summer2009 roadtrip day 8

汉中(HanZhong): 古栈道(Historical Army Path)
广元(GuangYuan): hotel

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What a day for the red demon to visit me this month.
Today's main attraction was basically a climbing exercise and my haywire hormones + the scorching sun didn't help one bit.


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The Historical Army Path was supposed to be this mountain path that the armies of the Three Kingdoms era had forged as they crossed the mountains. There were little clay figures along the route to the Path that depict some of the events from the Three Kingdoms, like LiuBei visiting ZhuGeLiang three times to scout him as his advisor and some key battles/meetings.
There were also lots of statues (new ones built for the tourist site) of famous emperors and generals.
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The actual Army Path was to be reached by climbing a couple million steps along the mountain and I really wasn't up for that much exercise while I'm cramping and overheating. So basically I gave up.

Instead, we walked over this really long drawbridge (labeled "Lover's Bridge"...though it was kinda too narrow for two average people to walk across side by side) and played by this pretty (artificially directed) waterfall that flows into the river the bridge hangs over. Dad and Jeff got down to the water's edge and started catching shrimp from under the rocks. Dad-2, Jeff-1.
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And then, another full afternoon of driving.


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Updated my deviantART account with photos from the roadtrip. Mostly the lotus fields and the bee closeups so far.