Hostelling at 7000ft - Hua Shan
June 14th 2006 The 15p per hour internet cafe is providing much welcome relief and relaxation after the exertion of the past 36 hours. At 10am yesterday morning we boarded a minibus outside Xian train station bound for Hua Shan (mount Hua, a famous taoist mountain with 5 peaks, 120km east of Xian). We left at 11:30...
We arrived 1 and a half hours later, and the sky was grey and heavy with light rain, even at t
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