Tuesday 26th April
We get up and make our pack our lunches and fill up a our water bottles yet again before the electricity and water suddenly fail. We have a lovely homely breakfast of porridge and then set off from the farmers' houses in the village.
Steep paths and terraces soon give way to rocky hillsides scattered with scrub. Eventually we rejoin the wall which is unrenovated, so is crumbling, so we follow a path alongside it with wonderful views, crossing several ridges - which was a challenge to some of our party who suffer from vertigo, but as a team we supported them and helped them achieve their goals to cross. The views were stunning and we stopped at the highest point where three provinces of China meet, marked by a triangle statue.
We then had a very hairy scramble back down the hillside to the village, where we passed a 500 year old tree that was decorated with red ribbons. We ate our lunch at the same place we had made it hours earlier, having carried it all the way up and all the way down the four hour trek. We went back on the bus for our long journey to Jinshanlin, with wonderful picturesque views.
