Third Day, 10th December 2009

The next morning, we went to 天子山by taking cable car.

(天子山 Tian Zi Shan)

御 笔峰 is one of the attractive sceneries to be found as the mountains attached together which looked like the Chinese brush for calligraphy.

(御笔峰 yu bi feng)

This mountain is called云青岩. Also, you would notice that a mountain like仙女献花. However, we weren't lucky enough to witness this beautiful scenery as the mist covered the area.

There is a park called 贺龙公园. It is to remember贺龙元帅 who lead the soldiers in the war successfully.

(贺龙元帅)

The most interesting is the 天下第一桥 which the bridge is formed naturally. They believed that couples would have everlasting relationship by making a wish. Some bought their padlocks and throw the keys as a symbol for their strong marriage. This reminded me a Taiwanese drama, 恶作剧之吻2.

(天下第一桥)

We tried 西湖楼湘菜 at 天桥餐厅. The rice was served by using the bamboo which is something special. However, the taste of the food was quite salty. Perhaps, this is to preserve the meat and vegetable.

(西湖楼湘菜)

After lunch, we took the world's highest elevator; height is 326m -百龙电梯上在袁家界. It only took 2 minutes to reach the ground floor.

(百龙电梯上在袁家界)

金 鞭溪is a mini waterfall. The water was crystal clear and there are plenty of colourful stones. I believed this is place where 李军声collected the stone and sand for his painting. Besides, it’s a place where Zhang’s Family was buried (张家幕 ).

(金鞭溪)

After that, we watched the artistic of mountains (十里画廊) such as 采药老人，三姐妹,三家人,手掌，etc. It’s based on your perception of shape of mountains.

(采药老人)

(三姐妹)

China tour guide, 小李brought us to jewelry shop which is full of pearls and jade. I already made up my mind not to buy anything as I couldn't afford. All of us went into a room to listen the promoters' talk. While 阿妹 explaining the historical background, she mentioned this, “You're very lucky that our boss has just arrived and wish to see you.” My first thought was, “This is some kind like a Hong Kong movie.
It's really happened. The lady boss, Man Ling gestured us friendly. Her grandson is just born in 7 months and she was told that her lucky number is 13 and 17. It's just coincidence that our tour consisted of 13 people so she paid a visit. After hearing all her “sweet talk”, we believed in her. She even offered us with an attractive price for the Jade. Therefore, most of us bought it as gift for friends and family including me. I heard that my boss bought RMB30,000 for the bracelet jade for his mum. 小李 was smiling when he saw us. Look like he earned a FAT commission. Haha... He promised to buy us a drink.

During our dinner, the video photographer showed us the film. Mr Lim announced that who was the main actor or actress need to buy the DVD. Haha.. In the beginning, we laughed at Charine and WN as they did praying at the天门洞 whereas the rest of us went to climb the staircase.

Do you know how much is the DVD cost? It's RMB200 (RM100). My gosh.. It's very expensive. Original DVD won't cost at that price. Thus, the video photographer shot the video was not in good quality. Her face expression turned immediately after knowing that we just need a DVD. With the advanced technology, we could burn a CD easily.

After dinner, all of us decided to take a walk outside our hotel. The price of clothes and shoes were quite cheap. It's worth to buy. My boss's wife and his sister bought a lot of clothes and shoes. Haha... We also visited their supermarket. My boss recommended us the China Maggie Beef Mee so we bought some. They have all sizes of sausages which we couldn't find it in Malaysia.

There is an interesting incident. Four of us went to look for long John and enter a shop. When we need assistant about the clothes, the person in-charged wasn't respond to our request. Do you know what she is doing? She was too “FOCUS” playing mahjong with her friends until my colleague have to ask courtesy like “Sorry for disturbing you from playing mahjong, we wish to ask you about the long John.” Then only the lady stopped her game. For your information, our China tour guide told us that gambling is one of the main their entertainments.