I pause. What of God's silence? I think it over. I add:
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and ultimate purpose.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Huihang Ancient Trail May 15th to 17th 2009
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
-- Robert Frost
Off the beaten path we go… to Huihang Ancient Trail- a road that is used by merchants to connect Jixi Country in Anhui Province to Zhejiang Province to shorten their 50km route to 25km.
In this series of travel story, we have four interesting characters – The Commander, The Magician, the Truck and of course me the Red-hooded traveler.
We departed on Friday night for Hangzhou – and as usual our super worried Commander was super-worried and super-charged that she left her office at two to prepare for the eight o’clock train. Whereas the Magician managed to make himself disappears till 15 minutes before the scheduled departed time and luckily he is so good that he managed to make himself appears again on the correct boarding gate at the Train Station.
Phew! So finally we could all leave for what would be the most unexpected adventure of our life.
We stayed a night in Hangzhou, then in the morning 4 hours and 2 buses later we arrived at Yu Chuan, which is the entrance of Huihang Gudao!
The trail started with cemented path through the villages, where left and right are farm houses and often on the background, we can hear the cow’s bellowings in the air… also the smell was pretty evident. Then the view changed to paddy fields- against the backdrop of blue mountains and rows and rows of trees!
About 2 km later- we found a pool! I suddenly remembered what lee mack – city weekend’s armchair traveler wrote about this- he wrote that he swam into the pool. I can totally figure the reason- the pool looked so tempting… clean greenish blue, moreover the sun was out and after a long journey the pool brought a refreshing change. After negotiating between the guys and the girls… we decided to take the dip- except for Truck who enjoyed himself sun-tanning on the rock, eating kuaci on one hand and a camera on the other….!
After a refreshing dip in the pool, the next part of the trail is the staircases- lots and lots of them going up and going down to the first point- jiang nan di yi hang.
The sky was changing a bit- the wind started coming and rain poured down not long after we left the jiang nan di yi hang on the way to xia xue tang.
Our destination is supposed to be lan tian ao where we camp the night however we missed the sign of the turned off and we got lost. 10 km later we realised.
We ended up staying at a farmer's house also with another group of people from Hangzhou that also shared the same fate of getting lost as us.
Next day, reain cleared and we took a short hike to Lan Tian Ao... the name said it all.. everything is blue and the mountains are just layers and layers of blue... and green!
Beautiful!
I took the less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
-- Robert Frost
Off the beaten path we go… to Huihang Ancient Trail- a road that is used by merchants to connect Jixi Country in Anhui Province to Zhejiang Province to shorten their 50km route to 25km.
In this series of travel story, we have four interesting characters – The Commander, The Magician, the Truck and of course me the Red-hooded traveler.
We departed on Friday night for Hangzhou – and as usual our super worried Commander was super-worried and super-charged that she left her office at two to prepare for the eight o’clock train. Whereas the Magician managed to make himself disappears till 15 minutes before the scheduled departed time and luckily he is so good that he managed to make himself appears again on the correct boarding gate at the Train Station.
Phew! So finally we could all leave for what would be the most unexpected adventure of our life.
We stayed a night in Hangzhou, then in the morning 4 hours and 2 buses later we arrived at Yu Chuan, which is the entrance of Huihang Gudao!
The trail started with cemented path through the villages, where left and right are farm houses and often on the background, we can hear the cow’s bellowings in the air… also the smell was pretty evident. Then the view changed to paddy fields- against the backdrop of blue mountains and rows and rows of trees!
About 2 km later- we found a pool! I suddenly remembered what lee mack – city weekend’s armchair traveler wrote about this- he wrote that he swam into the pool. I can totally figure the reason- the pool looked so tempting… clean greenish blue, moreover the sun was out and after a long journey the pool brought a refreshing change. After negotiating between the guys and the girls… we decided to take the dip- except for Truck who enjoyed himself sun-tanning on the rock, eating kuaci on one hand and a camera on the other….!
After a refreshing dip in the pool, the next part of the trail is the staircases- lots and lots of them going up and going down to the first point- jiang nan di yi hang.
The sky was changing a bit- the wind started coming and rain poured down not long after we left the jiang nan di yi hang on the way to xia xue tang.
Our destination is supposed to be lan tian ao where we camp the night however we missed the sign of the turned off and we got lost. 10 km later we realised.
We ended up staying at a farmer's house also with another group of people from Hangzhou that also shared the same fate of getting lost as us.
Next day, reain cleared and we took a short hike to Lan Tian Ao... the name said it all.. everything is blue and the mountains are just layers and layers of blue... and green!
Beautiful!
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