Beautiful Laoshan

As promised yesterday here are pictures of Laoshan and our hike and views. Here is a little about the place we went to. We hiked the Mountain of Jufeng. It is the highest peak along the coastline (10,000 miles of coastline) of China. The peak is 1,132.7 meters above Sea Level, which is 3,716.2 feet. I am guessing, but I think our hike was in all about 5 miles round trip. Doesn't seem long, but in the post yesterday you could see the steps and that it was a steep grade.

Once at Laoshan we took another bus ride up windy, twisty, pin tight turns to the entrance of the hike. Even the views were great from the bus.

City of Laoshan

The bus ride was fun. They took the turns pretty fast. We are surprised that we didn't roll over.

Here is the beginning of the Trail. The boys thought the huge rock turtle was cool.

Solid rock turtle

Our goal is up and to the left in this picture.

We took breaks and had a good time admiring the views on the way up.

Looking back on the Yellow Sea. We did not take the Gondola you see in the distance.

This building/shop was right between where the mountain goes up and goes back down.

As you can see there were lots of people, everyone was respectful and kind when taking pictures and moving along the trails.

At the top....some of us were colder than others

At the top with Yellow Sea in the back.

Cool bridge at the top.

A panorama at the top.

In this last picture you can see that the sun is getting lower. We did leave the trailhead at 10:50am and reached the top around 3 or so. It was a good hard hike and after about 3 days our legs (mainly Jami's and mine) are back to normal and any type of stair we take does not hurt now.