible because we still need to have our breakfast and lunch....



okie... reached the place for us to take our breakfast...



.... the infamous 28 bends in 虎跳峡... one of the bends...



okie...saw a line that cuts across the mountain? the line is the road that we will be walking in dunno how many minutes time...



yeah.. happier... hahaha.. know why? cos i exchanged bags with kester (the last one in that photo)haha... can u tell that he is the only one who looked shack now... hahah.....mmm...i have one who keeps muttering words of encouragement behind me... and the last 2 who always walks the last so that my sis and i do not lag behind...



saw another thin line at the mountain? scary isnt it... omg...



yeah! finally reached the top! u need to finish the 28 bends to reach the top! that's where the chinese saying 先苦后甜 comes in because the view is magnificant... not to say the view while we are climbing up...



yeah.. another milestone of ours..



any idea why are there so many vehicles there? because.... the tour group brought the tourists to see the 虎跳石... the stone over there is not a real one according to jian ming (will show u guys the real one later at the next entry... we will reach it!) .. anyway, that stone over there is just a stone that roll down from the mountain..ehx.. but that sound a bit scary right.. imagine such a big stone rolling down from the mountain...



wa...doesnt this photo look like a postcard photo??? click on it to enlarge it! it's nicer!



postcard photo number 2! click on it!



postcard photo number 3! click click click....



yeah... group photo number 3 = milestone no 3! at 2.45 pm...



waterfall! filling up our water bottles and enjoying the coolness of the waterfall...



the guest houses in 虎跳峡 are all with nice view... with the clear blue sky and the mountain as backdrop... it's hard not to be beautiful...



okie...im fainting...



magnificant isnt it ???



i think this pix just show again how magnificant is it...click on it click on it!!



climb and climb and climb non-stop



i think this is nice...



yeah! finally reached.. halfway guest house... not tina's.. haha..too tired....



okie... dun be envy... that's the view we get when we woke up in the morn.. how i wish i have this view every morn...



hahah..there's a 爽死你天台... okie.. it is really "爽"死你 or maybe 冷死你 cos of the cold wind that just blow non stop..omg...



cheers!! 8.25pm...