http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , China , Shandong , Tai Shan en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:12:15 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:12:15 UTC You're been spending your timeThinking about why you think so muchIf there was ever a timenow would be time to see your time is limitedEverybody here is a cloudAnd everybody will evaporate sinceYou came up from the groundFrom a million little pieces have you found where your place isCloud Cult613 1215PM beginning of bus rideEvery place is the same place until you force yr insides to http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-288453.html Although I didn't get a chance to climb Mt. Fuji I knew there would be other mountain climbing opportunities on my trip. I wouldn't have to wait very long and a week into China I found myself climbing Mt. Tai Shan. Tai Shan is the most revered of China's five sacred Taoist peaks. Emperors Chairman Mao and even Confucious himself has risen to the challenge of reaching its summit. It's said http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-274800.html Taishan MountainThis weekend we finally managed to climb Taishan the large 4000ft mountain which we are staying under. Regular readers will know we had been to the top of the mountain on National Day by bus and cable car although due to bad weather we were not really able to see anything at all. Our trip this time was quite different the weather was cool and a little misty. We started from the m http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-226047.html It's been a little while as we've been busy.....I think we left you in Ulaan Baatar where we were staying in an apartment some way from the centre of town. The following morning as we were getting ready to go out what appeared to be disaster struck. An awkward twist in the small room my back seized up. While not as bad as it has been I Sarah still could not stand up straight and walk without http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-211963.html Laura Well look at it this way If anyone back home asks they won't believe what you did for National Day.Amy It's certainly priceless.Chris Definitely 'without price'...October the 1st is China's National Day. This year the Powers that Be are making a thing of it being the last National Day before the Olympics starts. All us Foreigners were invited by the University to go on an alle http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-207830.html Enroute from Nanjing to Beijing it was well worth 3 nights stopping at Tai'an at the foot of Mount Tai'Shan. Mount Tai' a popular pilgrimage for Chinese Buddists and tourists alike. Many visitors opt for a bus cable car trip to the summit like us rather than facing the challenge of climbing a vigorous 6660 steps We did descend to the mid way gate covering 2500 steps Temples shrines fe http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-206621.html Wow where do I begin Slowly but surely I am getting settled in acquainting myself with the immediate and nonimmediate surroundings and gaining more confidence in my ability to do anything and everything.I have begun teaching two of my classes thus far an adult Oral English class and a freshmansophomore American British Culture. The adult class turns out to be 17 professionals from an o http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-200575.html Mount Tai is known as one of the Five Sacred Mountains of Taoism and is described by the Lonely Planet as the most climbed mountain in the world though I doubt this to be true. It is said to be associated with sunrise birth and renewal and they say those who climb it live to be 100 Which I sure hope is NOT true. Just so you understand this mountain is 1545 metres high with some 6293 of http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-182744.html A handful of us ventured out to Qufu and Tai an the last week of May. Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius. Taian is home to Taishan one of five sacred mountains in China and a mountain that Confucius himself climbed.We took the train to Qufu and this was my first time on a regular Chinese train. My trip to Beijing was on the fasttrain new highspeed train which is quite luxurious. http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-171739.html We namen in Qufu de bus naar Tai'an 16Y 1 uur daar werden we afgezet op het plein vr het treinstation. Je wordt er onmiddellijk aangesproken door mensen die hotels aanbieden. We probeerden eerst wat informatie in te winnen en een Engelstalige kaart van de Taishan te bemachtigen in het Touist Information Service kantoor op het stationsplein. Men gaf er wel de nodige uitleg over bussen en http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-165444.html Because we are nearly finished the school decided for our going away they would shut down for two days and take a trip to a nearby mountain named TaiShan. It is touted here as the most famous mountain in China and I have read that it is the most climbed mountain in the world. Wich doesn't suprise me after seeing the amount of people going up and down while we were there All the way up the have http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-91040.html Day 1We arrived in Tairsquoan the town at the foot of Tai Shan at about half six in the morning bought tickets for our onward journey to Beijing still no sleeperrsquos available but we managed to book seats this time and headed off in a taxi to find a hotel we were taken to a hotel too far out of town but using my phrasebook I managed to talk the driver into taking us to a hotel nearer http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/China/Shandong/Tai-Shan/blog-89937.html