Why, Hengshan, Why???

05.10.2013

For my last adventure of the week, I decided to go to the Taoist mountain of "fire". There are five for all the earth's elements and the one in my province happens to be the one that is governed by a "fire keeper" guy.

I couldn't get out of bed early enough, so by the time I made it to Hengshan, I had to take the minibus up to the summit. Luckily there was still quite the hike up to the top, so I didn't feel like a total sloth for doing that.

It was a really nice sunset.

I walked down the hill part way, and found a traditional Chinese opera that was playing in the square. When I bought my bus ticket home, it said 23:00 on the slip of paper they gave me. So, I assumed I could board my bus at that time. Wrong. I showed up at 9 p.m. just in case. Of course, no one was there. I tried to talk to some guy who was standing in front of the buses but he didn't seem to know what I was talking about. I called May and she translated some things for me, but the real matter was that I'd have to go and find a place to sleep until the morning. Ugh. Beautiful mountain, horrible bus service.

On top of Heng Shan