Day 25

Most of us climb out of our bed to assemble at the hotel’s canteen for our breakfast. Today our destination is to the top of Wudang Shan and to the Jin Ding. After having our breakfast at 7am, we deposit our bags in the hotel before we begin our journey out. The journey to the top was not easy. The total distance up is 4.5km. The number of steps we have to climb is countless. However, that is not the worst. As after reaching the top, we will have to come down by ourselves again as unlike the previous batches, the cable car is currently undergoing repair works. It took us hours before we finally reached the destination. We waited for the tour guide to pass us the tickets to the Jin Ding before we proceed up. There were a lot of people up the Jin Ding, which is a building made fully out of copper. Most of those people are there to worship. I bought one of those lock which engraves your name. After which you will have to lock it somewhere up. The process down the peak is tough. As majority of us are very exhausted due to the climb up. Furthermore, some of us are experiencing cramps. When we were on our way to the hotel to collect our belonging which we deposit there, we were being told to wait at the bus stop. After which we were told by our teacher to take the bus down the mountain as they are waiting for us in the bus. By then, we were already very late. This result in the delayed of the schedule planed. After the rest had arrived, we have our lunch before we journey back to Wuhan.

The journey up...

Jin Ding

The lock

My Reflection

Due to the cable car repairing in Wudang Shan, we had no choice but to climb up and down the mountain as it was the only way to navigate around it. However, the whole journey up was extremely tiring and some of our classmates could not catch up the same fast pace as the guys and hence, seriously lagged behind. This was of expectation as we had to be equipped with sufficient stamina in order to reach the peak which took us a total of nearly 4 hours. Although the whole journey is calculated at only 4.5km, it was the steep slope that killed all of us. I admit there was time that I just wanted to give up after seeing slope after slope. But I am glad that my perseverance do paid off when I witnessed what nice peak scenery Wudang Shan contains of.