On Saturday morning Ali, Freda and Edie joined a Grade 1 class for the 12km walk along the Cha Ma Gu Dao, the Ancient Tea Horse Trail. Michelle, who also helps recruit for cooking club, organised two buses to pick the happy hikers up at the College gate and we we driven to the starting point, about 10 km south of Ning'er. The trail has changed a lot since we last walked it in 2008. As well as being cobbled along the whole route (previously it was only the higher sections that still had (original) cobbles in place, there are now numerous sign-posts and shelters to cater for walkers, litter bins, shrines, a Land God altar, a stone bridge, and even a new finishing/starting point in the northern outskirts of Simao featuring a fancy stone gate and a giant turtle. It's not just Simao city which is showing signs of rapid development. (The old endpoint is currently an enormous building site split by a dual carriageway, Simao's northern bypass!)
Our old picnic tree is under the decking...
Now it's impossible to get lost...
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