March 2007

Yong'an is my second hometown, because i grew up here. But for my honey, this city is still a little strange for him, although it is the second time to come here.

On the day before my honey left China, the mayor of Yong'an city and his wife specially invited and arranged us to Tao Yuan Cave. The mayor's wife went with us in person, and asked the best tour guide to introduce the famous scenery spot as detailed as possible. The main goal was to let my honey know much more about Yong'an, because on our wedding dinner, they saw our lots of pictures about the daily life in Austria, and found we all like travel and sports so much. That was the reason why the mayor decided to recommend Tao Yuan Cave to my honey, and hoped him would like the natural site of Yong'an.

However, we had not enough time to stay longer, it was very pity that we could not go to visit other beautiful scenery spots in Yong'an, so we had to leave them for the next time.

The entrance to Tao Yuan Cave.

Nice rocks.

This bridge is just after the entrance.

All the bridges and paths at Tao Yuan Cave were lovely and in excellent condition.

This is the famous Ray of Sky.

It had been written in the Guinness World Records.

The "Ray of Sky" is a very narrow gap between two rocks at Tao Yuan Cave.

It's a pity that the pictures can not show it so clearly, but it's really very narrow and it gave me a warning not to eat too much in the future or maybe I won't be able to fit through when we want to come here again in a few years.

This picture shows nicely how the various sights and view points are connected by those comfortable pathways.

It's just a pity that it was a bit a foggy day, so it was not possible to take pictures of the whole area, as all distant objects were difficult to see in the mist.

So beautiful green trees!

In Austria many of the trees are still without leaves at this time, but Fujian province is a lot warmer through most of the year.

This poem was written by Li Gang, whom was an ancient Chinese Prime Minister in Song Dynasty.

The main meaning of the poem was: Li Gang thought Tao Yuan Cave was a very beautiful place, and he was worried that there would not be many people visiting here.

However, nowadays, Tao Yuan Cave is more and more popular in China.

So nice and clean is Tao Yuan Cave!

I hope to visit many more places like this when I travel to China again with my honey.

This was my first time to climb the real rocks. Actually, I did not want to do it at the begining, because on the next day we would fly to China, I prefered to have a good rest at home. But my honey thought we should go outdoor in such a nice spring sunny day, and when we were in China, we would have not enough time to do some sports. I thought it was reasonable, so agreed with him.

Before this time, we always climbed indoor, it was quite different with the real one. Climbing indoor, we easly could take 5+ or 6-, but the real rock routes only were 2 to 3+, I already thought that it was a little difficult for me.

Besides, comparing with indoor climbing, when we climbed the real one, we needed carry lots of heavy things in our bags. It was also the one of the main reasons why I felt difficult to climb. Beause it was my first time, and I needed practise more to get used to the heavy weight and the real rock routes. But for my honey, he was much skillful than me, absolutely he could climb much faster than me.

We took about 5 hours to finish climbing the real rocks totally. When we reached the top of the mountain, it had already been dark and very cold. Then we had to put the lights on our heads, and spent nearly 1.5 hour to go down the mountain carefully.

This experience was really memorable for me, although I was extremely tired when we arrived home.

Can you guess how much the weight of my bag?

I could not stand straightly...

Carrying such a heavy bag, it was really very difficult to walk quickly, as well as was very easy to get tried and sweaty.

Climbing the real rocks needs being very careful for the security, it is not a funny game, so we must make sure everything is safe, including wearing the safety helmet...

The safety helmet is not so much for protecting you when you fall, but rather for protecting your head when stones should fall down from above.

And really on this day there were some deer crossing our climbing route above, and loosening some stones which fell down the mountain.

However, luckily the stones fell a few meters to our left, so we did not get hit by them.

Look, so complicated climbing tools.

My honey was protecting me on the top...

I was protecting my honey below...

The picture looks more dangerous than it was.

Most parts of the route were not too difficult to climb. But if you fell down you still could have get hurt seriously.

Today the weather was very fine, but very hot, about , could feel the early spring nicely!

After parking, we found many pear trees with nice flowers around, but the pear flowers did not smell good, haha...

Beside the pear trees, there were some peach trees, the flowers were much more nicer than pear flowers, and they were not smelly.

Walking on the street in Wachau, we found some colorful flowers, very beautiful...

Behind me, it was famous Donau river...

Looking at the Donau...

My honey and me were all enjoying the nice weather and nice hiking...

Climbing is always one of my honey's favorite sports.

" I am a powerful man!!!" haha...

At that time, my honey was talking with me...

What a cool man!!!

Here just was a small part of Donau. Because of againsting the sunlight, could not see it clearly...

On this mountain, there are some destroyed castles walls...

Standing at any places, we all could see the Donau nicely...

I like this kind of blue and clean sky...

We can see the Donau much more in this picture.

There were many rocks around the biggest castle, and we also could find many people climing there...

This was the biggest old castle in the Wachau, but it had already been destroyed so much...

My honey told me that one of the England kings once was put into this prison before...

I tried to find the feeling for staying in prison, haha...

Here was another small part castle, still could see the Donau clearly...

Haha, I was trying to pull the big stone down, not only using the hands to pull...

but also using my legs, haha...

This was the full picture for the castle.

My honey was sitting on the top of the big rock, and overlooking the Donau.

This afternoon, we went to the Mostbauer with my honey's dad. After eating, my honey and I went to the Pöstlingberg and Linz for short sightseeing.

This picture was taken at the entrance of the Mostbauer. It is a little bit blur, or can see the Pöstlingberg clearly.

This is the famous church in the Pöstlingberg. Last year, when i came here with my honey, we saw a couple taking a wedding in this church, very nice!

This is the music hall in the city center.

This is Linz city center square, a little like Vienna, but much smaller. We took some pictures from the different angles.

This is a China restaurant in the square, but I have never been there to try the chinese food, so I do not know how about the taste, haha...

Actually, this church is behind the buildings...

Half ancient buildings, and half modern buildings...

The busy street...

The city center in the sunset...

This is the arts museum. The shape of this building is just so so, not so much special, but i like the color of the lights in the dark.

This is a bank.