Huangshan
Travel Blogs from Huangshan, China
Shaolin
... far away, was the setting for Star Wars. I just watched the pirated version of Episode III here, as almost everything in China that's American intellectual property is a copy. Two and a half billion years ago, when the earth was still in its ...
A Different Kind of Enlightenment
... Sea Canyon conjure images of beauty and peace. Now, in the peak of summer, tourists clog the mountains. This is no surprise: China has many people. What is a surprise is how the Chinese tourists related to the mountain. It was not like the signs ...
Girls power, or so they say...
Lugo Hu is probably the most remote lake I've washed my cloths in. It is 8 hours of Anxious Torturous Drive (according to the road signs) from Lijiang. I come here to find the last matriarchal society in the world. I'm hoping to meet some cool galls, but ...
Huang Shan (Yellow Mountain)
Huang Shan is near the area where Mimi's farther was sent during the Cultural Revolution. He was a university professor and sent to the countryside to be "re-educated", learn the peasant life and study Mao's quotations. Once he became sick and Mimi ...
Extra stinky sauce and a belly wash please cock
Amazingly Andrew and I made it up in time for breakfast and were eager to get on to the internet to find out all the election news. Emer on the other hand felt dreadful and was horrified at the dregs left in the vodka ...
I wish I'd bought the plastic bag outfit
... Chinese painters and poets. The well known Chinese saying is that "There is no need to see any other mountain after Huangshan". Its famous granite peaks which reach 1864m were formed 100 million years ago and are well known for having an ...
Tired!
Given that it's been 4 months since hitting the road, I'm starting to feel the effects of burnout, and I'm feeling very tired today. Travelling has made me see the differences between a tourist and traveller so clearly, and today I decided to have a day ...
Trip through the Countryside
Today was probably the highlight of the tour for I ventured through very traditional villages and beautiful countryside. We had an opportunity to meet the traditional people, and this is a really great strength of Intrepid tours. I absolutely loved ...
Not Margo's Night!
... a state of disrepair. Qiaotou is nothing special, but as I travelled through this region, I noticed huge changes between mainland China and bordering Tibet, especially with the appearance of the people. The Tibettan people are much more attractive and ...
Sweet & Sour
... huge valleys of granite and enormous formations of rock, capped by gravity defying slivers of stone, robed by the gnarled forms of Huangshan pine trees. The scene has an unworldly, ethereal atmosphere. Then the sun begins to ascend from the mist in a ...
Day 2 of Tiger Leaping Gorge
I awoke feeling quite refreshed, not too sore, and ready to tackle the second day of our trek through the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Today was a lot easier than yesterday. We walked another 11km, taking us about 5 hours to get to Sean's Guesthouse situated ...
Another day of travel really
... a park trying to talk English to me! I guess the reason for these generational differences is due to the importance China places on learning English these days, as the country advances economically and commercially, whereas as recently as 20 years ago, i ...
Serious mountaineering with VIPs
... foot massage place and that was also really expensive, and the lady had the cheek to ask me for a tip! I guess that's a habit in Huangshan because it happened to me the last time. We walked over to the Grand Canyon of the Western Sea, which had really ...
Huangshan Part 1
... an unecessary amount of pictures in my travels. I suppose that would make my motto: Shoot now...ask questions later. In my defense: Huangshan offers so many spectacular vistas that it is almost impossible to get a bad picture up there. I will say that you ...
History and Fashion
Today we toured the historic villages of Xidi and Hongcun, on a chinese tour. Hongcun is a UNESCO world heritage site, and beautifully set with the mountains as a backdrop and a crescent lake at the entry point. We wander about historic buildings ...
A Day Around Tunxi
... me to ride. Pedicabs, however, flag me down at every opportunity. After lunch, we decide that Saturday will be a trip to HuangShan, rain or shine, and head to the train station to buy Sunday train tickets to Beijing. We already know which train we want, ...
Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) Day 1
Yellow Mountain, or Huangshan, was one of the places I was most looking forward to visiting in China. Unfortuntely, my trip turned out quite disappointing as an array of things prevented me from seeing the Mountain the way I really wanted to see it. ...
Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) Day 3
... it more thrilling and memorable. In the end though I did manage to get a few decent photos and I did get to see a different side of China that I would have missed in the city so I'm still happy that I got the chance to go. But take my advice, NEVER go on ...
Tourist Galore
Haungshan (yellow mountain) has some amazing scenery but the pleasure of hiking around (up to 1800m) is dampened by the crowds who block the way and appear in your photos. That's not all since the whole place has been supplied with steps as opposed to ...
Yellow Mountain
... our sponsors-- China Mobile. We woke up at 5 am to take showers, eat a good healthy breakfast--that consisted of the traditional China breakfast of fried breads, beer, and cigarettes- (just kidding with ya... there was no fried breads) No we ate our bean ...
Huangshan
... . And boy, Are they loud! I could literally hear them yelling from across the mountains. If you were ever lost in Huangshan, just follow the noise and you will find civilization again. The descend On my second day I walked 16 km (approximately 5 ...
Huangshan Part 2
... we had discussed possible routes to hike around the mountain. Luckily, a tourist staying in our room was very knowledgable about Huangshan and suggested what he considered to be the most beautiful area of Huangshan: XiHai (roughly pronounced She-High). At ...
Smaller Chinese Villages
... ). Outside the train station, a motorcycle is hit by a taxi as we walk by. This is (surprisingly) the first accident I've seen in China. The guy is lucky it was in a parking area and it only knocked his shoe off. We eat breakfast at a nearby hostel (that ...
Die laengste Treppe der Welt!
... in Hefei an. Der Ort ist kein Touristenort und auch fuer uns nur ein Stopp fuer die Nacht, weil eine Weiterfahrt nach Huangshan zu lange dauern wuerde. Zum Glueck lag das Hotel gleich auf der anderen Seite der Strasse, weil man besonders in solchen Orten ...
Awesome Redefined, Huangshan
... get breakfast, and then again to get some more fuel. Eventually the bus drops me off in TongKou, seemingly near nothing related to HuangShan. Before speeding off, the driver pointed me up a road without a sidewalk, making me wonder... I mill around for a ...
Return to the mountains
... to see why this country has an electricity shortage and has to build a new power station every day. Huangshan is China's most famous mountain and is accessed from a town called Tunxi (also called Huangshan Shi just to complicate things) ...
Le montagnes jaune de Huangshan
Le Huangshan ou encore appele »ÆÉ½ Le mont Huang Shan est inscrit sur la liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1990 pour sa nature sauvage exceptionnelle, et pour les esp¨¨ces rares menac¨¦es qu'il h¨¦berge. Il est est fort connu en ...
Yellow Mountain (Huangshan) Day 2
It wasn't until 1:30 on the 2nd day of my Yellow mountain tour (half way into the trip) that we arrived at the base of the Mountain. After putting up with all the bland tourist sites the first day I was glad to finally be at the Mountain. I was also ...
Mr Cheng vs Mr Hu
... On reflection, another day would have been good in Shanghai to see more of it, but I think I'll be back before I leave China, so I'll go up a skyscraper then. This was the first time we overshot our destination. As usual we thought the ...

