Internship-Gutianshan, China (cont'd)

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- Despite all of these dangerous-looking insects, Maria insists on being most scared of your common earthworm, because it's "just disgusting." She screams "Holy @$&!" and I look for a poisonous snake with shovel-in-hand, but an earthworm wiggles by. A big bug with the jaws of, well, "Jaws" crawls towards her with malicious intent and she doesn't care. I care.

- Oh yes. Planes, trains and automobiles. It was (a 3-hour train from Freiburg to Frankfurt,) an 11-hour flight, 6-hour train ride and a 2-3 hour taxi ride to the hotel. The train ride was authentic loaded with Chinese, soup and staring (mostly not from us).
- Don't know what else to write here, but I should mention that I will work another 3-4 weeks after my short trip to Shanghai. After the work, I will try to travel in other parts of China by myself. I'll send word of the trip and such, but it depends on time. I hope you like the pictures and I hope all is well with you.

Peace,

Shane

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Photos

One of the bugs (Caribid)
It was bigger and scarier in real life... Actually, this guy was quite nice and didn't want to hurt us, until I put my finger on him...

Mount Sanqingshan
Temple

Town: Zu Chuang
A local restaurant--better food than the nice hotel.

Mount Sanqingshan
We got rained on and it was very scary being high on a single-track wood trail surrounded by boulders and granite mountain tops whilst lightning struck and thunder sounded... it was awesome, 'cause we're still here.

Mount Sanqingshan
Taoist temple

Uhm, a dog.
No, as far as I know they don't eat them in this region.

Main Experiment Site
Where I will be a mountain goat in the sun.