The last major site I haven't seen in Zhangjaijie was Tianmin Mountain (天门山), located a ways from my hotel in Zhangjaijie City proper. After an early morning bus ride, my met my friend of a friend from a few days ago to head on up the mountain. It seemed like the only way for tourists to get up Tianmin Mountain was by taking ether the cable car or escalator, since it was raining we took the cable car. The views of the surrounding countryside and of Zhangjiajie City were quite impressive from that hight. There is not much to say about the Mountain itself, more good hikes and impressive views. Interestingly the rain turned to snow on the Mountain and draped the surrounding mountains in a gray fog. It felt almost Kong-Fu movie esk. To amplify the Kong-Fu feel, Tianmin Mountain has a Buddhist and other Chinese deities temple. Temples in China are always a bit odd. While they have worshippers, unlike many Vietnamese temples, they don't seem to have many monks, unlike Laos and Thailand, and most of the worshippers seem to be Chinese tourists. I think a touristy thing to do in this country is go to temple. The cable car ride down was a bit freaky. The car actually stopped twice for some reason, and crawled along the rest of the time. My local friend of a friend commented that the cable cars were scarier than the glass bridge over the Zhangjaijie Grand Canyon. We then bought my bus ticket to my next stop, Fenghuang County (凤凰县), also know as Phoenix Ancient Town.
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Dad
1/24/2017 09:51:57 pm
You seem to eat more bread-type products and noodles than rice. Is that the regional thing?
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Jared Paul Miller
1/24/2017 09:54:56 pm
The bread is kind of popular everywhere now. it is just easy to buy one portion of bread so I have been doing that more now that I am traveling and don't have storage. Noodles/rice are definitely a north/south regional thing. The northerners eat more noodles while the southerners eat more rice. You can find online a joke noodle/rice line map of China.
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Gramma M
1/24/2017 11:39:04 pm
Guess if you want to find a fellow American tourist, all you have to do is go to the nearest temple.
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