厚积薄发: accumulating steadily

Finally, I have the time to write something about the Huangshan Trip out team just took early this month. It was a great trip of course, having the opportunity to go out with colleagues. The most interesting parts during this trip were reaching the summit of TianDuFeng and getting up early to do some photographing in XiTang. Originally, we didn't have Tian Du Feng (天都峰). It was at our persistent request that the guide finally gave up and agreed to let us go. It was early in the morning and there was a mysterious blue mist around us, making Huangshan more or less like a fairy land. Sometime on the trip, we had to literally "Climb" using all the four of our limbs. I enjoy conquering the summit of a mountain very much, especially the feeling of looking down along the road that I've covered. And I guess this is why I thought this is the most interesting part of the trip. The other thing that was impressive on the trip is that we had a chance to see the typical "water village" （水乡）- Xitang (西塘), and taste the loneness and leisure that never belong to big cities like Beijing. It was early in the morning again (I think I love "early in the morning" because I am never a morning person), the whole village is soaked in quietness to the most tiniest part. People on the way is not any more consist of tourists, with people who go everywhere but keep nothing with them when they go away. We were talking all the way about spending a week or more in the village, staying in the family motels by the river and see how different life can be different for us. My desire for shopping was finally awoken, hanging from one shop to another in the village, attracted by everything, even though some of them are available in Beijing. Like I always say, souvenirs are special not because they are only available somewhere, but that they are bound with memories. Or am I wrong? Are you able to buy a piece of table cloth in Beijing which is bought from Xitang? People say this is non-sense, yet I love it. And right, with the help of my newly bought Pentex K100D, the beauty of Huangshan and Xitang is framed somehow, 最近玩得比较疯，去了好多地方，山西+黄山+杭州，小试了一下新买的相机，有点飘飘然了：）

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