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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Shaolin Shaolin...No see Kungfu leh

wah...it's a huge work to write a travel journal in english ah(wont be a formal journal though,cos of my limited eng skill),esp for an ancient chinese temple,i'd like to hav a try though.

after 3 hours' drive from Zhengzhou,we arrived in Fengdeng(a city in Henan province,where shaolin temple is located)

Shaolin temple is located among the mountains(Song Mt 嵩山）

shaolin temple hav become a very commercial n popular sightseeing spot

I told yonghui(s'porean) that i will go to shaoling temple the day before yesterday.he asked me why i go there.when i told him i went there for sightseeing(did he think i want to be a nun?) he was surprised,he said he didn know shaolin can be for sightseeing de.then we joked that the monks even hav a company n drive to their gogeous condo after work...turned out all the things we joked r all true!! Monks definitely r very rich...they even hav a car factory

the first gate of shaolin

lotus flower path,as the old tales,where Tathagata buddha stepped,there will grow a lotus flower

Tathagata buddha，the founder of Buddhism,named Sakyamuni,a antient Indian prince

Bodhisattva...hmmm...her pose looks very man...lol...no offence,but really a little bit weird

the Sutra Repository

according to the guide,this pot is the smallest one in shaolin temple which was made in Ming Dynasty.it's huge,i think i can even take bath in it,though i don want to do so.
Monks use kungfu to cook,when they cook they'll hang the pot up.there's a joke,monks needn put salt in their meals,for sweat which dropped during monks cooking by kungfu makes the meals salty enough.

a weird tree.i wonder how it can be still alive

talin,mausoleum of those important monks

some magical Herbal Medicine grow in the mountain

Two Sri Lanka monks,according to our tour guide,they come to attend a international monk gathering.They r very friendly...i asked them to take a photo with me they agreed immediately.
Stelart:"Excuse me,may i take a photo with u?"
Monks:"Sure!"
...
S:Are u from India?
M:No,we r from Sri Lanka
S:ohhh
M:Are u "Dennis"?
S:huh?(At first,i thought he said Dennis(u know who's ex-bf :P I think my brain got quite blur,and their accent was a little strange for me)
M:Are u Danish?(Then i realized it's Danish not Dennis)
...
am i look like a Dane? or my accent sounds like a Dan?couldn't be

u can find this logo everywhere in the temple,it's acctually the logo of Buddhism.
however,it reminded me of Nazi
yeah,Nazi must copied monks' logo...stupid Nazi
don know if monks hav the copyright of that logo

Then i went to an Taoist temple nearby(Zhong yue temple中岳庙).The movi "Shaolin Temple" was shoted here,isn't it bizarre?why not shot in Shaolin temple?

a 1300 yrs old tree

Taoists in zhong yue temple

see more pics

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Jinan to Yinchuan to Xi'an to Zhengzhou

at 11:13 AM · 3 comments

don want to write,too troublesome...

Yin chuan(银川）

the most impressive thing in yinchan is it's clear sky

the lake is among the desert,called sand lake
（I thought i was very tired...)

Xi'an(西安）

coming soon...

Zheng zhou(郑州)

yuntai montain(云台山）
a good place t visit

it's called wild shan yao(山药 which grows on the yuntai montain,40RMB/dish,urgly but dilicious

Friday, April 25, 2008

Centre part of China

at 4:01 PM · 0 comments

I wander how anyone lives happily there

pic took in 灵武电厂

Thursday, May 03, 2007

又去济南liao

at 12:16 AM · 0 comments

本来爸是要带我去青岛，青岛是比济南好，但我都已经计划好了，而且会比较喜欢自己alone,这样行程比较自由，也可以边边角角都逛到，效率也会比较高。而且我走路很多，到处逛，记得上次带一个初中同学去青岛，走一走她就累了，赶公车还跑不动，很累赘。所以，lonely traveler万岁。另外在济南的泉城书店发现有lonely planet,我想这是最棒的treval guide,但是我现在买也没用，真不想上高中了，毕业后，考到新加坡去，就做一个backpacker.先去台湾（如果是燕姿开演唱会时去是最好了，上海那一场，还不够爽），香港，日本，东南亚（很原始的地方很多，可以体验真正的backpacking喔，只是要注意安全），赚多钱再去欧洲。
1号到济南就晚上很晚了，就去买了烧烤和啤酒（FYI:我是不喝酒的，只是看到是香橙啤酒很好奇，后来证明几乎没什么酒精的味道。也很少吃烧烤，因为健康很重要）

第二天，上午去看的漫展，15元，发现比李阳还坑人，李阳好歹也大讲了一整下午，展厅里几乎什么都没有，而且是小小的一层，也很不正规，而且又几乎全都是日本动漫的风格，过度关注痴迷日式动漫是一个彻头彻尾的错误，媒体的导向也要负责。有受骗的感觉，什么也没看到。
除了展厅，就去了银座，然后是新华书城，后来又逛了很多没法命名的地方，完全是兴趣问题，感觉收获比展览多多了，生活就是灵感的源泉。
另外有趣的是新华书城附近的一家珠宝店，2005年经过那里的时候就在放燕姿的《开始懂了》，印象很深，因为觉得是一家蛮大的钻石珠宝店，也会放流行歌曲。结果今天经过，还是在放《开始懂了》，本来以为是凑巧，但是我在旁边的一个店逛时，发现一首歌结束后，后面仍是《开始懂了》，原来就只有放这一首歌！！放了三年吗？还是更长？真是执着的店长。
逛着逛着觉得时间不早了，就座“人肉罐头”（济南的bus真的很像这个，尤其是101）回旅馆，洗了个澡，赶紧收拾了一下，赶火车，到时刚好检票，因为火车提前到了十分钟。wahaha,我做的是动力车的first class,还蛮不错，但又觉得跟二等车厢区别不大，却差十多块钱，而且我大部分时间都是在一二等车厢公用的吧厢渡过的，感觉有点浪费。不过真的不错，1个多小时就到潍坊了，但比起日本的慢多了。以后争取买二等就可以啦。不知道什么时候可以去体验一下Singapore Airline的first class,新航的first class看新闻讲真的很赞喔。是不是要等在机场碰见燕姿做first class再跟去做，向大龙那次在Malay一样，还是要多多赚钱。