银山塔林: Yinshan Pagoda Forest

Time has gone by so quickly! (And there are only less than two weeks left of PiB!)

PiB organized a trip to the Yinshan Pagoda Forest quite a while ago; I've posted some photos below from our journey.

7/23/11, Saturday:

After our long bus ride to the countryside, we first stopped by a restaurant and ate a ton of food--lots of vegetable dishes, as well as some beef and chicken (regarding chicken heads, see the end of the previous post).

[off to Yinshan Talin!]

After looking at the Buddhist pagodas surrounding Yinshan, . . .

. . . we then started to make our way up the mountain.

[I guarantee we climbed up a mountain, 

although admittedly I can't say 
if it's the one in this background.]

On our way up, we passed a cool looking waterfall . . .

. . . as well as a huge bell.

After climbing up for what seemed like forever . . .

. . .we eventually reached the top!

And although it was very hot, disgustingly humid, and unfortunately hazy, . . .

. . . the trek up and down the mountain that day was pretty awesome.

-艾琳