Thursday, October 18, 2012

Zhangjiajie.

2ND STOP OF THE MOST EPIC VACATION EVER- ZHANGJIAJIE.

I will have to admit, Zhangjiajie was not my most favorite place ever in terms of the actual city and the people. It could have been due to the fact that I was sick and irritable, but the people there were kind of creepy. I don't care what country you are in, it is just not okay for middle aged men to hit on younger girls.

Anyway, we did do some pretty incredible things here. And I also found my favorite cookies in the world. I asked someone what they were called and they said "Chocolate Cookies." What a clever name...haha.

If you don't know what Zhangjiajie is and want to see, click here. You wont regret it.

The first night we were there we didn't really know what to do, so we went to the Yellow Dragon Caves. For pictures of this, click here. They are just these giant caves with incredible colorful cavey features, for lack of a better term. It was pretty sweet!

The second day in Zhangjiajie was amazing. We took a cable car (and by cable car I mean the worlds longest cable car), all the way to the top of the Tianmen Mountains, which you can see in the first link I posted. When you are at the top top of these mountains you feel like you are on top of the world. It's incredible. You walk along this path that is literally on the edge of a cliff, so if you don't like heights I probably wouldn't recommend going there. But you can walk around the entire mountain. Unfortunately I was still extremely sick and had to stop, for my sake and to stay back with another girl who was sick. But it was still amazing!

After we were done walking around the top of the mountains, we took the cable car down a little ways and got off at the stop for the Heaven's Gate. To see pictures of this, click here. Even though I'm sure you've seen pictures on Pinterest. Basically there is this giant whole in the mountain and you climb up about 1,000 stairs to reach it! It was one of the coolest things I have ever done. However, I looked ridiculous the whole time. Earlier that day I had to borrow my friend pink shorts because my pants were irritating some bug bites on my legs. Then later it got cold, so I put on the sweater I brought, which just happened to be pink as well. Pink shorts, pink sweater, and pink shoe laces. I looked like a giant piece of bubble gum! haha!

By the end of that day my sick little body had just about had enough. I had a delicious dinner at a little restaurant near our hostel, then I went back and slept. When I woke up I still felt like crap, so I slept until we had to leave the hostel and catch yet another train to our next stop!

FENGHUANG!!!


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