Another trip to the tea plantation in darkest Shenken with Alex Daley making his White Monkey debut...June 5th 2011 | ||||||||||
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Trip to Teapot and Banping Mountains, Sept 11th 2010 | ||||||||||
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The first (unofficial) hike was to a remote bit of countryside behind a group of temples where people go to pray for money....really! One of them is a ghost temple where a young girl died and is supposed to bring luck to whoever prays to her....for a price. You have to make some sort of sacrifice to make your wishes come true. A little like selling your soul to the devil me thinks.... | ||||||||||
Praying to the Earth God to bring us luck on our hike | ||||||||||
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On the first of May 2010, the White Monkeys made their first facebook announced trip out into the mountains of Shen Ken. | ||||||||||
Here we are at the starting point, Ian, Yvonne, me and Tommy. | ||||||||||
We passed through some farmland on the way up and somehow got...er...trapped in the nets. That boy Tommy is a trouble maker! | ||||||||||
We are the White Monkeys...on the top of Monkey Mountain!! | ||||||||||
We stopped off at the tea plantation and after sampling the wares went out to do a spot of tea picking as it was in fact harvest time! It's hard graft out there in the fields.... | ||||||||||
And so a successful trip. Four and a half hours of japery and exercise...more to come! | ||||||||||
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