tandem4family – Mit der Familienkutsche von Shanghai nach Beijing
It is a mixed experience to visit physically a certain place, with which one has been familiar only through descriptions in old literature. The previous night I reached Mt. Mao in the Jiangsu province, which I knew from texts written 1 500 ago as one of the most sacred Daoist sites in medieval China. While Volker is biking from Liyang, I use the day to explore together with Sarah and Nora the real mountain of the present.
In the morning we step out of the imposing portal of the hotel, ready for the unknown. An old lady is washing clothes in the artificial pond next to the tripods. Across the road there is the equally imposing visitors’ centre, likewise of marble and glass, with a huge yin-yang symbol in the front square. While Sarah and Nora happily hop from yin to yang and from yang to yin, I survey the tourist map of the region.
