Today I started form the bottom and now I'm here. With a local friend of a friend as my guide I ventured down into the Yellow Dragon Caves (黄龙洞). According to People's Daily, legend has it that a dragon actually lived in the caves at one point. From the size of the caves, I could see how the primitive man could draw this conclusion. Normally the caves are lit up with LED lights of all colors. While this was true for part of our journey, the power in the caves kept failing, forcing us to use our phones as light sources if we wanted to continue on. One old man became our caving buddy after he, somewhat rightly in my opinion, assumed the caves would be lit so didn't bring an extra light. It was interesting to see the caves as ancient humans once did, as in hardly see them at all. After a quick lunch we headed off to the Buzzfeed famous Glass Bottom Bridge that spans the Zhangjaijie Grand Canyon. Before we could enter, we had to fight with the staff to get my student discount. The normal reason for rejecting foreign students for the student discount is they don't have a student ID from a Chinese university. Much to their surprise, I actually have a Chinese student ID so they gave me the discount. While Buzzfeed liked to show images of terrified young Chinese women grasping to the steel for dear life, that wasn't the case. The Israeli engineers and architects who made the Glass Bottom Bridge made it feel super secure. Other than me, the Bridge consisted of entirely happy Chinese people of all ages taking fun photos. The large number of people on the bridge helped add to the sense of security. Finally, there is also less glass on the world's longest glass bottom bridge than you would think. After getting back to Wulingyuan, where my hotel is, and parting ways I had some not bad duck noodles. They only cost 13RMB, or about 2USD, so almost anything would have been not bad. But the noodles I got were actually pretty good.
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sharon
1/20/2017 10:02:34 pm
Is that the glass bridge? !! Amazing
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Jared Paul Miller
1/20/2017 10:03:15 pm
Yup, that it is. it was defiantly kind of cool.
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Dad
1/21/2017 12:43:00 am
Fighting for that student discount was probably about the same price as your duck dinner... so you basically ate for free. Good job.
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