Monday, April 6, 2009

Day 34 & 35 - The 2 Day 1 Night stay

Day 34
We had to meet the rest at the main entrance at 7am on that Sunday morning. We reached our destination at about 12pm and I was thinking of food. Ha ha!Align Left Lucky me, we had lunch soon after. We also checked into our respective rooms. Supposedly two in a room, since neither one of us wants to be and let the other sleep alone, three of us decided to merge beds and sleep together. (:

during lunch time (:
Oof! Face "kenna" squash. ROFL
happy-'Three'-friends.

Making full use of the time; we had to meet back at the carpark at 2.30pm for the Mei Ren Gu - Beauty Lake visit. (:

Mei Ren Gu - Beauty Lake Visit Photos

Near the entrance are filled with yellow flowers.

Don't think anyone could resist not taking photos with them (:
Entrance

Local Children playing by the banks of the river.
We were going up, up and away to the waterfall areas. (:
Ben fell and was hurt along the way.
The wound looks pretty bad. 

Live singers ~ 
Don't understand what they are singing but they sure have rhythm.
and my favourite part of all, they are wearing those long-ago costumes!
*Excited*

((:
with my classmates.

opposing me is this:
One of the fabulous waterfall.


At the top, right side of this waterfall, there's a maiden beauty sofa and curtains- Sort of those fancy beds that has curtains, but they are made of rocks! It was said that its the place where the Beauty sleeps. There's also a small 'belle lake' (like bath tub) for the Beauty to "bathe" in. 
With Mr Wong and Zee Min.
Trying out Malay Dance Pose.
LOL!

Just opposing us is the Lover's waterfall:

(from Clive's blog) I think all of us are inside.

The beautiful streams were used to wash clothes in the olden days, there's a lone statue of a woman washing her clothes for future generations, like us, to reminisce the past and be aware of how convenient the world that we live in are.

Signboards we noticed:
The rocks are all jutting out in the pathways.
(:
You can't disagree, can you? (:



Before dining at the same place again for dinner, we visited the local- mushroom farm near our resort.

Local- Mushroom Farm Photos:

Mushrooms grow on logs.

This bridge can hold up to 10 people at a time. 
Thrilling walk (:


By the way, there's this yellow notice at the entrance of the door if the family followed the one-child policy rule. Some notice that says Legal Family in Chinese.
Rearing of Chickens.
Chicken shit looks a lot like bird shit.
Ya hor, chickens are bird. -.-

the beautiful sun. I dint know I missed the sun so much till I finally felt its warmth again. 

When you're always there,
You're almost suffocating.
Ever since you're absence,
I basked in your attention
whenever I can.


I could skip a flat pebble till three times maximum after a few tries. Average was 2. Minimum was a "plop". ha ha!

Campfire Local Style:
Presenting the entertainment; This man jumped around on glass! Wow, right?
The same man stepped on hot, sharp knife blades.
Double wow, right?
Mass Cha-cha dance and the standard go-around the fire dance. (:
Karaoke Next. LSCT students went first.
Followed by Clive (:

Masita, Hajar, Hardy, Mengzhen and Fran sang too. Brave of them.

I sat and support only (:




Wrapped it up with everyone on stage singing a "Friend" song in Chinese. I was playing with the bubbles. LOL, can't sing la. =)

Went back to the resort around 8 or 9 plus. Gawk at the TV until Hash found a channel where they are showing english show! It was a shark movie! I think its Jaws. No idea. Haha. Didn't like these kinds of movie before. Hha. I watched it till the end with my half-closed eyes. Next show was a Jackie Chan movie. Felt asleep after about 10 minutes of watching. haha.

Day 35
The Luling Tour is actually on the second day.
Three of us won't late this time (;

Lulin Tour Photos:
Somewhere at the Entrance

Sighs. 

There were quite alot of stairs.

Mr Wong told me not to cheat his feelings.
"I climb, you climb hor. Don't cheat my feelings."
Waa, teacher smart already.
haha



Classmates. (:
a place to see the time in the past


I wonder how you survived out here
No TV, no PSP, no books to read
How fresh the air you breathe
How easy you made it seem.

There are alot of stories that the guide told us along the way. One of them is this tree:
This tree symbolises Eternal love because of the faithful vines (8 kinds of them) who grew old with the tree.. like lovers.


Moon-Lake O_O
With Xinhui and one of the legendary heroes.


Playing the Er-hu. Traditional instrument. Produces sad notes and gloomy atmosphere though.

The above spot where the Er-hu musician and the statue is found was the meeting place of joined alliances, whom are regarded as heroes now. There was a Big Chess near the statue, to symbolise the strategies that were thought of by these heroes.

Other stories includes the robbers' village, an old house(hut), poem on the stone, how the camel-stone is formed and etc.


battle place.
There were loud stereo playing war drums. It seems like real war with the sounds and the big army soldiers. Quite scary.
WG showing off muscles, haha!
surprisingly, it's light.

There was a hut to tryout archery, because of many people and I guess, most of us dallied around too much taking photos, I reached the hut and was greeted by "LUNCH TIME ALREADY! LET'S GO!" *heartbreaks* Sad 'coz I walked up all the way till the hut and was told to retreat back =(


Next stop after having lunch at the same place was the cave:

Kong Shan Dong- Cave Photos:

Entrance

There's a sign saying: Mao Zhe Dong loves the people there in three different languages. None I can read, by the way.
Entrance Cave.

The cave was chilly inside. "Free air-con", said Mr Loh. I guess its true. Quite a unique experience. I saw a Toad and Turtle Lover, a musical instrument made by the rocks, cool signboards reading through its water reflection, a bed for newly weds to share their first night in etc.

The Cave tour lasted about 45 mins to 1 hour. It had to end up with a long, spiral staircase. I'm exhausted by that. 

Flexsim Assignment is still half done. Will try to finish it tomorrow.
P.S. My camera is under repair and "hibernating", sobs, photos are taken using Xinhui's, Hashanah's and Weiguang's camera. Thanks, you all!
P.P.S. Some are grabbed from other MDE bloggers as well.