point!! Actual boiling water was impossible, no matter how long you left it!!!! So after a good long wait we finally got a warm snack!!!

By the time we’d eaten it was almost getting dark, and a quick look around the place revealed a few dodgy looking food stalls with food that had quite obviously been sitting there all day, a visitors centre, now closed, and a five star hotel, along with a temple, pagoda and another hostel. The views up and down the valley were quite pleasant though, but the temperature was dropping quite rapidly, so we headed back to our room, where it wasn’t much warmer, and we played a few cold games of cards before the agonising wait for water for some noodles, and then got in bed to keep warm!!!!

After our early night we were up with the birds the next morning,

and had a look around the visitor centre. The first thing we discovered was that the nearby public hot springs had been closed down because of a landside!! This was a real blow as they had formed the plan for one of our days!! Nevertheless we headed out on a walk to Baiyang waterfall. This started out a little walk up the gorge from us where they dug a pedestrian tunnel through the walls of the gorge into the next valley - a total of about a kilometre! It was a bit spooky walking through the tunnel as it was unlit and quite damp, but we reached the other side to find an even more picturesque valley than the gorge we were in. The walk was about an hour, and passed through many more of these tunnels, smaller than the first one, but still some feat of engineering just for a national park trail!! The waterfall itself was great, it was in two sections, both quite high and distant, but with a great view afforded by a swaying suspension bridge over the river, which revealed another smaller fall underneath