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Huangshan Slideshow
Huangshan
Travel Blogs from Huangshan, China
Huangshan, overnight
... a bowl of ice. We put our ice into our drinks, and boy do they taste great. It is our first rum & coke in China, what a triumph. So we have another, the second one was much easier. After Sherry returns, we are playing our favorite dice game. She ...
Pine
Yellow Mountain itself likes groups of giant granite. There are only dusts or derbies stuck between stones. Those pine tree manages to stick their root in such a tiny space and grow in a such elegant ways. Depending on the altitude where those pines ...
Heart Lock
Yellow Mountain itself likes groups of giant granite. There are only dusts or derbies stuck between stones. Those pine tree manages to stick their root in such a tiny space and grow in a such elegant ways. Depending on the altitude where those pines ...
Magic Stone
For ages, people can not understand how this huge stone ends up at the tip of the peak and believe the stone has some kind of magic power - fertility. People will bride the stone by stocking coins in a crack and pat the stone. Poor park ranger has to ...
Amazing Huang Shan and the killer workout
... a flying piece of debris. The next morning was an early start leaving the hostel at 6.30am to catch a mini bus to Mount Huangshan (something I was dreading). The journey took about an hour to the foot of the mountain where we had to catch another coach ...
Welcome to Pandora
... 8 wurden wir aufgeweckt und frühstückten dann unsere Mehlspeisen die wir am Vortag gekauft hatten. Danach warteten wir darauf dass Huangshan endlich kam und verpassten dann sogar fast die Station. Ein Chinese der unter mir schlief sagte uns dann dass ...
if a 60 year old man carrying 75ltrs can climb...
...the mountain then I can definately make it! This morning we were off to climb to the top of the yellow mountain and to sleep at the top in a tent. We couldnt wait! After a long impatient 10 minute walk on my behalf (H-he was driving me mad) we ...
Huangshan
Huangshan! One of the most famous mountains in China. I arrived here a couple of days ago with my close friend from Xi'an; Li Feng Yan. When the bus dropped us off at the station we weren't sure exactly where to stay so the taxi driver called his sister ...
could that mountain BE any higher (Chandler)
... mountain. So we walked to the bus station and found a MCD's for breakfast and then caught our 9:30 bus to huangshan..... N.B. (Add) I got a free haircut on the street yesterday because the trainees were practising on willing passers by. But because I was ...
Freezing, freezing and it's spring time
Oh, how I wish I had gloves. Warm gloves. Huangshan Mountain is very, very cold, considering it's almost April. According to a girl I met in the mountain today, it was -6 degrees celsius at around 6pm today. Furthermore, there is still some snow up here. ...
Climbing down Huangshan
We have talked Sherry out of taking us to see the famous sunrise on the mountain. We would have to get up at 3 and hike two hours in the dark before breakfast to see it. It is quite cloudy, and think we have seen beautiful sunrises at home, and talk ...
Goodbye Shanghai
... of Pizza and you just can’t find that in Changchun. Nana and I really enjoyed eating real food again! Our train ride to Huangshan was quite the adventure because of a little mistake made on my part. After arriving about an hour and a half early to ...
Misty Stairs of Huangshan
... top. Talking to Rose she explained that the week before in Chinese school holidays the wait for a cable car was 3 hours!! Huangshan is predominantly a Chinese holiday destination and on Chinese holidays it gets very crowded with up to 40,000 people on ...
Yellow Peaks
... breathtaking vantage points that day but could never bring myself as close to the edge as Dylan. Everyone has their limits I guess. Huangshan is notorious for experiencing three out of the four seasons on a daily basis and that day was no exception. The ...
Incised Decoration/ Yellow Mountain
... to have lunch and then finished to the summit in the afternoon. We choose to climb Lotus peak it is the highest on Mt. Huangshan with a elevation of 1864m. Thankfully we only have to climb back down to where we had eaten lunch and there is a Gondula that ...
The Yellow Mountain
Sun 13th Sept. Tour Day 22: Huang Shan We had an early start today to catch a bus to visit Huang Shan, the Yellow Mountain. We stayed in the town of Tangkou. In the afternoon, we visited Hongcun Village, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Ringed by ...
Yellow Mountains - the getting there!
After a good sleep on the nice beds we got into a bus for what george said would be a two hour bus ride. It turned out that the but ride was going to be three hour ride to a place where we change coaches and then it turned into anothe hour and ...
Huangshan, the yellow mountains
Yo Guys ! I SO can't see shit outside that i thought i'd jump on the computer for an hour. I'm in Huangshan, on the most beautiful mountains in china, but i'm not luck it's all foggy and freezing! Anyways, I'll come back some other time... Tonight i ...
HUANGSHAN et Villages alentours
... . Heureusement nous ne sommes pas seuls et rentrons en bus en compagnie de 6 autres touristes. Après avoir visité la montagne de Huangshan, dite la montagne jaune, nous sommes allé a Tunxe , ville située un peu plus au sud dans l'idée de prendre un ...
Buy a Practical Solar Backpack for School
You can find just about anything on a school backpack. Cute kids will see themselves coming and going with bags featuring iCarly, Team Jacob, Transformers, and Disney Princesses. A lot of these trendy packs are cute but useless. Check out these solar ...
Huangshan: Yellow Mountain
... The crowds of people also began to swell, as we met the gondola riders at the main attraction. The Welcoming Pine, the symbol of Huangshan, is the "best photography spot" and darts out from the highest rock on the third highest peak at 1823 meters. As we ...
School visit and West Lake
A two hour bus ride to the Chengtan High School started our day. Chengtan HS is in a rural area; it is an impressive campus in an impoverished area. We passed by tea fields and through a county that makes 60% of the worlds neckties on the way. The ...
The beauty of Huangshan
... about Nanjing being a transport hub!). The next task was to locate the bus station to hopefully get straight on a bus south to Huangshan area.... eventually after a hot sweaty walk (crawl), a taxi ride, a long wait in massive queue, we were left holding ...
Leaving Huangshan
... own design. We were all very impressed with the detail that we saw in the stones and the art. Many famous ink stones originated from Huangshan and his most expensive stone was worth about 100,000 RMB which is a lot of money in China. Carlo was having fun ...
First words from Chris!
... arrival times. After a call with our local sim card to the travel agent we learned that there is one station serving both Huangshan and Tunxi. Estimated arrival time around seven in the morning, so I happily changed my alarm from 05.15 to 06.30 and I ...
July 12 - 13
If I hadn't "really" experienced traveling in China yet, this trip certainly achieved that title. The trip lasted from 6:30 pm - 5:30 am, the bus had no bathroom, my seat/bed was built for a person slightly over 5 feet tall, and ...