Up the Bamboo Forest
Take bus number 68 up to the Cherry Blossom Garden 樱花公园 [ying1hua1gong1yuan2] stop. From here, you can do at least two things. (1) Visit the not-very-centrally-located Airforce Memorial; (2) Climb the Purple Gold Mountain via a couple of trails.
This time round, we tried a trail that led us up not the mountain, but up a mound and down again. Of course, we were fortunate enough to get lost nearby a military outpost where kind-hearted military men decided against putting us in detention…
Besides the gloriously aromatic climb up the mound, we also became Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons for that brief moment…
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Undeterred, we added another member to the team (guess who?) and made it up the mountain. Below is a film roll of some representative photos for you guys: Lara, Wu Daqing, Mark, Charat…
And here are some shots of the climb in indian file.
