Penglai

A while back Dale, Barbara and I went to Penglai. It's a little over an hour from Yantai so we did it in a day trip. Penglai is known for the Penglai pavilion with the 8 immortals and for a mirage that appears every few years - unfortunately it did not appear the day we were visiting. The pavilion is a place of worship, hence the multitude of temples. There is also a mirage that has appeared in the past. It usually only appears for a few minutes but several years ago it was visible for a few hours so they now have a film of it that we saw. The mirage is on the sea horizon and in it there appears a town and stuff.

A pretty view of Penglai Pavilion...


A section of the Pavilion had tons of artwork, such as these jade statues...
Penglai Pavilion is known for the 8 immortals. I guess these are some of the 8...


Dale fits in well with the Chinese since he's so superstitious. Evidently if your coin lands on the turtle's head you'll have good luck...



I'm not exactly sure what this guy is but he looks awesome...

More impressive looking statues. They're everywhere...

That section far away and up high is where we walked to see all the temples...

This kid is SO cute in his little blue outfit...

Me and Dale. You might wonder why I have the piece of cloth tied around my skirt. That's because it was so incredibly windy. Barbara and I had bought new dresses and wanted to wear them. We didn't realize we'd be entering hurricane force winds. Consequently, my skirt wanted to fly up all day. Hence why it's tied down...


The town of Penglai...

Even the trash cans look cool here...

Barbara and I on the beach, after walking ALL the way down. Of course that was easy compared to walking up...

Walking back up the stairs...
Dale's afraid of heights...

Hahaha, Barbara has the windblown look down pat...

The ceiling in my room isn't quite this fancy...

The signs are a constant amusement...

A pretty decorative screen...