22ndMarch09

Wu Dang - Day 2
Woke up at around 6.00am because we're gonna gather at around 6.30am sharp
Today we'll be going up to Wu Dang Mountain !!

Mount WuDang
In years past, the mountains of Wudang were known for the many Taoist monasteries to be found there, monasteries which became known as an academic centre for the research, teaching and practise of meditation, Chinese martial art, traditional Chinese medicine , Taoist agriculture practises and related arts.

WuDang martial arts
Zhang Shanfeng(张三丰), is the originator of Wudangquan generally and Tai ji Quan specifically. He was said to be inspired by a fight he witnessed between a pied magpie (also said to be a white crane) and a cobra. Wudangquan advocates the cultivation of morality and fostering of nature in conjunction with physical training.Wudang is often associated with swords. The sword techniques were again supposedly created by Zhang Sanfeng, and as with many arts associated with Wudang are based around internal and soft techniques, avoiding direct clashes with the opponent and instead relying on quickness and borrowing the opponent's power.
-wikipedia-

for more details on WuDang:
http://www.wudang-kungfu.com/

Breakfast at 7.00am sharp...
and it doesn't look appealing at all......

This is me still a bit sleepy.
Hair stylist : The hard cold bed.

Porridge.

Even though the breakfast was simple and bit blend
we clear it all and still hungry.After breakfast, we're in need of toilet.
To avoid the Legend toilet in the hotel restaurant
the 9 of us went to a better hotel just behind the restaurant.

The moment we step into the lobby, we were like "WHOA !! "
and head straight to toilet.

The toilet was way lot BETTER than the hotel restaurant..
and best of all the toilet is sparkling clean !!
cause the cleaner just wash the place =)

Happily relieve ourselves and head back to the bus head toward WU DANG MOUNTAIN!!
during the ride, Jermey and i folded straw heart.
Straws in China are quite thick and its not easy to fold it.

Reach the ticking area and went through some verification
while waiting for the verification to be done
both Jeremey and i just place our folded straw heart on the ' bushes '

My favourite photo of the day.
Love it.

took a ride of around 50mins to reach foot of Wu Dang

The morning was great.
took this picture while walking to the cable car station.
The line was very very freaking LONG, we have queued for around 2hours..
regretted that we didn't walk up..
and miss the fun of it.

The locals have one common habit or should i say culture, that is to jump queue.
There two ladies cutting queue where Mr Chua was just right in front of them,
Mr Chua face changed and was piss off.
With the help from our tour guide.
She shouted " if everyone said that our tour group is in front
then there won’t be people queuing up! "
She also asked the guard to step in and get them back into the line.

The little girl who was outside of the queue.
Dave was quite interested in her...

After 90 mins or so
we finally saw the entrance of the cable car station...

Weeeee~
finally after 2 hours...

Our cable car
a two seater.
cable car partner : Ernest.

just like what it shown
The Golden Summit
To get to the Peak of the moutain
we still need to climb up stairs
climb climb climb
Keep on Climbing!!View on the Mountain.

There's a Temple at the peak
lots and lots of worshippers came all the way up here to worship
they believe that the higher you go
the nearer you are to the gods.

My personal shots and my messy hair !!
i think i can call it a good hair day.
Locks like this can be seen all around.
give good blessing to family..
lock your love with your love ones together
the keys will be thrown down the mountain and never be found
so that the lock will never be open and loves for love ones will always be locked together

Peak of WuDang
Met Randolf while queueing for cable car
and saw some of his group members
Clive, XiangYu & Ci Min
Photo with MR MA !!

Goin down in cable car

Group shots!

the scenery here was really beautiful

Hardcore translation

Sakura!!

Lunch time!!
We had our lunch at the nearby restaurant
Another simple meal with vegetables as most dish.
Like always, we ate like theres tomorrow.

At the foot of mount WuDang

After lunch, we got to rush back to campus as the bus driver is in a rush of picking another group of people from the airport at around 10.30pm, it took 6-7 hours ride back to campus and the time now is 3.36pm.

The start of Torturing ride begins...
As usual most of us would falll asleep during the ride, and some would be taking photos of those who are sleeping.

As the sky turn darker, the night ride begin to get more entertaining and fun.
After the only toilet break at around 8.00pm sharp, we board back to the bus.

The driver switch on its Tv and the Mini KTV begins !! Woots!!
the 9 of us who occupied the back seats sang along as the Music Video play.
We sang almost all the songs it played, from more recent artist such as Jay Chou's song to those old classic songs.

Moreover, what make it more exciting is that the driver drove OPPOSITE direction of the road !!
He droved for more then 30mins in the opposite lane, and changed back to the right path when theres a cross junction.

To us this kind of action was unbelievable because drivers in Singapore would horn you till you turn deaf even if it's only one slow turn.

Despite the extra excitment that the driver gave us, we continue singing till we reach the campus and the driver 100% late for his nxt pick up.
Time when we reach school : 10.26pm

All of us were hungry and tired, and we went outside campus to buy dinner and take back to bunk.

Ate dinner, wash up and off to bed.

class was push back to 10am.
Everyone was exhausted.

sad to leave WuDang Mountain.