A Yalie's Summer Study in Beijing: 06-15-13 | Beijing, Tunxi, Huangshan, and Back. A Summation

Because there's finally time to write; or rather, it's really late and I don't even care. Get ready for an enormous post.
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Touristy Things

This past week has been crazy hectic but also pretty amazing. I'm not one to effuse, but lemme tell you about it. First, airplanes. I must have spent the equivalent of over a day in airports, in the sky, on buses, in taxis, etc. I'll probably write bloated posts with detailed itineraries, but the important thing I've found is that music through noise-isolating earbuds is so so very necessary. I swear it was the only thing keeping me sane through all the crying babies and safety announcements and airplane food. So thank you Guster, Rob Thomas, Emancipator, All India Radio, and all the other random music I downloaded last minute from Pandora. --End Tribute

This dog thing was chewing a piece of bone

After staying a night at my dad's apartment in Beijing (he works there), we took two short plane rides to Tunxi, the town at the base of Huangshan. That day we just toured "Old Street" (lao jie 老街), which is where tourists can buy all manner of touristy things and eat at fancy restaurants. There were also quite a few animals, including dogs, cats, birds, and small children. (More pics to follow. Here are a few to start).

Pictured: Small Children.

The next two days were wholly devoted to hiking all over Huangshan. The details I will spare you (and myself because I'm tired), but there are awkward hot springs, foods, monks, and monkeys involved. After I sort through the 500 some pictures, I'll post a few good ones. Maybe I'll even try out the new Flickr that Yahoo has apparently revamped. I've used Flickr before, but like most others, didn't really care about it. At a glance, it looks like it's become pretty amazing since then: 1 terabyte of space, full res. photos, 等等. I did a double take and afterward noticed they had continued the whole skipping-the-last-vowel thing.

Anyway here are just a few pics from the first day (there are many more).