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China: Pepper buying bracelets
Pepper bought a bracelet of wooden prayer beads for 1 RMB or about 15 cents.
China: Me buying medicinal mushrooms
Pepper took this shot of me buying two more mushrooms on my way back down and through the Pagoda Forest.
China: Cable car ride up Mount Song
On the way up and down the mountain we were stared at by almost every other rider going the opposite direction. Some took pictures of us. Many said “hello” in the same almost parrot-like voice.
China: three wheeled car
We decided to pay the additional fee and take the cable car up the sacred mountain. Yeah, they have a tram set up to ascend the sacred mountain. Oh well… I bet we wouldn’t have gone up if we had to hike the whole way. On the short walk to the base of the tram …
China: Pagoda Forest
The Pagoda Forest is a collection of burial pagodas. The number of layers indicated the importance of the deceased. There were hundreds of the pagodas.
China: Herbalist
He caught me photographing his collection of medicines and suggested i buy one of the mushrooms. It cost me 20 RMB – or just under $3.
China: Medicine
While walking through the Pagoda forest we came up to this collection of herbs and mushrooms. Fortunately we had hired a guide to take us through the monastery and the Pagoda Forest and she was able to explain that the mushrooms were to be steeped in wine and were somehow good for your stomach and …
China: little boy
This little tyke was wandering around behind his mother’s food cart on the grounds of the Shaolin temple.
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