Apr 3, Friday, Zhangjiajie

Today we took a bus up to Bao Feng Lake, a beautiful mountain lake.  At the bus station there was a large waterfall that flowed off of the lake. 

While at the lake we took a boat ride around the entire lake.  Again, the rock formations and mountains were just fantastic and the lake area was calm and serene. 

There were a couple small platform structures (didn't really look like boats) on the lake.  When our boat went by a performer would come out and sing to us.  Sort of an interested side attraction to the natural beauty of the place. 

More Photos of Boa Feng Lake

After lunch Mary went back to the hotel for nap (possible cold coming on) and Paul went to the Yellow Dragon Cave.  The grounds at the cave included an unusual building with a grass covered roof and lots of waterwheels along the stream.

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 with 3000 steps and some pretty awesomely large rooms. 

Lots of stairs.

And more stairs

And the formations were lit with many colored lights.

There was also an underground lake in the cave, resulting in an underground boat ride. 

More photos of the Yellow Dragon Cave.

The group (Paul and Gabby) then picked up Mary and we went back into the park for a train ride through another beautiful valley, the 10-Mile Gallery (actually 3 English miles long, since the li unit of measure, known as a Chinese Mile, is about 3 tenths of an English mile). 

We got back to the hotel just in time as shortly after we got back we had another downpour.  

This evening was the first day/evening that the hotel had dry floors.  We have decided that instead of using a damp mop to clean the stone floors that they just hose them down…then they stay WET all day.