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Day 19
Monday, March 22, 2010

20MAR10

The start of our trip to the Wudang Mountain, a very famous Taoist Mountain in China. Everyone hd to be at the school gate by 7am, even earlier than last week's trip. This time, the bus ride to the mountain took around 6 hours. After which, we changed to shuttle buses on the mountains which brought us to our touring destinations.
Since it is a Taoist Mountain, hence the whole mountain is filled with Taoist Temples. Therefore, all of our 3 destinations are temples.
There were loads of smoke from the burning of incense, and the temples were crowded from touring tourists like us, and the taoist worshippers who have came to pray. I noticed that most of the worshippers wore yellow aprons like this.I guess it is for easier identification, to show that they are a taoists.

There were many shops selling swords.On one of them i saw "Ward Off Evil Sword". So i guess the purpose of all those swords in for the taoists to ward off all evil. I don't know how they do that, but the swords were real and looked very sharp.

At 1 of our destinations, we were offered tea to drink. After drinking about 3 cups of the tea, the mineral water tasted sweet, like what the person had said.I guess this was due to the the minerals in the mineral water reacting with some components in the tea to form that sweet taste. And it surprised me as i didn't really believed her at first.

In the evening, we went to have dinner and checked into the hotel. We had a different hotel from the other LSCT guys because there weren't enough rooms in their hotel. So we shared a hotel with the ICT people. We were surprised at how nicely furnished the hotel room was.But sadly, we were only staying there for the night.

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