Day 3 we went up the mountains, thank God we didn't actually have to hike but we got to ride the convenient Ski Lift. Here is Felix!
Here is the view obviously from the sky lift.
And this is from the top of the mountains!
Once at the top of the mountain there were once again several temples for worship. At one of the temples I was nearly coaxed into giving money to the temple. As I was standing outside watching Felix and Leo do there thing bowing down to the 圣像 or shengxiang (icons). One of the monks started waving to me from inside the temple to come in. Out of curiosity I went just to see what he wanted thinking maybe he would teach me something about Taoism. When I went in he had me sign my name on a piece of paper and then next to it he wrote down "200" and then took a red stamp had me breath on it and then he stamped it and proceeded to point to a box for me to put 200 kuai in about $27 USD. After that I just got up and left and he chased me out the door saying for good luck for good luck. Though I wish I could have said something to him, all I knew to say was 不要谢谢！Bu yao xie xie or don't want thank you.
Once again Leo is crazy!
I love this sign! Especially since there were several places were there was big chunks of fence missing and even sometimes sidewalk. And right on the other side would be a sheer cliff! Somehow we made it back though...
This little cave was right over a huge cliff. Mostly made out of rocks that were covered in moss from all the moister in the air that day. The only way in is on these two slippery and narrow strips of rock over a cliff!
Here again Leo shows that he is indeed crazy. This is inside the cave where there was steep and narrow stair case that goes up to a little opening at the top. The stairs were maybe big enough to put one foot down on a step at a time. With the fact that everything was too slippery it wasn't the best idea. One mistake and you end up like the guy in the sign!
The entire walk was 6 Kilometers down and about 8 back. Reason being is that we had to catch our bus back to the school and were running back and happened to run right past the exit and kept going...
It was certainly worth the walk though with the great view of Dali, er hei lake and the waterfall at the very top! It was certainly good ending to a good trip. I was also able to get to know Leo and Felix really well and we have been meeting once a week to study together ever since the Dali trip!
