Its always good to get out of the city for a week and get to somewhere with fresh cool air, as there are many places within driving distance of Shanghai to do this.
The place I have always wanted to go was Wuyi County to do camping on platformed tents at the top of a mountain.
We hiked around a small village for a couple of hours to see how they still practice Daoism and how this village is still very traditional in a sense that it still has many of the old houses and streets which made it a very quaint experience…
Going to the mountain to camp proved pretty fun except my curse continues with it being cloudy and rainy on every mountain excursion I have been on in China. As you drive up to the mountain you run across an old village from the time of the Cultural Revolution still intact with all of the propaganda pictures and houses that look like a throwback to yesteryear……
Finally going up the mountain the weather never subsided and was very rainy and cloudy the whole time. As the story goes during the cultural revolution, students were sent up to this area to work, as China modernized in the future, these same people came back to build a magnificent campsite, zipline, and a glass bridge where you can see for miles (not with clouds). The tents were platformed and comfortable and the area was quite isolated which I liked a lot. Next time hopefully the sun will come out…
