8 am in the morning. Mr Liang's (our driver) new car (a Honda) was waiting for us in front of our condominium. On the way Mr Liang played his new techno CD with the "Techno Chicken Song" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8vafsaT0Wo at high volume... and we were more than awake when we reached our first destination also thanks to this extraordinary song.
Longqing Gorge (Longqing Xia) offered the following:
- an old rusty elevator, shaped and painted as a dragon from the outside, which can be found in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the world's longest chain of escalators in the world (258 m)
- an old rusty elevator, shaped and painted as a dragon from the outside, which can be found in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the world's longest chain of escalators in the world (258 m)
- boating in the gorge, climbing the mountain, watching wire rope artists and people bungee jumping and climbing the mountain of the Pagoda of Impression (most probably because on the way up you always have the impression that you have soon reached the top which is not true)
- a kitsch cave with fake cherry blossom, fake snow, fake panda bears, fake... well, everything was quite obviously fake and plastic.
Techno filled our car again as we approached our next stop - Guyaju (old apartments inside a hill, i.e. cave dwellings). It seems that the tribe of Xiyi lived inside these caves AD618-907, but it is unknown why they chose to live there. The mountain as a whole resembles an emmental cheese nowadays.
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