Monday, September 7, 2009

Summer - Qingyuan Hot Spring Resort Trip






Almost like a photographer's convention as the big guns came out



Hot stepping it through the bamboo poles at the entertainment Water feature ? at the hot springs




Reading instead of attempting to understand the "lecture" about deer products for medicinal and other weird purposes.





Grass skiing, not quite the adrenelin buzz of snow skiing and not quite the excitement of skiing in Chile in 2008 - but it was fun anway, even if it was hot!




A 3 hour minibus ride from ShenZhen and we were in the "resort" area. We went rafting in a mix of man made and natural environment, concrete "canyons" and a dammed wall of water ensures a 365 day activity , it just means you have to wait for the river to fill up at the launch end.
Helmets doubled as bailers and one paddle per boat indicated there would not be too much paddling.
We we set afloat when there was enough water! and hurtled towards the unknown through tunnels and "drains" and some flat areas where I could get the little camera out of teh waterproof box to take some shots.
It was quite good fun but sometimes previous experiences ( Kicking Horse River in Canada or North Island NZ, or the Borneo washing machine) overshadow what is still a good day out.
Must go, it's time to teach...hopefully this latest fix will work at home too, speeding up the uploading time to reasonable. It's a big business finding fixes around teh Great Firewall.
Cheers