Huangshan, China Travel Blogs

A Different Kind of Enlightenment
Jul 17, 2005 (23 photos)

... 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 said ...

Trip through the Countryside
Apr 7, 2006 (15 photos)

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 ...

Another day of travel really
Mar 23, 2007 (3 photos)

... 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 ...

Where's Huangshan?
Jun 29, 2009 (16 photos)

... vendors, or trying to navigate using the incomplete and confusing maps on the trails. In their infinite wisdom, the keepers of Huangshan Mountain decided that it would be best to put a trail map at every fork in the trail. They also decided that these ...

Serious mountaineering with VIPs
Aug 19, 2006

... 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 awesome ...

History and Fashion
Sep 25, 2008

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 ( ...

Tourist Galore
Aug 19, 2007 (12 photos)

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
Nov 13, 2005 (30 photos)

... 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
Jul 7, 2005 (30 photos)

... . 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 ½ ...

Die laengste Treppe der Welt!
May 21, 2009 (26 photos)

... 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 ...

Huangshan (Yellow) Mountain
Sep 28, 2009 (16 photos)

Huangshan (Yellow) Mountain Huangshan Mountain is the most famous mountain in China. It is famed as being the most beautiful. There is an ancient Chinese saying that says "After visiting Huangshan Mountain, there is no reason to ever visit another ...

Xidi Village
Sep 28, 2009 (12 photos)

Xidi Village Located outside of Huangshan Mountain, Xidi Village is a stunning example of an ancient Chinese village. Since the village was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, I was afraid it was now touristy and had nothing left to make it ...

Hongcun Village
Sep 28, 2009 (12 photos)

Hongcun Village One of two famous villages located near Huangshan, Hongcun is the more famous of the two because it has been used in several major Chinese movies. The village is gorgeous. I was afraid it would be a tourist trap because it became so ...

Return to the mountains
May 8, 2008 (1 photos)

... 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
Jul 26, 2008 (33 photos)

Le Huangshan ou encore appele »Æɽ 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¨¨ ...

Chinese Tourists
Aug 19, 2007

... wrong?" This was the question posed by a group of expats sitting around a youth hostel in scenic Huangshan Mountain, China's beloved mountain range in Anhui Province, discussing the legions of tourists who had disrupted their 72-peak excursion. ...

Calves of Steel!
Sep 24, 2008

... we leave Beijing and get the overnight train to Huang Shan. We're in soft sleeper class which is like Russian 2nd class but in China most folk go hard sleeper so this is a bit of luxury. Not much to say about the journey, as usual our comparment friends ...

The Yellow Mountain
Apr 30, 2008 (55 photos)

... formations. Huang Shan's natural beauty is complemented by the sacred mountain aura of nearby Buddhist Jiuhua Shan, one of China holiest places of pilgrimages. Although one would think that there is nothing that can take away the beauty, unearthly views ...

Climbing a mountain is easy with stairs...
Jul 31, 2006

... live there and they are not crowded with tourists like the water villages around Shanghai. The night train back sucked again as some dude snored all night, but the trip was all-around awesome. Huangshan had top 5 scenery and tons of stuff to do.

My Favorite Mountain in the World
Sep 25, 2009 (10 photos)

... saw a bunch of wild monkeys which sealed the deal on our scale.  Paul said on our Feuerborn family scale (for natural beauty), Huangshan gets a 10, and just for comparison, if you put Yosemite on the same scale, it would be a 7.  This place is ...

huangshan
Aug 1, 2005 (3 photos)

paradise indeed

Climb every mountain
Nov 13, 2008 (30 photos)

... the bus station at the opposite end of town to where it actually is. An hour of stressing later we caught the bus to Huangshan mountain. We paid the extortionate entry fee (200 yuan each!) and took the cable car to the top of the mountain. We passed ...

China's great peaks
Aug 12, 2008 (11 photos)

... and tourists and poets to tears.  It moved us to an elevation of 1700 meters!  This was our most incredible China experience.  We hiked 7.5 meters up the spectacular Eastern Steps, spent the night in a tent village, woke up at 5am for ...

CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN
Sep 29, 2007 (29 photos)

... any other mountains after visiting the five famous mountains. No need to visit the five famous mountains after coming back from Huangshan." They were right. Before coming to Huangshan we had heard a couple of things: 1) it is gorgeous 2) the entire ...

Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)
Sep 28, 2009 (42 photos)

... . When we finished we decided to stroll down the Tunxi Ancient Street. The street was an ancient commercial district in Huangshan. A large majority of the buildings along the street are originally from the Qing Dynasty, and the remainders are faithful ...

The HuangShan Climb
May 5, 2006 (14 photos)

I think the majority of this entry is best viewed through the video clips and photos of the day.... Basically...we got up at 2am (another last minute panic by the leader), piled into mini vans and got dropped off at the cable car station, in the dark, ...

Huangshan-High Heels, Cement Stairs, and a Sunrise
Oct 24, 2007 (14 photos)

... ; Along the way were verdant sugarcane fields, with the farmers vending their stalks roadside. Eventually we arrived to Huangshan City (aka Tunxi) and hitched another local bus up past the entrance town and to our unassuming and cheap ...

The Assault on Huangshan (and my legs!)
Jul 31, 2006 (20 photos)

Huangshan Fabled as China's most beautiful mountain and a stern physical and mental test for anyone who wants to climb it. So they put in a cable car, or three. In an incredible feat of social engineering they actually managed to get every last person ...

Hu Kaiwen Inkstick Factory
Sep 28, 2009 (8 photos)

Hu Kaiwen Ink Stick Factory The Hu Kaiwen Ink stick Factory is the oldest continually operating ink stick factory in China. Huangshan is famous for producing the finest traditional Chinese art supplies in China. One of these is ink sticks. Ink sticks ...

Tunxi Ancient Street
Sep 28, 2009 (4 photos)

... one of a kind memories and gifts to take home. I will definately return to the Tunxi Ancient Street when I go back to Huangshan next year. Ticket Price:  N/A Time Needed:  1-1.5 hours Hours of Operation: 10:00-8:00 Location:  In the ...