The last travel, and the one which is only for traveling, is the trip to the Changbai Mt. For people living in the northeast, it is a legendary mountain. For the Tianchi, also for the massive underground rivers and ginseng inside.

Before I went to the mountain, I went to Dandong first for stupid rules in the train system. It is also on the boarder of China and North Korea. Someone said the contrast on the border is very clear in the night. Because North Korea doesn’t have enough power to light in the night, so it is like black and white.

On the way to the Changbai Mt I met a couple of locals on the train. They are very hospitable. They even invite me for the lunch on the arriving day. Anyway the ones ran the businesses there are not so kind.

On the mountain there were cold and snow. It is like always. The Tianchi (Heaven Lake) is just a pile of frozen ice with a lot of snow covering the top.

You can hardly see any plants there. It is tundra.

After that one of us is sick immediately. So I have to visit most of the rest places with sunnymonkey alone. And what we saw most… is snow. There are snows everywhere. If you die in the snow, no one will discover you.

And the underground river.

Frozen waterfalls.

Hot springs. Some birds will wash themselves in the hot spring!

And the frozen tunnel. It is under the snow.

Outside the tunnel… you can see how thick the snow is.

The larger waterfall, also frozen.

We are on the way to the underground forest, which grows after the eruption of the volcano movement.

Who knows what are the red spots?

The underground forest. It is in the valley. But the snow was heavy, so no good photos.

After that sunnymonkey and purplesnow left for the airport. But I still spent some time around. Like the lumber mill.

Also some time inside a pine forest. It is a special kind of pinus sylvestris.

This is the end of my travel in winter. And it is the end of the series. I am hoping I can get some more in the summer.