Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Heart-Shaped Box

While in China, I took a train trip from Guangzhou to Shaoguan. From Shaoguan, we took a 45 minute bus ride to Danxiashan Geopark. We stayed two nights at a hotel at the entrance of the park. I wish we had stayed another night. There was a lot to see at this park. Mount Danxia is a mountainous area with all kind of rock outcrops and incredible cliffs. Some of rock formations are a bit unusual as the pictures will show. On the cliffs and mountain tops, there were Buddhist temples. The trails or stairs to these temples were quite impressive. The views were hazy, but I still took a lot of pictures. The pictures will be divided into two posts. Here are the pictures for part one.
View of Danxiashan Geopark from the Hotel Room
Cable Car to the top of Elder Peak
View of the direction we will walk on Elder Peak
Stairs in the rock
Me and haze
Snow Grotto Temple (First built during the Ming Dynasty. Additional structures added later.)
Snow Grotto Temple
Snow Grotto Temple
Renhua River
A Pavilion on top of the mountain
Leaving the Pavilion
Going Down
Still going down
More stairs down
Looking back up the stairs
Down...
Stairs, Pavilion at the top. On the left, the rock has a symbol that means happiness for marriage
Continuing...
The cliffs from near the bottom
Looking back at the stairs and pavilion
The trail signs called this the Female Rock
Zoom view of the Pavilion and stairs
Full view
At the bottom
Going to a boat launch to ride back to a village for lunch.

2 comments:

Pops said...

Liked your pictures. Interesting looking place but those steps look scary to me. A trail for young people with young knees... Having a good time you were.

Mom said...

Quite a climb! The people that built those steps, along with the pavilion, worked very hard. I’m wondering if you had a particular reason for pointing out the symbol on the cliff...happiness in marriage???
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