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My day out to Hua Shan

This is a short post to record my day off to the Hua Shan mountains, one of the sacred Taoist mountains, about 120km east of Xi'an. Becky wasn't too keen on this 'cause we'd been told there would be a lot of exposure to height etc., and i wasn't to keen on clothes shopping, even the "everything's so cheap in China!" variety.

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