Today my friends and I spent all day trying to acquire bikes we could use for tomorrow to travel to a national park and mountain nearby. Right when it looked like we wouldn't be able to find bikes to rent our Chinese teacher, Li laoshi, found a place and bargained the prices down so we could rent 3 bikes for our trip tomorrow. It is only costing us $3 US to rent the bikes for the weekend. Having a bike here is quite nice though and after using it today we are all thinking about getting one for the rest of our time here.
We're leaving at 6am and are going to bike to the base of the mountain which is about 15 miles away. At the base there is a temple and then we are going to climb to the top and ride our bikes back to our school. Lately, it has been very smoggy in Beijing and there has been a lot of noticeable pollution. We're hoping we will get lucky and have a great day for our decent to the top. Depending on how this trip goes, we are also planning on climbing the highest mountain in Beijing next weekend. I'm very excited to see what the park and mountain is like tomorrow. We drove past a lot of mountains on our way to Chengde last weekend and they all looked very unique. It will be nice to get out of the city again and do some more rural exploring. I'll be sure to update the blog and post some pictures once we get back.
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