Yan Dang Shan Hiking
We went by bus to Yann Dang Shan for the weekend, and it is very different then Hangzhou and Shanghai. Our hotel isn’t exactly perfect nor very good. Our room has two floors with stairs leading up to the second floor. My brother and I got the bottom floor and our beds are like metal. We went to a huge mountain one day and spent three quarters of the day climbing up and then back down. I felt like my knees were going to break. At the top we got to a little hut on a ledge of the mountain, and me and my Mom and Dad waited there while my mom’s students went up to the top of the mountain. Twenty minutes later they came back with 3 or 4 bags full of tea leaves they bought from a couple who ran a tea farm and hotel at the top. Then we hiked back down the mountain and met our bus at the start of the trail and he drove us back to the hotel. That night we ate dinner at a ‘fancy’ restaurant in town. It was the best restaurant in the town, even though the town was the poorest town we were going to visit on our whole China trip. So we had dinner there and I tried snake meat, snake skin, eel, and dried seaweed. It was all really good, especially the seaweed and the snake. Can’t wait to get home and see my dog and my friends, Thomas.
