Chapter 170 Halfway up, you told me this is the ticket office?
But she wasn't sure.

That’s not right. If it’s a tourist attraction, there’s nothing special about it.

It shouldn't be worthy of being a separate tourist attraction, right?

Then why build a small tower here?

Chen Lu shook his head: "This is not a tourist attraction, it's a ticket office."

"What, you said this is the ticket office?"

[Watt? I've been climbing for two hours, and you told me I just arrived at the ticket office?]

[Who is so kind to build the ticket office halfway up the mountain? ]

[So you mean, the real journey to Mount Tai has not started yet? ]

[I thought we had arrived at Nantianmen, but I ended up at the ticket office! ]

"Honey, you are kidding, right?"

"No, this is really the ticket office."

Anna was wondering along the way why she didn't see the ticket office?

The steps and railings are so well built, it’s impossible for people to visit for free, right?
Even if it's really free, there should be a place to verify the identity documents, right?

You've been waiting for me here for quite some time!

It all makes sense!

There’s nothing we can do, the folks from Shandong Province are too honest!

You will be allowed to climb for two hours to experience it first, and then decide whether to spend money to continue.

This is Taishan’s incomparable gentleness!
If it were somewhere else, how could there be such a long trial version?

This also gives everyone a chance to regret.

If you can’t even last these two hours, I’m sorry, climbing Mount Tai is not for you!
Come back next time when you are ready!
If you think the experience is good, you can pay for a ticket and experience the full version.

Many people, thinking that since they are already here, choose to spend money to unlock the genuine version.

However, once you pass this city wall, there will be no way to retreat on the road ahead!
Of course you can choose to take the cable car, but if you do that, the point of climbing Mount Tai will be lost.

The old men rested for a while, then stood up and walked down the mountain.

"Hey, I feel much better after some exercise. What are you going to eat later?"

"Let's find a restaurant. I want to eat red-scaled fish!"

"You old man, you always choose to eat those expensive and unfilling things!"

"Don't mention it. I come here to exercise every day and my legs are getting better and better!"

Wow, these guys treat climbing Mount Tai as their daily exercise!
Not to mention, some people who live at the foot of Mount Tai actually climb Mount Tai as part of their daily exercise.

It’s so close that you can walk there, and you can enjoy the beautiful scenery while exercising. Why not?

Most importantly, it's free!
The first two hours are free of charge, and going up and down the mountain for a total of four hours is more than enough for daily exercise!

Many people chose to return the same way they came. After two hours of experience, they realized that Mount Tai was not as easy to climb as they had imagined.

Of course, those who are stubborn and boast that they will conquer Mount Tai will choose to continue climbing after buying the tickets.

"Anna, do you want to keep climbing?"

"Of course! Now that we are here, we must take down Little Tarzan!"

"Then how about taking the cable car? We can go to Nantianmen and then climb to the top."

Anna gritted her teeth and said, "No! I want to climb all the way up!"

After that, she held up her trekking pole and walked forward.

[Very good, very impressive! ]

[Oh, it seems that Her Highness is full of confidence! ]

[I guess she won't be able to hold on any longer.] [Yes, the real difficulty is still to come, especially the winding Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai!]

After the ticket office, the flow of people decreased significantly.

After climbing for a while, Anna began to breathe heavily.

Not to mention, Mount Tai is only over 1,000 meters above sea level, but in her opinion, it is more difficult to climb than those mountains in Europe that are over 2,000 meters high!
How strange!

Chen Lu saw that she was tired: "Why don't you sit down and rest for a while?"

Anna said stubbornly: "No, I'm not tired yet!"

"I'm tired, come and rest with me."

"Well, alright then. Let me make it clear that I'm not tired at all. I just want to accompany you!"

This little girl is quite stubborn.

But it doesn’t matter, Taishan is best at dealing with people who are stubborn!
Only when she reached the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai did she realize what difficulty meant!
Chen Lu put Anna's legs on his legs and gave her a relaxing massage.

If she didn't relax in time, she wouldn't be able to get out of bed the next day.

"Look at her, dear. She's wearing high heels to climb the mountain!"

Chen Lu looked over and saw a lady wearing high heels.

He shook his head helplessly. How much did he look down on Taishan?
Look at the extent of the wear on the heel. It was 8 centimeters when going up the mountain, but only 2 centimeters left when going down the mountain!
Some people who originally wanted to bring their children on an outing now either have to carry them on their backs or hold them in their arms, and it is impossible for them to walk even a step further.

When they arrived at the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai, the tourists couldn't help but gasp at the steep steps.

This is too steep!

[Ward, this section looks so steep! ]

[It should be a problem of the shooting angle, right? After all, the slope was quite gentle in the beginning, it is impossible for it to be so steep all of a sudden. ]

[It’s not a matter of perspective, this is the steepest section of Mount Tai, known as the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai! ]

[It looks really scary. I wouldn’t dare to climb it even if there were railings next to it! ]

There are a total of 1633 steps in the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai.

The rocky cliffs on both sides are as sharp as chisels, and the winding path looks like a ladder to heaven.

Ancient emperors and scholars had to start from here and move forward step by step to experience the kind of practice that was more powerful than ascending to heaven.

The construction of the Eighteen Bends of Mount Tai was truly an extremely difficult task.

Granite was initially chosen as the material, but it was too heavy and several attempts at construction ended in failure.

Later, a stonemason named Jiang Guisong proposed the method of piling up earth to build beams.

This is the same method used to build the Egyptian pyramids, which relied on climbing up the earth pile and using the force to lift heavy objects.

All the stones on the mountain trail starting from Hongmen are diabase porphyry, which is dated to be 17.6 billion years old, making it the youngest stone among the stone steps of Mount Tai.

But if you go further up, you can see rocks that are more than a billion years old.

In other words, just a few steps mean a difference of more than one billion years!

The majesty of the mountain is in the Eighteen Bends; the grandeur of Mount Tai is in the climbing!
From the starting point to the end point, the steps between every two platforms are counted as one turn, and the president has ninety-seven turns.

According to the steepness, it is divided into three types: “tight Eighteen Turns, slow Eighteen Turns, and neither fast nor slow Eighteen Turns”.

The Eighteen Bends rock formation is steep, rising hundreds of meters in less than one kilometer. The craftsmen had to carry the heavy Taishan stones to transport and build the stone, and they also had to face the danger of rocks rolling down from above at any time. The difficulty of construction can be imagined!

At the beginning of each plate, there is a basic step.

This stair is not a complete one, but half.

It looks like it has not been repaired, but in fact it is inserted more than 40 centimeters into the ground, forming a snap-on structure.

The interlocking structures make the stone steps of Mount Tai extremely stable.

Even the Taishan earthquakes could not shake it at all!

The two of them took a break and then launched an attack towards the Eighteen Steps!
(End of this chapter)