China & Snowy Mountain (III)

Sienz already blogging about bloody China!!!


Last post then I'm done about President Mao's land.

Probably the highlight of my trip was visiting Snowy Mountain. I have a love hate relationship with snow. I will be like YAY! SNOW! on day 1, and on the second day if it snows again I get really peeved and wonder when is it gonna stop snowing.


The tribes from all around China did a really impressive performance. (apparently the director is the same dude who directed the Beijing Olympics 2009)

Because we were so high about sea-level my mom had a bit of trouble breathing >_<

I was effin addicted to this biscuit. I ate this as much as I ate rice!!

My brother the terrorist. LOLOLOLOLOLOL. wtf if I saw him on the tube I would think he had bombs strapped underneath his jacket.

Before we went up the mountain the tour brought us to this seriously gorgeous lake at the foot of the mountain:

They have seaweed in there called "spiralli seaweed" which apparently only grows in a few parts of the world!

Oh another advice, never go to China during CNY. Because its a public holiday for all of China. Then guess how many people are on holiday in China.

Bingo.

We ended up queuing for 3 hours just to sit on a bloody cable car to snow mountain. GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Snow snow snow!!!!!!

Totally snowed in. Quite scary isn't it? It was especially heavy snowfall that day.

To be honest I only stayed outside in the snow for a total of 5 grand minutes. Then I couldn't take it anymore and ran back into the shelter.

I'm bloody shit when it comes to cold weather. and it was only -15degrees!!








One thing I really like about this place is that are the only culture that still uses hieroglyphics (FUCK!! I actually spelt it right on the first try! Am I awesome or what?).

Dongba is the name of the village. But it also means village Shaman.

Eg. This one means 'to give or offering'

This one means snow is falling.

This one means 'with child'

The coolest thing is that they are all still being used today :D

Their really cool totem. The many many faces on the totem is suppose to symbolize the spirits of the dead and of nature.

Something equivalent to the meaning 'The gods are amongst us"

In dongba language that means: Yak Meat! (which is awesome btw)

And this concludes my post on China!