Saturday, March 21, 2009

day 18 - Wudang Mountain ~ 武当山

We set off to Wudang Mountain at 7am in the morning. The journey to Wudang Mountain took around 6 hours. I slept all the way on the bus until the bus stopped for a 15 minutes toilet break at around 10am plus. We reached Wudang Mountain at around 1pm which we had our lunch at the restaurant. The food was not bad, but not as good as Singapore’s. I MISS NGEE ANN POLY CANTEEN 2 SALMON TERIYAKI DON. :(

After the meal, we went onboard the tour bus to “tai zi po” (prince temple?). There were road lanes within the mountain for the cars and buses. There were many sharp turns which made me think of Initial D.

After the trip to the tai zi po, we went further to the “zi xiao gong”. When we further explored into the temple, we saw a group of students practicing wushu. The group comprises from young kids like 6 years old to young teenagers like my age. There was also girls in the group too :D. While watching their training, I found out that their training was very strict. Once you did one step wrong, the instructor would yell at you. One of the punishments I saw was that a group of them had to jump down and up the steps. -.-“ After that, we went off to our next destination, “nan yan gong”.

After that, we went back to the same restaurant for dinner. After our meal, we went to the hotel that we booked to check in. Our room was damn comfortable, and a wide varieties of TV channel (why we lived in dormitory but not hotel like this ? D: ) After a while, we went out for a walk along the streets. Nothing much from the streets as it was already late at night. When we were walking around, we were held back by some aunties, which turned out to be prostitutes. First time experiencing this kind of things, so we ran off immediately. Phew ~