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Huangshan: The Most Beautiful Mountain in China
Blog: Flying Coach - 23 January 2011
About five hours into our six hour bus ride from Shanghai to Huangshan, the bus driver pulled off into an area that was obviously not our final destination. He turned and announced something in the local dialect, so even Sara could not understand what he said. Whatever it was, though, it pissed off two-thirds of [...]
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Trans-Siberia Video 02 – Huangshan
Blog: Flying Coach - 5 January 2011
The second leg of our journey took us to the most beautiful mountain of China, Huangshan, the Yellow Mountain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZF66GUFr8k
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unbelievably beautiful
Blog: The Road Forks - 15 November 2010
unbelievably beautiful November 15, 2010 huang shan mountains
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Misty Mountain Climb
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 31 May 2010
The main purpose of my trip to Anhui a week ago was to visit friends whose students were performing a musical.
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Love locks taking over the world
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 29 November 2009
Apparently the Chinese tradition of engraving a lock with the names of a couple and locking it onto a romantic spot, like a bridge or the chain-link railing at the top of a mountain, is catching on in Sweden. If this is the second step in Chinese world-wide cultural domination (the first step was clearly [...]
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Dante's Nine Circles of Spa
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 7 August 2009
After two days of hiking Mt. Huangshan's unforgiving granite path, our feet needed a good soak. We found a hot springs spa nestled in the misty mountains, next to a Best Western. We were the first ones at the spa at 9am, and had to wait a bit to use all the pools, which the staff were filling with steaming hot spring water. There were about 15 pools, none of which were filled with pure unadulterated spring water. For some medicinal reason that was lost in translation, one of the pools was filled with cheap vodka heated to 40C by the spring water.
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Dante's Nine Circles of Spa
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 7 August 2009
After two days of hiking Mt. Huangshan's unforgiving granite path, our feet needed a good soak. We found a hot springs spa nestled in the misty mountains, next to a Best Western. We were the first ones at the spa at 9am, and had to wait a bit to use all the pools, which the staff were filling with steaming hot spring water. There were about 15 pools, none of which were filled with pure unadulterated spring water. For some medicinal reason that was lost in translation, one of the pools was filled with cheap vodka heated to 40C by...
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The Ministry of Public Toilet Ratings
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 6 August 2009
This post is the second installment of our Funny Signs in China series.Some of the signs aren't all that funny, actually, but we try not to have such high standards.No public health campaign is really complete without cartoons scaring the kids. This educational cartoon about H1N1 plays on a continuous loop in the airport. ("It comes from America" is one of the fun facts, which we generously interpreted as meaning "The continents of N. and S. America".)
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The Ministry of Public Toilet Ratings
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 6 August 2009
This post is the second installment of our Funny Signs in China series. Some of the signs aren't all that funny, actually, but we try not to have such high standards. No public health campaign is really complete without cartoons scaring the kids. This educational cartoon about H1N1 plays on a continuous loop in the airport. ("It comes from America" is one of the fun facts, which we generously interpreted as meaning "The continents of N. and S. America".) Five miles into our hike up Mt. Huangshan we came upon public toilets that received three stars from the APTA (Anhui...
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Red Rum Anyone?
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 4 August 2009
For your enjoyment, here are three slide shows from our night on Mt. Huang Shan. The Beihai Guesthouse was built during the early days of Mao and felt eerily like the remote hotel from Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining. It even included a Shining-esque group photo featuring a Chinese Jack Nicholson. To our surprise, we stayed in a cabin tucked away behind the basketball courts, not in the hotel proper. (Remember when you view the photos that there are no roads on the mountain. Everything you see was carried in.)
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Red Rum Anyone?
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 4 August 2009
For your enjoyment, here are three slide shows from our night on Mt. Huang Shan. The Beihai Guesthouse was built during the early days of Mao and felt eerily like the remote hotel from Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining. It even included a Shining-esque group photo featuring a Chinese Jack Nicholson. To our surprise, we stayed in a cabin tucked away behind the basketball courts, not in the hotel proper. (Remember when you view the photos that there are no roads on the mountain. Everything you see was carried in.) In this Album: Our accommodation at the Beihai hotel....
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A Stairway to Huangshan
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 3 August 2009
This weekend we flew to the yellow mountains to discover why people say that once you climb Mt. Huangshan, you never want to climb another mountain again.It turns out that Mt. Huangshan is the single largest stairmaster in the world, if not the universe. From the moment you pay your 230RMB entrance fee to the moment you check into your 4 star mountain top hotel, there is neither the necessity nor the opportunity to leave the steep granite stairway that stretches 10 miles from bottom to top.
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A Stairway to Huangshan
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 3 August 2009
This weekend we flew to the yellow mountains to discover why people say that once you climb Mt. Huangshan, you never want to climb another mountain again. It turns out that Mt. Huangshan is the single largest stairmaster in the world, if not the universe. From the moment you pay your 230RMB entrance fee to the moment you check into your 4 star mountain top hotel, there is neither the necessity nor the opportunity to leave the steep granite stairway that stretches 10 miles from bottom to top. The views from the mountain are truly striking and changing all the...
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