Luo Fushan

A wonderful friend of ours and his awesome uncle offered to take our family for a little site seeing. We told them that we wanted to see the country, the no-modernized China. And they delivered! It was great! We went to a mountain which has a military base at the bottom of one side and on the other side is a touristy place which use to be an infirmary for the military. It was about a 2 hours drive and we went in their car. It was really beautiful! VERY green! I miss the green living in the city. We walked around the first place, which also is a famous temple for Taoism. The shrines were wonderful and very colorful. The only bad thing about it was there was so much incense burning that it kind of hurt the throat. This first picture is of some of the shrines at the temple. Really, we had a great time and it was a day trip!! Our friend, Pascal's uncle grew up right there on that mountain, so it was wonderful to hear what he had to say. He told us how things had changed and what the meaning of something were. We could not have asked for a better Monday!
This is a picture of the mountain was we were approaching it. A real mountain. They have a tendency here to call anything raise a little higher than surrounding areas a mountain. At least here in the city that is true. It looks snow capped, but it was not, that is just a cloud. In fact, it was a little hot there. This was not even a week ago and we are still getting too hot during the days. Anyone complaining about snow, I will trade you in a heart beat! I would rather be too cold than too hot!

This is a wishing tree. People would buy the fabric, make a wish and then it would get placed on the tree. It looked so awesome. The closest thing to fall here.
This is the opening of the temple.

The details were so amazing! Jack, the guy who grew up here said that the way the roof was built it never gets dirty.







This is a well that is very deep. It was a well to eternity! Pretty cool.
This shows how much smoke there was around.

Again, the details! This was on the roof.

We were told that is tree is 5000 years old! WOW!
That is Jack, our tour guide, on the left.
Here we are eating so silky tofu! It was quite good. It is something unique from this area.
This looked like it was a dragon waterside. Pascal insured us it wasn't. If we stated at this place I am sure we would try to see for sure it was!














This is pickled pork meat hanging to dry. We actually had some at lunch. It was yummy!
This is the place we had lunch. It was an organic place and very delicious!
Here is a spider Robert found. It was big!

These picture are cute. I was just trying to get a good picture to send out for Christmas of Kenya. I thought right next to some bamboo would be great. I didn't get one that I loved.



Robert eating a whole fish. Yes, we do this often here. Eyes, head, bones and all!
A different temple on the other side of the mountain. The road to get to the top and down the other side reminded us a lot of the the "Going to the Sun Road" in Glacier Park.

This is a very small village on the side of the mountain. They had electricity, but it seemed they were a self sufficient village. The way this village looked, reminded me a lot of Native American villages back home. It was run down and dirty. We were told that the government has taken hold of the property of this village and uses it as a tourist place.



This is some bamboo that was right near the village.








The river we crossed over to get to the mountain.
Again, we had a great time! We hope to have many more day trips to see the great places around us! We are excited to travel and see more of China!