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Huang Shan, China – #1 yellow mountain – a must hike mountain for hiker

May 26, 2007 By Terence Chang 6 Comments

First of all, click here to see the slide show. Yellow Mountain Slide Show

If you are a hiker and you have never hiked to this number one mountain in China, you will be shame on yourself. The mountain is called Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain in Chinese). It’s one of the most known mountains in the Chinese painting. It’s one of the most weird and beautiful mountain in the world too. The weather in the mountain could change four seasons in one day. You can have Spring in the morning, Summer at noon, Autumn in the afternoon and winter at night.There are only few hotels (about 5) in the mountain. If you decide to stay in the mountain, you’d better book the hotel when you arrival in the village though your hostel host or hotel manager. The only reason you will stay in the mountain is to watch the cloud sea and sun rise. The hotel price in the mountain is very expensive and you sometimes have to share room with 6+ other strengers. You are recommend to carry as little items as possible and leave your luggage in the hotel in the village. These are some people who just don’t listen. So they have to turn around and back down to the village. Shame on them! I will tell you why!

Yellow Mountain

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Yang Shuo, China – A peaceful moment of my life

May 25, 2007 By Terence Chang 1 Comment

Yahg Shuo, China

Last year, My wife and I took 7 months off and travel to Asia (Taiwan, Hong Kong and China). That was a peaceful moment in our life that we have no worry, no fear, no job and no regrets. We have waited for that vacation for years. We went to many many places and decided to stop at Yang Shuo, China for about two weeks. We were so relaxe and relieve, just like we were in the heaven. I took many photos with my Nikon D70s. The weather was cloudy, but perfect for summer vacation. Click here to view the slideshow.

We plan to go there again this summer, we have more places to go. 50% of the people there are foreigner. That is one of the famous places in China. If you look at the Chinese painting, you will know what I am talking about.You can see more photos/slide shows from my photography page.

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Nikon D70S – Mexico Trip

May 17, 2007 By Terence Chang 4 Comments

Last year in April, I took my Nikon D70s to Mexico. A 9 days 8 nights cruise tour. It was great to have my Nikon D70s travel with me. I, of course, took my Nikon D70s with me to Asia (China and Taiwan). It was a great experience that I took over 6000 pictures in just few months. You can find my photography on AOL’s wonderful Pictures servic here.
這是我第一次帶著Nikon D70S去這麼遠的地方. 9天8夜的遊輪之旅去了墨西哥的西岸.

This is the sculpture near the beach. It look like a stair to the heaven.

天堂之梯

A weird stone wall look hell on the lover’s beach at Carbo San Lucas, Mexico (Lands End)

情人海岸亂石崗千古情人的化石

海門

汪洋中的一條船墨西哥海軍的港口檢察船

孤燈相伴

漁人: Catch me if you can! 鳥: 大伙兒上! 別讓魚跑了!

父子情深

看誰快

形影不離天涯兩相隨

人去樓空獨留清風

Cabo San Lucas 的陸地盡頭右邊的石頭像不像恐龍喝水?

Cabo San Lucas 的陸地盡頭及愛人海灘. 世界惟一跨兩個海洋的砂灘

浪來了該是出發的時候了

景物依舊人事全非

LA海港的燈塔地平線的啟始點

LA海港的燈塔海洋的對角線

In this vacation, we left Phoenix Arizona and headed to Log Angles. We stayed in one of our families house in Orange Country. Then we took the curise tour with norwegian star cruise line. It took us to the following Mexico cities.
Acapulco, Mexico’s second largest tour city after Cancun.
Zihuatanejo and Ixtapa‘s little cancun beach
Puerto Vallarta‘s beach
Cabo San Lucas – The land’s end and Lover’s beach. The only beach in the world, that has two oceans around.

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Taking Luggage to the Yellow Mountain in China – No Kidding

May 15, 2007 By Terence Chang 3 Comments

Can you believe that people actually carry so much of their luggages on to the #1 mountain in China? We were told by the hostel staff to carry as little as we can to the top of the mountain, if we need to stay over night in the mountain.

Just can’t believe that some people just carry so much. I was unable to stop laughing after seeing the stupid people. I bet those are the nice parents who carry the luggage for their children. In China, Children are the king. By the way, the hotel in the Mountain do NOT store your luggage. So you should leave your luggage at the hotel in the village.

This is the urban view of the Yellow Mountain.

The most exciting trail I have ever done!

You can find out more Yellow Mountain Photos below.
2006 China – Yellow Mountain

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Garmin GPS eTrex in China – Yellow Mountain

March 23, 2007 By Terence Chang 1 Comment

Before I came on 6 months travel to Asia, I decide to get a GPS device to record where I stop and where I went. I records all of the waypoints and upload them to a small program I wrote. It will list the major waypoint on Google Maps. Which allows me to look at the big pictures. I use this GPS device in the Yellow Mountain (HuaShan). The mountain is so beautiful. It’s named the #1 mountain in China. If you’ve there, you will agree with me.

So I took my GPS into the mountain. That actually tells me where I am and what are the latitude and longitude. So we know how far we staill need to climb in the mountain. At the end, we spent 9 hours up and down in the mountian. It doesn’t include the time we spend in the cable cart up and down the mountain. We cannot believe that we finish the the #1 mountain in one day.

Next time I will stay over night in the mountain to see the sun rise. The following pictures are one of the best scene I love. It’s so scary. We don’t know how people make this pathway. It’s unbelievable.

We pass the challenge and look back what we have done. That’s really scary.

Back to my GPS, it’s the most basic model from Garmin. It doesn’t support the map, because it’s not compatible with Chinese version of map and there is no map in China. So why spent few hundred $$ while I will not be able to take advantage from it.

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Travel Photos – YangShuo, China

March 23, 2007 By Terence Chang 3 Comments

Again, I can resist to watch those photos and dream about to come back again. The weather changed every seasons, so it will be great to come back in spring. So I can enjoy the high water and fog season.

There are two major rivers, one is bigger one is smaller. They all look different. This place is so quiet. You can take the boat service, which will take you to the up side of the town. It’s so beautiful.

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Travel Photo – YangShuo, China

March 22, 2007 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

This is one of the pictures I took while traveling in China for months. This photo is taken at YangShuo in China. The river is so calm. We got up early and took the banboom draft on the river. There is no one else except my wife, me and our couple friends. This is one of the best vacation place in China. It’s so beautiful. There are fishman fishing along the river. Local people’s daily life are all depended on this river. Women wash hair and their cloths at right next to each other. That’s weird.

One Chinese food I really love in that small town is the rice noodle. It’s a bowel is huge and it’s so spicy. We were staying in the town for more than a week. We almost have the noodle every morning. It’s interesting that every restaurant has different flavor. You just got to taste all of them one by one.