中国 日四 千山国家公园 (China, Day 4 -- Qian Shan National Park) -- continued

August 6, 2010, Qian Shan National Park, Liaoning, China.

A Crossbow

This is Donkey, or Horse,  With thousand year old eggs. 

中国 日四 千山国家公园 (China, Day 4 -- Qian Shan National Park)

August 6, 2010, Qian Shan National Park, Liaoning, China.

Golden Ladies ...

We left in the morning for Qian Shan (Thousand Mountains) National park, Babi and I.  Babi was the father of my friend in China, and not the best English speaker.  He had been in America for a while and we managed.  It was hard work for me to sort out his pigeony English.   He did, make a pretty heroic effort to show me around for three days, and I am really grateful for that.

We took a bus through some fairly interesting landscape --  ghettos and huge new construction of apartment tenements.  my notes say that we took some circuitous back road route, but my memory thinks maybe it was the normal route. 

Golden Ladies ...

One Sky

A Gap Path Between Stones

One Sky

Fireworks Incense

Around this point we decided we would
never make it to Five Buddha Heaven

A Scale, on the Trail,
Should You Need One.

This 12 Year Old Kid's English Was Quite Good.
He Wanted His Picture Taken With Me

中国 -- 第三天 三百年一饺子店 (China, Day 3 -- A 300 Year Old Dumpling Shop)

August 5, 2010, Anshan, China.

I had lunch at a famous dumpling place which was about 300 years old, We had several different dumplings with a variety of fillings, incling maybe dog, goat, donkey, horse, pork and beef. Well ... hopefully not dog. I asked several times what the different dumplings were stuffed with but I never quite figured out the answer.

Pine nuts, which were yummy. 

My generous hosts. 

A Pound a Day

2 Folgers Coffee singles 0
2 creamer packets ?
2 Granola Bar 360
12 triscuits 240
2 3 oz Tuna Pouch 220
2 Gu Honey Stinger 200
One Top Ramen 360
Box Raisins 130
2 Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate packages 240
6 whole wheat fig newtons 330
2 instant oatmeal packages 320
1 bag of tea 0
Quart of Gatorade (dry) 300

Total Calories 2600

Weight: 1 lb. 4 oz.

A 12 ounce Guinness in the bottle weighs about 1 lb. 4 oz and contains 153 calories, so the question has to be -- which would you pick?