Huang Shan Xin Gang 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.

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 grows, people naming differently. For those pines grow at the lower altitude ...

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 grows, people naming differently. For those pines grow at the lower altitude ...

... Local people usually serve the dishes when Mother-in-Law's visit their married daughters. Our driver/tour guide found this local restaurant around the entrance area of Huangshan national park. The fish tastes so good (even with some stinky smell) that we even got the chance to take the picture.

... the stone steps to the hotels and the one guy I asked said he made $7.50/load and took 2 loads/day. We thought that was insane since we were huffing and puffing carrying day packs. Their calves were like Popeye’s calves. They put in new cable cars to get to the top (since 1993 when I was here last I mean.) So we guessed that the old one was used to send supplies up/down, but they still have to use porters to carry the stuff from the cable car ...

... use of this name "Mount Huang" is often attributed to Chinese poet Li Bai. Mount Huang was fairly inaccessible and little-known in ancient times, but its change of name in 747 AD seems to have brought the area more attention; from then on the area was visited frequently and many temples were built there. Mount Huang is known for its stone steps carved into the side of the mountain, of which there may be more than 60 ...

... I ordered my usual YHA meal (club sandwich) and a very cold Corona beer and got to talking to a guy named Justin from Canada. He’s a teacher back home and has been in China for a month teaching at Summer Camp. We chatted for several hours and of course the bar closed at eleven when then meant the air-conditioner was turned off so we decided end the ...

We arrived in the Huangshan Train station at 0700 with a plan to climb the famous mountain that same day, despite having spent the previous night barely sleeping on the miserable K-Train. We brushed off a flock of touts and headed toward minibuses waiting for enough passengers to make the run up to Tankou, the gateway town to Haungshan UNESCO Heritage Mountain. We rode the bus to the end and took the first available hotel with a decent price. We asked the hotel about busses to our ...

... a hotel room (that I never did write the name of) and I had a little incident with the maid-girl and glass bathrooms that don't have screens on them that was quite hilarious - and then we crashed. I was, needless to say, quite proud of my gal after keeping up with me hiking on probably the hardest trip I've ever done (if she could do that, then she can do anything with me). 17th: The next day, we went out to a restaurant down the street ...

... quieter (relatively) area of the West Sea Canyon. Neither Lonely Planet or Rough Guide even mention this area in passing, but we found it to be the most pleasant, scenic, and dizzying segment of our stay. The trail continued to wind down long after our termination point, a bridge suspended from a hanging walkway over the open canyon...nerve-wracking but spectacular! We made it around the summit loop to complete a rugged and ...