All Guy

At the beginning of the Exploring China school Trip to Moganshan, everybody in year 9 met at the school campus at 6:00 am for check in, loaded the buses and left for the train station. It was a 5 hour train ride to Shanghai, and a 2 hour bus ride to arrive at our destination.

When we arrived to our final destination, we unpacked and did a little compass orientation activity around the little village we were in. We listened to speeches by our trip leaders of schedules and upcoming activities after dinner and then went to bed. The next morning mostly everybody was up early.

After some pictures and breakfast, we separated into permanent groups and separated to do different activities. The first two activities that my group did were cooking and basket weaving, in the Moganshan way.

The next day, the day before we left, we hiked the whole day, it was fun. We hiked up two mountains, and hiked on the road for 1 hour.

The next set of pictures were a recent Young Mens camp out in a village near the Great Wall. It was very cold and beautiful with all the trees changing to autumn colors.

We had a half hour hike up to the wall from our camping spot, we had to carry everything during the long hike, so we tried to eat most of the food for dinner the night before.

Point 14 was the first tower we reached. On the top there were a lot of camera people taking shots of the beauty around us. Our five person group had two young men, and three leaders, one of the young men leaders did a similar camp/hike trip at the wall 3 years earlier. Point 14 was were they slept. If you faced the little village we stayed at on top of 14, on the left, the mountains were filled with low clouds and pollution. On the right it was the exact opposite. It was clean and had fresh air.

                                                       
                                                        

This was the steepest section of the wall we hiked. Slippery stone on a steep angle. We almost pulled out a tarp to sit on to slide down the wall. You had to hug the wall with all your might and edge slowly down.

We hiked all the day from our camping spot all the way to the restored part of the wall. We took the famous toboggan slide down after a desperate bathroom break at the wall. Before we left in the didi, we had several hamburgers or chicken sandwiches at Burger King.

By, Guy