China, the Country: Another day in China...

Waking up in a 5-star hotel is never easy... especially after a couple of good beers on the eve. So we totally overslept the 6 o'clock morning buzz, and woke up towards 9 or 10... well, it's good enough - taking it easy and cool was our motto on this tripo...

This was a general state in the morning in the 5-star hotel...

This is the resort's front door...

Some of us were actually in a better state....

So in the morning we went out looking for more adventures. I didn't know I was travelling with a Taliban member.

Let me present you a well-known Taliban member - mister Eilekz! With a "Kyrgyzstan" sign on his head.

And on we went...

So we went on. We wanted to drink... and didn't know where to buy some water. So we went into a house on the board of the road. The people we met there... WOW! A father with a son and an apprentice. They were working on stone, artwork, stonework whatever you call it. The guy was very good, the Chinese motives carved on the stone - blew our minds away. Also this guy actually sent his works to be presented in the Chinese pavilion during the World Expo 2010. I mean come on! In the middle of nowhere we meet a guy who is that talented. On top of that he played violin - some old Chinese moody-mood. We stood there with jaws on the floor. The old man blew us away.

The father, the sun and the apprentice... All talented Chinese people! :-)

After meeting this nice group of masculine hand workers... we decided to climb up one of the 8 sacred mountains - Qi-Yun (whatever the spelling is). So we went in via a village and in every house we looked into - there was a portrait of Mao.

Dragon and Tiger movie set.

The ascension begins:

The morale is high!

This is where we were supposed to mount.

Nice water-melon on top of the sacred mountain! Does Alex look funnier that myself?!?! Ahahah

We were so close to the paradise on the top of that mountain... but it was too expensive to go there :-) ... We refused to pay 75 monopolies each to get into paradise... Yeah, well, hell must be more interesting to go to... and it's inexpensive from what I've heard.

These are the Charons of the Chinese mythology... :-) For a small pay they would bring you to the first and the second gate of the paradise on top of that mountain. But these mythical creatures do not function during the day, they wake up at night, when the Moon light reveals who we really are... :-)

So without disturbing the ancient beings we went down the mountain.