Company Outing

The company invited me for a three days outing last week but they forgot to tell me that they will climb Mt. Huang (the most popular mountain in China). Well ok, it's not really a mount climbing with rope but it's still not that easy to walk up and down the stairs in the mountain with only 1 free hand. They were quite steep steps and there were not a lot of security railings available.

The trip started 3.30 am (yes, AM!!!) and we took Yungu cable car (enlarge map to see) to climb to White Goose Range (about 1600 m). Then we climbed to Book Case Peak and walked up and down the mountain via Bright Summit to take the other cable car down from Lotus Peak. The whole walk was about 25 km and we finished at around 2 pm.

Some people worried about my condition and they wanted me to use a human-carried chair. I told them that I won't be caught alive carried on a chair! Besides, I believe on my own feet and I did managed to finish second in the hike! The first group was mainly the germans, me was the second and the rest of the chinese were way behind me! Not bad for a one handed girl, huh??

At night our feet were so sore that we decided to go for a foot massage in the city. I am not quite sure whether that was effective as we were more busy chatting, drinking and making fun/photos one to the other than really enjoying the foot massage itself. But nevertheless it was a fun night :-)

We went also to Huizou Grotto and Western Lake in Hangzhou the day after. Yap, you will see me with my arm sling in the last picture!