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Stairway at Five Dragon Hill  
   

Stairway at Five Dragon Hill

This is a stone carving on the stairway up to the main temple at Five Dragon Hill just outside of Dandong. There is a random woman standing in front. If you look very carefully you can see a dragon carved into the bottom right of the stone.
Tiger Mountain and Five Dragon Hill

October 7th 2005
So we're finally on the train back to Dalian. Unfortunately we have tickets for regular seats instead of sleepers so I will be sleeping sitting up or curled into a ball tonight but soon we'll be back in Dalian. Yesterday I went to Five Dragon "Hill" (even though the character is "mountain" they call it "hill"). It was a really cool place. Unfortunately I had a cold so I didn't get to climb u ... read more
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