Heaven With a Side of Fog and Stairs

Hey Everyone,

This weekend was a trip to the Huangshan Mountains (Yellow Mountains).  It is the mountains that scenery (namely the floating mountains) from Avatar is based off of.  Yep, It was that beautiful.

This will be one of those posts without a ton of words, and more heavy on the pictures.

Day 1: Went to a small village outside of the mountains.  Had some nice water areas and very cheap souvenirs.  Like too cheap to even want to bargain.  For the equivalent of 5 USD, I picked up a variety of pretty cool items.  We also had a nice lunch before heading to the Hostel.  I took some pictures on my phone and they will transfer once I get back to the US.

Day 2:  Hiking UP the mountains.   It was a lot of stairs.  Like a LOT of stairs. Times 10. Times 10 again.  For a given amount of trail, I would guess that 70 percent of it was stairs.  There were a couple of outstanding peaks that we made it to, and were able to get to the hostile in time to relax and play a quick game of hide and go seek.  I was never found and had to give up my location each round (Thank you Robinson Pioneer Village training).  All in all, the day was tiring, but worth it because of this:

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Day 3:  If you have made it down this far, props.  We woke up inside a cloud. I could see it blowing into our room through the window.  Pretty cool, but it made for pretty bad pictures.  The hike down was kind of annoying. If you've ever been in a continuous state of going down stairs, it's not fun, but I managed a few pics.

In case you were wondering, this last picture is me at the bottom after like a bajillion stairs, eating ice cream, and yes, this does count as my food picture.