The movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was filmed in the Anhui province of China. For our class field trip, we went to Huang Shan which is a beautiful mountain in Anhui where the fog floats in and around the dramatic peaks and makes the whole place feel very mysterious. I think this is probably the most beautiful place I've been in China so far. I took loads of pictures and provide a few of them here. If you look closely at the first photo in the group, you can see the stairs winding up the side of one of the hill. We stayed at one of the handful of hotels on the top of the mountain, so we managed to see both sunset and sunrise. One of the photos shows me with Xiaohong and Leigh (the staff at the Stanford office here in Beijing) at sunrise. Hiking down the mountain, we ran across numerous men carrying supplies up the mountain (see photos of a man carrying a metal beam and another group carrying bags filled with bricks). The man carrying the beam told us that he makes 10 RMB (about $1.30) per trip and can make about 4 trips per day. He carried about 150 lbs each trip. That's hard labor! It was also possible to hire a sedan chair and be carried up or down the mountain by two hearty men. I kept threatening to do this, but it would have been so embarrassing... I also worried that if one of them tripped, I'd be dumped off the side of the mountain!
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