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For your enjoyment, here are three slide shows from our night on Mt. Huang Shan. The Beihai Guesthouse was built during the early days of Mao and felt eerily like the remote hotel from Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining. It even included a Shining-esque group photo featuring a Chinese Jack Nicholson. To our surprise, we stayed in a cabin tucked away behind the basketball courts, not in the hotel proper. (Remember when you view the photos that there are no roads on the mountain. Everything you see was carried in.)

In this Album: Our accommodation at the Beihai hotel. Who can spot the Chinese Jack Nicholson? Our cozy cabin in the woods which would have been peaceful if our neighbors hadn't stayed up late playing the rowdiest game of mahjong this side of the Yangtze. From our front stoop we could see a hotel under construction in the distance.

In this Album: Stone Work: carved lion and steps with granite railings chiseled to look like wood. (Who has the patience to chisel granite?) The hotel's tent option. We suspect that they do not advertise the tents as "conveniently located on the cement basketball court". Misty mountain b-ball. Padlocks bought in tourists shops and attached to chains all over the mountain. We don't know why. Our post-hike dinner.

In this Slide Show: Seth at 5:30am trying to enjoy the sunrise. Just waiting for the inconsiderate American tourists to stop Bogarting our view. Misty mountain beauty.