(1) Most of the following pictures were on the trail between Gu Baijing Tai and Huiju Si. This one was just below Gu Baijing Tai next to a Guanyin Hall. It's Dizang again, this one as yet unfinished.
(2) Not far from the top of the trail down, I saw this view. See the shining white area? When I got back to my hotel I put two and two together and realized: this is the plaza in front of where I'm staying!
(3) I loved how the buildings were clinging to the mountainside. This one is called "Heaven's Bridge Temple"; the trail I walked leads over those arches.
(4) I couldn't resist a couple of shots of the unrelenting stairs. Notice that there are no landings, just one step after another; I once counted over 300 stairs without relief!
(5) Here's another shot of many, many stairs; this one leads into a building built over a small cave in a nunnery.
(6) In the same nunnery, the main hall is built up against a native rock with carving and an altar in front of it.
(7) At another nunnery, I was intrigued by this hobbit-y looking room over a stream.
(8) A nun in the "courtyard" (actually, just the trail running between two buildings) was winnowing something, I couldn't see what.
(9) Just below that nunnery, another nun (sorry for the unflattering angle) was tending the vegetable patch; one wrong step and it's a loooong way down. (BTW I really like seeing monastics doing agricultural tasks.)
(10) Here it is: proof that I walked down about 5km (3 miles): from Tiantai Si at the top to the "Phoenix Pine Sub-Service Center," 4680 + 420 = 5100 meters. Damn.
(11) Even between that sign and the end of the road, there were more temples, including this one. I hit the bottom around 5:20, and apparently the bus service stopped at 5:00. So I had to pay a little over a dollar for a ride with an illegal taxi. Well worth it, as it was another 8km to my hotel!
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