18Xina 08FG to Mt. Tiantai 天台山
near Yuwangcheng, Hubei (China)
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Not a GPS recording. Drawn manually on a satellite map. I walked this on 2018-03-24. This is part of a walk from Wuhan(A) to Kaifeng(Y) and the Yellow River(Z). Search Wikiloc for "18Xina" and "19Xina" (etc.?) for my China walks.
Overview "18Xina 4-week walk Yangtze to Yellow 武汉开封", Wikiloc ID = 39405196
Previous day "18Xina 07EF to Lüwang zhen 吕王镇", Wikiloc ID = 38416347
Next day "18Xina 09GH to Qianjin xiang 千斤乡", Wikiloc ID = 38443132
I took photos with my mobile phone, but due to technical weakness of that old device, I couldn't use GPS on my 2018 walk.
Info from photo time stamps (and my personal memory of locations):
06h35(0.0km) leave hotel; 6h45 a 饼(flat bread) on my photo - I think I didn't find a more substantial breakfast at this hour (perhaps I should have looked on country road S108 for breakfest?); river bridge leads me out of town; 08h00 reservoir; 8h15 somewhere I turned left too early; 08h30-08h35 across the broad valley to the main road at XiongHe Cun sign (plan was to reach the main road further south); 8h55 small bridge, directly turn left, avoiding big road; 09h00 pond, keep on side road (below fast road) 09h15 basket ball, 09h30-09h35 studying a sign "danger, forbidden" at bifurcation - finally I continue left up onto the mountain road nevertheless. I didn't notice any dangerous spot on the next many kilometers; 10h35 on a left bend I keep on main road, not on the dirt road that branches off; 10h45 right (small pass) at junction; 11h10...11h20 pause at creek near road bend; 11h40 junction from right below, keep ahead; 11h55 junction from left above, follow right bend; 12h00 big biulding (Hotel of China Argiculture University Tea studies?); 12h05 past rafting photos; through artificial rock gate with "Duitian River" letters to lake dam; 12h30 first of many 山在mountain villas - my guess is you book them for family vacation - close to an abandoned big hotel; the 山在 here have big standardized numbered signpots. HA17-07-39; HA17-07-037; etc.13h00 after big right bend I keep on the road and don't try the sone paths - I think that was a good decision; 13h30 pause; 13h35 photo of stairway leading to memorial Stone; 13h50 keep on this river side at bridge; 13h50-14h00 at lake shore; 14h05 a row of 山在 , but looking like small hotels. All closed, but the owner of one of them is there and opens the chain look for me. 14h15 in room.
On the afternoon I visited Mt Tiantai. This is not on this GPS track:
14:30 km-stone "16" on road from 山在hotel to Tiantai 天台寺 monastry; 14:45 after first road-side statues, the access to the monastry is under heavy construction, but is open even for cars; 14h55 uphill walk; 15h15-15h45 walking at the old hilltop monastry and the platform on a nearby hill, I meat a hiking club (足行天下俱乐部) whose energetically posing leader has loudspeakers with disco sound on his belt and carries a big flag; 16h05-16h20 walking around the new monastry at the bottom of the hill.
18h dinner at my 山在
Overview "18Xina 4-week walk Yangtze to Yellow 武汉开封", Wikiloc ID = 39405196
Previous day "18Xina 07EF to Lüwang zhen 吕王镇", Wikiloc ID = 38416347
Next day "18Xina 09GH to Qianjin xiang 千斤乡", Wikiloc ID = 38443132
I took photos with my mobile phone, but due to technical weakness of that old device, I couldn't use GPS on my 2018 walk.
Info from photo time stamps (and my personal memory of locations):
06h35(0.0km) leave hotel; 6h45 a 饼(flat bread) on my photo - I think I didn't find a more substantial breakfast at this hour (perhaps I should have looked on country road S108 for breakfest?); river bridge leads me out of town; 08h00 reservoir; 8h15 somewhere I turned left too early; 08h30-08h35 across the broad valley to the main road at XiongHe Cun sign (plan was to reach the main road further south); 8h55 small bridge, directly turn left, avoiding big road; 09h00 pond, keep on side road (below fast road) 09h15 basket ball, 09h30-09h35 studying a sign "danger, forbidden" at bifurcation - finally I continue left up onto the mountain road nevertheless. I didn't notice any dangerous spot on the next many kilometers; 10h35 on a left bend I keep on main road, not on the dirt road that branches off; 10h45 right (small pass) at junction; 11h10...11h20 pause at creek near road bend; 11h40 junction from right below, keep ahead; 11h55 junction from left above, follow right bend; 12h00 big biulding (Hotel of China Argiculture University Tea studies?); 12h05 past rafting photos; through artificial rock gate with "Duitian River" letters to lake dam; 12h30 first of many 山在mountain villas - my guess is you book them for family vacation - close to an abandoned big hotel; the 山在 here have big standardized numbered signpots. HA17-07-39; HA17-07-037; etc.13h00 after big right bend I keep on the road and don't try the sone paths - I think that was a good decision; 13h30 pause; 13h35 photo of stairway leading to memorial Stone; 13h50 keep on this river side at bridge; 13h50-14h00 at lake shore; 14h05 a row of 山在 , but looking like small hotels. All closed, but the owner of one of them is there and opens the chain look for me. 14h15 in room.
On the afternoon I visited Mt Tiantai. This is not on this GPS track:
14:30 km-stone "16" on road from 山在hotel to Tiantai 天台寺 monastry; 14:45 after first road-side statues, the access to the monastry is under heavy construction, but is open even for cars; 14h55 uphill walk; 15h15-15h45 walking at the old hilltop monastry and the platform on a nearby hill, I meat a hiking club (足行天下俱乐部) whose energetically posing leader has loudspeakers with disco sound on his belt and carries a big flag; 16h05-16h20 walking around the new monastry at the bottom of the hill.
18h dinner at my 山在
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