31 March 2012
In the morning, my breakfast was simple. I ate an orange and a banana before the tour to Du Jiang Yan and Qing Chen Shan. We met downstairs at 8am and got on the bus, it took us about 2 hours to reach Du Jiang Yan. When we got there, the weather was hot and everyone bought ice cream but very expensive.
We walked along the river bank and reached the main dam about 20 minutes, it was built about 2000 years ago.
It splits the river water in to two channels so as to prevent flooding to Chengdu floodplains. Down the river channel, a distributary was created to help divert the excessive river water to Yangtze River instead of the plains. It is for the high rainfall in June and July. This is because China is in the Tropical Monsoon Section where rainfall is not consistent like Singapore.
After that and our lunch, we went to Qing Chen Shan which is the birth place of Taoism. This mountain is not as cold as E’ Mei and no snow. The mountain is full of stairs; we walked first after passing through the entrance, next we climbed and climbed until we got to the cable car station. The wait is not that long compared to E’ Mei’s one.
When we got up through the cable car, we were at the middle point of the mountain. Unfortunately, when we were at that point of time, it was already 4pm and we have to get back here at 5pm before the cable car station closes.
We used the time to climb as high as we could with our stamina (not much energy left), we took a short rest when we reached another temple about 10 minutes. We took a few shots before we climb down and reached back to the entrance at 5.30pm. Our dinner was near the mountain, the meal was good and for the first time the soup was the best tasting one yet! The rice was not sticky but just nice and the dishes were good.
We arrived around 9pm in school; all of us were tired from the 2 hour journey back.
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