Sunday, January 17, 2010

Beijing 6.1 -Mountain Resort-

Mountain Resort in Chinese read 'pi su sang chuan' in straight translation mean 'avoid heat mountain resort'... The resort was build during peace and prosperity time of the kingdom and during that period citizen has grown fear of war thus one of the reason for it construction was to encourage its citizen to enhance their hunting skills which will be important during war times. The chinese characters on the board were written wrongly by the emperor himself but yet no one dare to right his wrong. To err is humane, to forgive is divine... He was indeed human!
The main chamber was build using a special kinda wood which were brought to Chengde through river from Yunnan. This kinda wood produce fragrance and its scare away insects. The main chamber is the only structure in the world that is build by this kinda wood. During world war2, Japanese soldiers damaged the structure by taking wood out of it for protection from insect. But restoration works has been done by the current gomen.
Once upon a time in china, 8 countries came to bully China. China was force to sign an unfair peace treaty and till today Chinese believe that the west & Japanese owe them. That's why making imitation of western and japs good are kinda 'OK" if not "patriotic' for them.
Mountain resort cover land areas of 6km2. During winter time (-15), walking will surely kill me. We had no choice but to follow the tour guide's advice to take the bus, I would love to walk as I could have taken more photos as this mountain resort is famous for scenic view which were copied from famous landscaped gardens in Southern China.
I couldnt really enjoy my vacation in China because of the Freezing weather. The only 'enjoyment' was taking hot food & drinks. A HOT-dog cost RMB5 & a can of HOT-coffee too, this stuffs would have cost 60% less in supermarket. But now its not the time to save money. The best part about visiting during freezing condition was that there were less people, lot less than usual.
This was the place where The 1st Pearl Princess "Wan Chu Kak Kak" was filmed, the exact location where Zhao Wei kick something and flown over the roof and picked up by the Hero? I'm not sure who anyway I don't care... not my typo movie.
The hot tin of coffee wasnt just good enough for drinking. It was very good to warm the hand. There were few stalls along the way and we could exchange for a hotter one at the next stall. For RMB5 that's awesome and that's only okay if you don't let the hawker know you didn't bought from them.
Yeah! My shoes again... cracking my the ice on the lake! Hahaha...

A good shoes but too thin for cold weather. Badminton shoes suppose to be thin and that's why its actually not good for winter time. I seen our tourguide wearing something like 2inches thick...
There were still fishes living under the frozen lake as the ice can only be as thick as 6inches or 6feet, I am not sure. anyway... ice in this lake was strong enough for people to play on it.
I seen the fattest cat for real in Chengde... FATCAT so cutie.
REHE (Hot River) is only 300m long, the shortest river in the world. Its source from a hotspring thus in the winter, the water will never form ice. Good for the fishes (red dots) as they can still feed, while others has to hirbenate.
It looks like Koi to me...
Deer... The game for hunting in the older days and now... locked up! So pitiful, either being hunted or locked up! Hard choice to made.

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