Day 4 - Cangshan mountain

Breakfast at our lovely hotel... was exactly the same every morning hahaha.  Noodle soup, steamed sweet potato and sweetcorn, orange and coffee/milk.  It was filling and delicious, but a change would have been welcome! 

Just our usual breakfast

Our agenda today was Changshan mountain. Took a Didi to the Gantong cableway.  Cost was  CNY380/RM228 for the 3 of us including the 'scenic spot' fee.  This, and also the entrance fee for the Stone Forest is steep for China so I guess this is the fee for foreigners - my dad mentioned that years ago he was in Beijing and just paid the lower fee for locals.  Well unlike him I have kindergarten-level Chinese and cannot pass for a local to save my life!  I was already delighted at having successfully purchased tickets HAHAHA. 

Successfully in the cable car 

This is quite scenic

You should move there, oh Grandmaster

We were planning to walk on the Jade Belt Path, which was a supposedly easy, mostly-flat trail.  Hmm then what the heck was this...

Looks quite high

.... and this?  

Yes still going up 

Steep steps went on for quite a distance.  Then somehow, the route became like this...

Aha yes it is flat now

We could have hit the path earlier, except I was looking for literally 'Jade Belt Path' when the signs showed 'Yudai Trail' - YUDAI is 'Jade Belt' in Chinese.  Oh well, we did see more and survive to tell the tale.  The path was repetitive after a while and the girls wanted to leave.

Some chinese writing 

So we walked back, climbed down, took the cable car and then a Didi.  It was 3pm by the time we reversed the whole journey.  I picked a random restaurant out of the many near our hotel, just because I noticed a table of people still eating.  And this turned out to be a very good meal!  For only CNY88/RM50 we got so much food!  Sliced meats of various types, pork-stuffed mushrooms, onion rings into which eggs were cracked, taiwanese sausage, various veggies, rice and even two sweet pastries.  Everything was cooked on the hot plate (which did make us rather hot as well!).  A staff helped us initially, then left once we had gotten the hang of it. 

A veritable feast!

This was the start of our 'lunners' (lunch + dinner).  Since we ate so much and so late, we could skip having a proper dinner and were hence free to eat anything we liked the rest of the day.  

Like grilled oysters

And meat pastries