A trip to WuYi Mount
Assuming his employees may have been bored with the routine job and may need something exciting for a change, the head of my small hospital kindly agreed to give us a three-day vacation for a trip to WuYi Mount. The Mount is well known for its scenic views and its refreshing “raft drifting”, and is not very far from the town where we live in. Actually a trip to someplace a year has been our
customary practice since long ago.
Everybody got excited with the good news and soon became busy preparing for the “spirit lift”.
Not me, though. It’s not a long trip and we had to spend a full day (totally
) on the road out of the three-day off. What I mostly needed was my DC—I’ve become something of a fan of photography and traveling since I fell for the new kind of camera.
It took us half a day to get to our destination. The journey was far from boring because the folks were all excited. The tour guide was a sweet young lady,
who told a ton of interesting stories during the whole ride. To our delight, the hotel we were to stay at was situated at the suburban area and was surrounded
by low hills and was thus very pleasantly quiet at night. It was not during the
national vacation so there weren’t too many visitors. We even got the opportunity of photographing two mating insects! (See picture.) The only fly in the ointment, though, was that the hotel had the most enthusiastic mosquitos, who were so hospitable that kept kissing me even after I decided to have some sleep.
The view of the first day wasn’t too impressive, though. It was pleasantly mild. The spot was called “One Thread of Sky”, which was actually a narrowish,
long aperture between two mountains. The room was so narrow that those who were a little broad in the beam would find themselves in a “stuck” dilemma: they
could hardly continue to go forward, nor could they easily get out of the mountainous slot. The air during the journey smelled somewhat stale.
The next day was the climax of the whole three-day trip. We had been told before we got there that the “Tian You Peak” was the most beautiful scenery in the whole touring area. The drizzle of that day did nothing to put out our excitement. The scenes during the entire mountain climbing were beyond all words I know. “Picturesque” actually was not enough to describe the views of the mountains and rivers rounded; which, along with the distant clouds, perfectly combined
to make a picture that was completely out of this world. While at the height of the peak, we nearly mistook ourselves for being in heaven. Everybody stopped
to take pictures though the rain began to pick up after we conquered the whole peak. The scenery at the mountain foot was nearly the same fascinating with large fields of green grass and tress, enjoyably clear air, and see-through clean water with well-visible fish enjoying themselves in it. It was a great fun feeding these unnamed fish, some of which were white and some redish and yellowish. I
certainly had a great time viewing the views and taking pictures from all different angels. A true picture-like view to feast your eyes on!
The afternoon’s schedule was the famous “raft drifting”. Unfortunately we
had a really heavy rain, and for the most ride the sky juice just kept pouring down, not caring if it was welcome. Realizing that we were at the full mercy of
the sky, the poor tourists all hid themselves tightly in their rain gear, with a
few being in the mood to enjoy the views though the wheelmen tried very hard to
cheer their guests up.
We still got a stroke of luck, though. The sky cleared up during the rest small part of the whole ride. With big care, I took out my DC and made the most of
the rest of the ride. I couldn’t afford to let the remaining views slip my fingers, anyway. The scenery was the same breath taking. If it only hadn’t rained that hard!
People often use the phrase “green-mountained and clear-watered” to present
scenery that they think is beautiful. As to the mountains and rivers of the WuYi Mount area, I simply assume the phrase is not enough. If you are a true nature lover and a fan of photography, make a point to visit WuYi Mount!
PS. It's a taxing job to upload pictures at HongEn Community. I can't stand it
. For more photoes I took during the trip, please visit the given link; you may
even find out how this Panpanpan looks like:
http://club.mypda.com.cn/sp.asp?tid=76273&bcp=1&loc=2
Panpanpan.
