after a good night rest at the shangri-la old town, we woke up fresh. assemble at 7:30 and headed for breakfast. the usual chinese breakfast, hardboil egg, rice porrige, bun and pickle. got quite bored with such breakfast for the past 4 days but... we had to ensure we filled our stomach for the day especially today when we are heading to the snow mountain.
at the base, we rented the coat at 28rmb each and bought 0xygen tank at 45rmb. it is easier to rent than bring our own thick coat that occupied the luggage.
cable car was the only way to get to the top of the snow mountain. this cable car is known to tbe asia longest and it has 2 separated session. first session brought us from 1000+m to 3000m and the second session brought us from 3000+m to 4500m. as we go higher, we can fell that the oxygen is thinner. started to feel giddy/headache. 
after 20mins at the top, my son was feeling very lethargic. felt very sleepy but we ensure that he do not sleep.
took a picture at the top of the mountain. the weather was not good, slight rain and very foggy. could not see far enough to view the other 8 mountains (suppose to be able to view them during a good day).
this was the oxygen that we bought. it was really helpful.
a group picture when the weather started to turn better but there is still no blue skyby evening we reached back lijiang. decided to follow the rest + guide for a local dinner. Lijiang hot pot with chickend and spicy pork rib (then, i was not aware of swine flu yet... haha).
turn out for the dinner was pretty good. this was not part of the package, we have to pay for our own meal but each of us paid 25rmb but we did have a very good dinner. pork, chicken, rice noodle, mushroom, green vegetable, etc and a bottle of beer.that was it for day 4.
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