After touring the museum, Yu Sha still has a few hours left until she meets up with Hue Chi. So, she decided to visit a famous hot spring spa resort, Floating Cloud, a little over an hour away, southeast of the city if travel the express freeway route.What she often does when she strays by herself is finding cool spots and places to visit before bringing Su Na to visit. Usually, if she ended up liking the place, Su Na also like too.
Yu Sha instructed Keng to take her to Floating Cloud Spa Resort to which he agreed. He thought that was a good choice she made. Floating Cloud Spa Resorts is beautiful, located deep in the mountains, not only it"s natural hot spring have healing properties, but the airs are refreshing, surrounded by luscious greens and beautiful hiking trails.
About an hour later, Keng pulled up in front of the Floating Cloud Spa entrance. The place is out of the way, deep into the mountains, miles before they hit the entrance, surrounded on the two sides are hard rocks and boulders. There is a huge parking lot in front of the entrance, and after the entrance is a huge gate and a flight of stair steps. On the side, parallel to the stairs is a minor incline slope for people who have a suitcase they can wheel.
Yu Sha only planned to spend about 1 to 1.5 hours exploring, and so she does not have any luggage so she does not have to check in a room.
She stepped out of the car and a greeter came out to meet her. Yu Sha didn"t reserve a room but would like to check out the services they offer to which they gladly accepted to show her around.
Floating Cloud Spa has different packages one can choose from body ma.s.sage, facial spa and treatment. They can join the public hot spring or booked private hot springs and there are many trails one can hike to get the best of nature. The hiking trails are ranked by how hard they are, and one famous trail is the Waterfall trails. It"s longer and harder than the other trails, as there are a lot of inclines and downward slopes. But at the end of the hike is a gorgeous turquoise waterfall.
Yu Sha thought, she"ll book a private hot spring in an hour so she has time to explore the hikes. That way she can wash off before going back to the city. She downloaded a map of the area to her phone and headed out.
She wanted to check out the Waterfall trail. For ordinary people, the trails take 2 hours to get to the waterfall and a little less than 2 hours to get back as there are not as much inclines. For Yu Sha, it"ll take her about 30 minutes to get there and 20 minutes to get back if she does not use her ability. Using her ability will be like a flash and would not allow time to enjoy the journey. As she has no one to wait for, she can go at her own pace which is a lot quicker. Since it"s midweek, the spa is not as busy as it is during the weekends so the place is more quiet than usual.
In front of the hiking trail entrance, Yu Sha looked up and did some stretching. It has been a while since she gets any real physical activities in. Since entering into the adult world, she has been busy working and does not have enough time to stay in shape. She took it upon herself to finish the hike in under 1 hour using only pure physical force. After stretching, she sped up and disappeared out of sight quickly. Every now and then when she came upon a few people, she"ll slow down as she pa.s.sed them but when she is out of sight, she"ll speed up again.
After sometimes, Yu Sha arrived at the waterfall. She looked at the timer on her phone and it took her 40 minutes. She hissed disappointing at herself. "d.a.m.n! I"ve gotten rusty!" The waterfall was quite high about 100 meters from the top to the bottom. The hike only takes you to the bottom where you get to enjoy and watch the water falling. Not many people attempted the harsh journey up to the top where the water falls from the cliff.
Yu Sha took a few pictures of the waterfall and after snapping a few photos, she decided to go all the way to the top. There are no trails to get to the top. You just have to make your own trails as the way up are quite steep. Ordinary people would struggle getting to the top but for Yu Sha, it wasn"t hard for her to make her own trail up.
Soon, she was at the very top. It was like a world of its own. The top of the waterfall is like a valley of its own, and in the distance, the river flowed from another mountain top, surrounded by more mountains while the clouds floats around the mountain peaks. "How could something so beautiful be so close to the city?" Then she thought, they took the express freeway. It cuts travel time in half. Still, 2 hours away from the metropolitan city is still close considered how big the entire country is. Yu Sha follow the rivers until she spotted something odd in her left peripheral vision.
In between the base of two conjoining mountain is a gap into the mountain and the gap looked like it"s being covered by a flimsy clear veil. Curious she stopped her track and took a detour heading straight for the gap.
She turned on her phone light as she entered the gap. Inside is like a dark tunnel and only until 10 minutes after walking into the tunnel that she saw lights peaking through the end. She soon came upon a flourished limitless land, clear beautiful skies, quiet, tranquil and odd feeling place.
Yu Sha turned off her phone light and proceeded to explore around when she stumbled upon of what looked like a temple. More curious, she walked towards the entrance when she noticed a beautiful man in white robes, not what ones would wear in her time. He has long luscious black hairs and ruby eyes. His expression so peaceful and beautiful while tending to the garden like the flowers are so fragile and precious to him. But, she didn"t think anything odd, as this place looks more like a temple and this country have different clothing styles from her home country.