This is the scenic area of Yellow Mountain, about 4 hours bus ride from Hangzhou. A lovely view but I paid a price to get there - 18,000 steps according to a pocket pedometer! My knees were not happy. This first image is shortly after the initial portion of the ascent, which was facilitated by a comfortable trip via a cable car that gave magnificent views of the mountain terrain. In the second image, you see me crouching (like a tiger) before stone engravings of the character for 'love'. This photo was taken in an area near where some filming occurred for the movie 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'.
My travelling companions were ZU student Sun Yi and SFU professors Steven Pearce and Stella Atkins. During the bus ride from Hangzhou I feared that we'd be in a motor crash and only hoped I'd escape without disfiguring injury. A very near miss occurred during that trip, and on the return trip a much less near (i.e. actual collision) did happen, and fortunately I did escape without injury.
The weather seemed nice and sunny during your trip, although if you were on a mountain was it actually colder than it seemed?
ReplyDeleteWhen you wrote that the students from the next cohort should take a course in C language, did you just mean the C programming languae, or C++?
Just plain old vanilla C
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