DAY 84
It was a freaking tiring experience for me
We left Tianjin at 7am in the morning
And reached ShanDong after 5 hours of train ride
[about the train, erm, i have no comments, haha
it was a good experience i would say,
it's unlike the bullet train i sat to beijing on my last trip
Photos of the train will be upload on my facebook]
Conmen are a plenty nowadays, thus our senior, who's a citizen of China was very careful of that
We had to buy tickets for the train ride home for the second day
The normal ticketing counter was packed with a lot of people
At first, our senior wanted us to use the excuse as foreigner, to ask some person at the Front of the queue to buy tickets for us
In the end we saw some 'helpful man' (maybe he's a taxi driver- but he uses his own car)
He brought us to another place which sells ticket at an extra of 5RMB
Hence saving us time, he then asked if we were hungry, and brought us to some restaurant, and he took a cab fee of 5RMB
We looked at the restaurant meun and it doesn't interest us, so we left
And had lunch at some other place
We decided to start climbing the 泰山 at evening
thus we went to a park to slack around and wait for the time to pass
Before that we went to get some snacks and lots of cucumber and tomatoes and 甜瓜 (taste like honeydew but has a size of an apple)
we walk around in the park, not like parks in s'pore, this park was BIG
At around 5pm, we went to 泰山
The entrance fee costed us 120RMB and another 2RMB was for insurance
Climbing 泰山 is all about climbing stairs (as in staircases that u climb in ur HDB)
There are steeps step, narrow ones too
Starting was fine and there was only little steps, it just gets worst as we advance
At about 6 to 7pm, the sky turns dark, there were no lamps by the side of all the stairs of 泰山
We either rely on the star lights (cos' there was no moon) or our torchlights
When advancing there are a lot of temples
Many believers come to this mountain to pray too
There was one temple which they give free joss stick to pray
lol, there's no such thing as free stuff, so we were careful about it
There's a section of 泰山 which is considered as the difficult part
It's called the 十八盘 (18 i dunno-what-to-call-it )
Anyway, there was the '18 slow pace' and '18 fast pace' from what i understand
The embarrassing moment was when i got cramps in my calves
I was walking like a duck
Out of the 5 of us, only i got cramps
It's like WTH
So the 18 i dunno-what-to-call-it was a torture to me
This mountain climbing, was fun, but it wasn't fun in the sense that we climb all to the top, without stopping for a long break, mostly were short breaks
What i think that would be fun, is maybe have a card game in between or something like telling a ghost story or whatever
By rushing all the way to top, will cause serious leg pain on the day after, hahaha
We reached the top at about 12am
We didn't want to rent motels, as it was expensive
Thus we rent 'thick winter China Army' coats
And using the table mats we bought
We slept on the ground
The wind was unbearable thru out the night
What's worst was, everytime i turn my legs, they cramp
The were cramps on my calves and thighs, almost thru out the night
DAY 85
We woke up at around 3.30am
there were many people walking pass us
seems like they are rushing for a good spot to view the sunrise
OH the reason or aim for climbing 泰山 was to look at the beautiful sunrise
so, we need good spots too, and we woke up and start advancing
the whole time it was cold, and our legs are tired
mood wasn't very good too
We got quite a good spot to view but it was a waste when the sun didn't showed up at 4.30am
that's the reported time
as it was summer, the sun rises much earlier
i was about to give up when a glow of intense orangey-red light appeared at the horizon
everyone was like wooooooow (said in a very CHINESE way)
it lighten up the mood
so we started what we're suppose to do, take lotsa lotsa pictures
After that, we prepared to decent
It's wasn't very easy, as you to be careful or else, it's a fall to your grave
But we took a lesser time to descent then to ascent
The scenery was better when u can see it
It was around 12pm when we reached the bottom of 泰山
I was so damn happy, as it was torturing
Our train ride home, was at 3.56pm
Thus we found some shade area,
Took the table mat out and slept on the ground
I felt that it was cool and interesting as i would definitely not do it in s'pore
This train ride back was longer than the pervious
as the previous was a fast speed train
this was a normal speed
haha i think the difference was that one stops more and the other stops lesser
we played cards on the train and even play with stranger
haha
but seriously, i would never take a train again, unless it's MRT
Kenn
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