Mt Telecabin Tochal (3)

~~~~SNOW STORM~~~~

You might ask how heavy the snowing was. Maybe you can get some ideas from the photo below.

This was taken at 1200m above sea level. The rest of this entry is all about this area of the mountain.

This photo is blur not because my camera lens were fogged. It's because the snow was too thick and the wind was strong.
And it was knee-deep....
What's with this Ali baba pose? Hahaha..

QY: Brrrr... Cold leh....

QY: Maybe tasting the ice will make me feel less cold...

Hahahah.. weird lor.. funny QY.

There is a small shop just beside the cable car station. They serve hot tea and sold snacks. We ordered a total of 12 cups of tea for everyone. Everyone couldn't wait to land their cold palms on some hot surface. QY even suggested me to put my palms onto that metal tub you see in the above picture. That tub was used to contain the tea. Their tea is quite special and the sugar they used was a big brown lump.

Cheers~ Taking photos with the Iranians. We took alot of photos with the Iranians in fact. They were sporting and friendly people. When they saw us taking photos, they all ran over and joined in! We didn't even asked them to join in! So funny....

A series of super funny group photos we took before the Iranians joined in.

In this above photo, nai ba and kanglong were actually carrying me! 'Put me down!!!'

The above few pics were taken with multi burst. hee heee.. cute right?

2 Iranians joined us in photo taking...

Then a few more Iranians started joining us.....

And more....
And more....

And alot more! hahaha.. Seems like they were having fun joining us in the photo taking. Can you see me? I am once again hidden lor.

Behaving like good brothers.
Nai ba! Put me down!! Naiba tried to carry me but I think I was too heavy for him la....

Then Kanglong and Naiba combined powers! I said,"PUT ME DOWN!"

Then they decided to lift QY up too!

Then QY seems to enjoy being lifted up, kicking around like a kid.

I dunno why suddenly Li lao shi decided to mop the floor. Maybe cuz the floor was too slippery he was afraid to fall down? So funny lor..

Some interesting stuff we saw around the mountain.

I wonder if the bike can still work after being forzen like this. Totally covered in snow.

I wonder if this works too. Apparently, no one will want to ride on it and make themself dizzy in a weather like this. Imagine if you puke, your puke will be frozen and preserved there. EEE.... :P

Nice and romantic place~! I think it will be nice to sit here and drink hot tea when it's not snowing....

I like this photo very much! But I didn't see these telephone booths there. Awww.. missed it. I wonder who took this and where he took it...

Nice trees... Looked like some scenery from the korean shows~

I will blog the disasterous coach waiting incident after we left the mountain next time~

Mt Telecabin Tochal (2)

Continued from my previous blog on Adventure in Mt TT. I think we walked for about 30min before reaching the cable car station. By that time, Ang was already very tired and she wanted to go back to hotel soon. We told her that we are taking the cable car up while she can stay at the cafe there for a break. She told us to be back in 1 hour but I think nobody listened to her....

Another photo Tehran from Mt TT. You can get a clearer view here.

QY: Stomp Stomp....
Me: Nooo...
Naiba: Phew.. Tired...

Hahaha.. I also don't know what were doing in the above photo. QY~ Why you pull your skirt up so high? It's forbidden in Iran to be so arousing lor!

Falzi was trying to balance a snowball on his head.

And he made Naiba join him!

The snow was getting heavier. Naiba put his coat on me, afraid that I will be cold. I looked like a rice dumpling lor.


Bala and Xin en... Bala looked very happy to play with the snow~ hahaha.. I realized that Bala always got funny expressions.

Bala and Xin En again.

Around the cable car station, there were a few cafes and shops. They sold hot food for the tourists but I didn't dare to eat. The food looked weird! Anyway, I didn't felt like eating. Too cold to move.

Awwww.. So sweet, naiba was feeding Bala. I tried eating this bowl of noodle-like substance. It tasted sour. Strange taste and I didn't like it very much but Naiba made me eat some. He said that I should warm my stomach.

The cafe and foodstall. See we were all crowding in front of it. Discussing about taking the cable car up. Note that the ground was still clear of snow at this time.
After an hour of waiting for the cable car tickets, the ground looked like the above photo already! Amazing right....

Say Cheese~ Group photo taken at the front of the cafe. Can you see where I am? I am right behind. At this point of time, I was already so frozen that I don't feel like moving a muscle. I didn't bring enough warm clothes and I didn't expect to experience such freezing temperatures.

See my face? Like a sick face lor. My toes were very painful at that time. I only put on a pair of socks (unlike others who put on 3 pairs) and my toes were numb and frozen. I can only feel the pain and when I tried moving them, they felt numb. I kept on kping that my toes were very painful then QY suggested that I take off my boots and wrap some tissue around them.

I didn't want to do that at first because it was too cold and I didn't want to move my painful toes. Many of them advice me to wriggle them to increase blood circulation which I did but they still hurt. Moreover my boots were wet. Water already seeped in. I was too cold and I didn't want to move at all. I just stood there and stone, trying to ignore the pain. I was so worried that my toes will break off..

Finally Naiba came and he also told me to remove my boots and wrap my toes with tissue. I told him I can't move because I am very cold. In the end, he knelt down and removed my boots for me. I was rather surprised with this action as normally guys won't do this sort of things. So he removed my boots, put my feet on his lap, wrap tissue around my toes and put my boots back for me. Then he said,"I am such a good nanny, which nai ba will actually remove your shoes for you? I think only me lor."

Awww.. so sweet.

We waited for a long time before we got the tickets for the cable car. Then we waited for another very long time before we can take one as there was a bloody long queue! Look at the photo above. The queue was super long because that day was a holiday for the Iranians. Notice the Nescafe booth in front? They serve free coffee for the passengers. Even though I don't really like coffee, the cup of hot coffee was like paradise to me when it was so cold. It really helped to warm up a lot.

Me in queue.. My feet still hurt but they were slightly better after naiba wrap them with tissue. So I can still manage to smile abit.

Drinking coffee in the cable car. The cable car can accommodate 6 people in each one. I am sorry that I looked like mad woman. It was terrible to have my hair messed up, a scarf around me and painful toes all at the same time.

Li lao shi accepted an offer from an Iranian for a sip of strong liquor in the cable car. He look as if he and that Iranian are brothers~

Below is a video of crazy people playing in the snow. You can hear lots of laughter and crazy qy and nai ba in action~!



Crazy video... When we arrived at our destination, 1200m above sea level, a snow storm greeted us!

Mt Telecabin Tochal (1)

Yay~ I am going to blog about the super duper beautiful snow mountain, Mt Telecabin Tochal!

I picked out some photos to blog but there are so many photos that I want to share with you guys! I think we took the most photos at the snow mountain throughout the whole trip. There were more photos of the mountain than the performance. And most of the photos taken there were really crazy and funny.

Regardless of how many photos there are, I am going to blog all those that I like because it was one of the happiest and most memorable times in my life. The happiness I felt there was a long lost happiness that I never felt for years and years. I want to write about Mt Telecabin Tochal all that I can remember.

Since there are so many tons of photos that I want to upload, I am going to divide this snow mountain post into parts.

Early in the morning we gathered at around 7am to take the coach. Ang didn't want to join us at first because she said that she has seen snow before and she felt that she might not be able to take the cold. However, I don't know what made her changed her mind. She decided to go with us in the end. Hmmm...

Our coach is slowly approaching the snow mountain.

That is Mt Tochal looming over the old buildings of Tehran.

Mountain Telecabin tochal, the sign at the bottom of the mountain.

Welcome Everybody!

We arrived at the foot of Mt TT. All of us were very excited and spirits were high. We couldn't wait to go up the mountain and feel the real coldness of winter.

The sky was clear, the snow was not that thick and we were wondering to ourselves whether we will get the chance to see snow falling from the sky. I wouldn't dare to ask for much. Being able to see snow has alredy fulfiled one of the wishes I had. I was really happy to see snow, I can't ask for too much but if I can see snow fall, that will really make my snow adventure complete.

We started off trekking our way up the mountain. The sky was still clear. On the right side of the photo, we can see that QY was starting to get crazy. I think most of us went really crazy on the moutain. We played like there is no more days, no more nights. We played really hard, totally forgetting all the troubles of the world. That's why I said it was one of the happiest moments in my life.

We can see Tehran from the mountain.

Nice scenery right?

QY was really getting crazy now.. throwing snowballs at Nai ba!

And Naiba threw one back at QY! Ang was as usual... can't be bothered by our madness.

Then QY tried to throw a snowball at me! Arrgghh.. Faster run!

I siam and she fell.. Then she tried making a bigger snowball!

In this above photo, you can see me taking photo of QY going crazy... hahaha..

Tired, QY decided to take a break in the snow.. The fluffy snow was very comfortable to lie down on but they will make you clothes wet!

QY regained her energy and the war between her and Nai ba begun all over again! Hahaha.. so funny! Apparently Ang was very indifferent to the way the rest of us are behaving. As you can see above. She was simply walking.. She is the one on the right in blue.

Wahaha... dearest Ang was cold too! The rest of us were still going strong.

Till now, there isn't any snowing yet, we continued our way up the mountain after QY fought enough with Naiba.

Walk walk walk... Walk walk walk... and taking photos on the way~

Naiba made me sat on the snow! The snow was very thick and my my feet sank deep into the snow when I stepped on it. Nai ba~ my pants all wet le lah~~

Crazy group photo! There were lots of crazy group photos which I will upload soon. To the right is our Mr Translator and his gf. Mr Translator's name is Habib.

I want to join in the fun too! Smile~

Madness...

People going crazy on the thick snow again!

And playing wrestling in it!

Me and YH were princesses. Hohohoh.... Li lao shi was acting cool again~

Qy.. What is that funny face u are showing? diaoz.. Ang at the side was probably complaining that we were spending too much time on the mountain. She didn't want to spend so much time here. In fact she expected us to see the snow for 1 hour and leave. Unfortunately, we are a bunch of suakus who had never seen snow in our entire lives before. So we basically went mad and played so hard, totally ignore her orders that we can only play for 1 hour. Hahah.. poor Ang.. think she was very angry with us at that moment. She probably was too cold so she wanted to leave.

YH: I am ice kacang seller.. Who want to eat ice kacang?

We continued our way up.. and suddenly I felt something. A tingling feeling on my nose... Someone suddenly said,"Hey, what's that floating down? raining or snowing?"

Upon hearing the word 'snowing', a few of us ki siao again. Where's the snow??? We tried to feel the snow floating down with our palms stretched out.

Hm.... Where is the snow? I want to feel the snow!

Really got snowing meh????

It's really snowing!!! Look at the snow... Yah, maybe it's not too obvious in the above photo but we didn't know that it's only the beginning of a mega snow storm.

We walked all the way to the cable car station to take it right up to about 1200m above sea level. Actually, the cable car can take us all the way up to 7000m above sea level but we didn't go up that high. I think the thin air can kill me.

When I free, I will start blogging on the cable car station and the snow storm~