Guomai Hotel - Huangshan

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 keep cleaning the coins but not taking the coins. It is a brutal task when it is wet, cold and dark.

... people call them pony tail pine because their leaves/branches only grow one direction. For those pine trees grow at the higher altitude areas, people call them Yellow Mountain Pine.

No matter how the tree grows or leaves are heading, their roots are so strong and firm that make those trees grow more generations to come.

... people call them pony tail pine because their leaves/branches only grow one direction. For those pine trees grow at the higher altitude areas, people call them Yellow Mountain Pine.

No matter how the tree grows or leaves are heading, their roots are so strong and firm that make those trees grow more generations to come.

... br>Cable Car:
High season:
Adult: 80rmb
Children: 40rmb
Low season:
Adult: 65rmb
Children: 35
Huangshan Mountain:
Adult: 200rmb
Elderly Age 60-70: 100rmb
Students and children under 1.1 meters: 100rmb
Elderly over age 70: Free
Time Needed:
At least one day
Hours of Operation:
N/A
Location:
Located near Huangshan City in Anhui Province

... people live in town are mostly doing tourist business. A lady with her husband run the place, they were very friendly and helpful for my trip to Huangshan. They guilded me to the bus station to the mountain, drew a map with recommended must see spot, booked hotel for me for stay overnight in the mountain with a fairly cheap price.

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... vertical up a cliff and I struggled even to get to the gate at the lower point to get a shot of it. Plus I really don't think our legs could have handled it! As we neared the bottom of the mountains we ran into some wild monkeys which we slowed down to get some pictures of. There was a group of about 6 or 7 old and young monkeys rummaging around for food in the undergrowth and some had even roamed onto the path below us but as we rounded the corner the eldest of the group ...

... aggresser par ces vendeurs affames d argent. Les touristes chinois sont partout et sont toujours munis de ce guide qui hurle dans son microphone. Pour resumer, le charme architectural reste present, mais le plaisir est limite...et je n ose meme pas imaginer la facon dont les personnes qui habitaient les lieux ont ete expulser le jour ou le village a ete classe... A faire?? a ne pas faire....? a vous de faire votre propre jugement

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 being left in it's natural state so it feels a little bit like being inside a shopping mall with no quick exit. Three days afterwards and 4000 steps are still killing our legs, so we're not ...