28 - 9. ACROSS SEA AND LAND

The lake in the middle of Jinan is the pride of the town and the park circling the lake is several hundred years old. Pensioners played traditional music and chanted, others performed tai chi. The park is pleasantly relaxed. A fast boat shaped as a tea-pavilion sailed us out to a tiny island with a temple and a pavilion where poets and sages long ago gathered and wrote poems. Green Car was fully charged and ready to take us to a holy mountain south of the city. We choose the smallest, steepest, narrowest