Tian Men Shan – Bob's Travel Blog

Now there are two ways to go up this mountain. By road on the bus and by Cablecar (7 Kms) one of the longest – takes 30 minutes to the top.

Almost to the end of the road and this was what I saw.

Time to get legs working again. That ride up was hair raising – I was in a seat belt – the other passengers were not and I had some photos that got all blurred because of the bumps and sharp corners. One right hand corner was so sharp he turned left and did a figure 8 to line up for the corner.

Now remember me telling you about my 300 steps yesterday and being out of breath. Ruth decided she did not want me going up these 999 steps. This photo does not show how steep they get towards the top. So off Ruth goes to the top with me staying close to our guide for another way up. Firstly Ruth’s start.

There she is at the start of the two staircases.

She is near the rock with the red letters. Now this is how I got up. Inside the mountain. Up 5 of these.

Till I got to here.

And look who is sitting down for a rest. She claimed she was taking photos and who am I to argue with her.

She made it and now you can see how steep the steps were. My little champion did it in about 35 minutes.

We all regrouped and were off again – this time to the real top.

and up another 7 escalators like this

Till we got to the top.

Time to regroup again. so a quick shot of the road again.

this is China and on all hills or Mountains you will find a Buddhist temple

Now we are off and the walkway around the top of this mountain – still early so mist and cloud still around.

Don’t look down – it’s hundreds of metres.

Part of the walkway is glass – so you can look down – check out the red slippers you have to put over your shoes.

Once off the glass walkway back on the concrete walkway.

Not sure how we got in front of our guide during the crossing over from one side of the mountain to the other side.

View back to the city were the cablecar starts – checkout the new motorway. I believe we are at 1600 metres .

Still more walkway to go. around the corner is a swingbridge.

Yes a bridge about 1000 metres above the valley with bits of cord between the sides to stop you falling.

Ruth is almost across – had to do the arms in the air photo first.

We still have a fair way to go.

Some more great signs

Looking back to the other side before we crossed the bridge.

And how do you get the supplies to the little shops up this mountain? This is a common way for merchants to carry their goods – one strong piece of bamboo