Huangshan Media Hotel

... down the mountain turned into 2008 Moscow, Idaho's winter. Likely I was the only one in the group who got a tent to himself and got to use both blankets for himself (one of the couples in our group only got one blanket...HA!!!). I still barely slept seeing as it was frigid cold. At 5:00 we awoke and dash up the rock face to get the look out point where the sunrise could be seen. It was windy, cold and full of loud Chinese people ...

... breakfast was really good. I had scrambled eggs and ham. The scrambled eggs were so so, a little bit of pepper, but they weren’t peppery enough. The ham, oh wow. I only got 3 pieces, but those pieces were heaven. It was just ham smothered with lemon juice and tons of salt and pepper. It was really really good. I think our lodging here is so so, but it kind of stinks that everything is so damp. It is weird to be sleeping on damp covers. It is ...

... 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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The sleeper train from Xi'an took us to Nanjing. The 5M people and booming city is famous for the massacre from Japanese during their invasion in 1937 when Nanjing was still China's capital.
As a result of Chinese exaggerating the number of crimes (up to 300,000 casualties) and Japanese efforts to deny or rationalize them, the massacre remains a stumbling block in Sino-Japanese ...

... br> The auto tour guide system (ATGS01) system is the latest AGS product of our
corporation. It is a great thing for self-guided visitors when they visit a big museum or scenic spot. The ATGS01 system can play rich media contents of different languages so that visitors of different native languages can be guided during a tour at the same time.
Our equipment has the highest quality/price ...

... on a small Chinese horse. Its also a good idea to bring your own drinks as a normal bottle of coke or whatever has been marked up quite a bit.

The 70 Yuan entry fee will give you entry to three caves of varying sizes.

BUT when it comes to Cave 24 I tried to find it on foot myself and spent about an hour here and there but ...

... said the wrong name without thinking about it.

Does anyone else do these silly things?
Or is it just me and Homer Simpson!
Ok, let’s forget Homer and myself and cross over to Yixian County

Yixian County is one of the two oldest counties in Anhui, has a history of more than two thousand two hundred years and was named after Huangshan mountain as it is located at ...

... I said. We chatted and giggled our way to Tunxi City which is the main city for Huangshan (mountain). So if you want to climb Huang Mountain and actually find a Chinese ticket person who can read and understand Chinese then you need to grab a ticket to Tunxi City. I arrived in Tunxi just after seven in the evening and felt like death.

Last night ...

... and hopped (and paid for) another bus to go to Huangshan city. The bus didn't want to move though, and if some of the Chinese men hadn't been so angry, I would have been (as it was I was worn out and quite happy to have them yell at the woman themselves). This is when I first noticed the trend in China for the old women to be... utter hags. The girls are the most beautiful, innocent and generally kind, the eyes are the most ...

... made our way to Tangkou, the gateway town to the mountain. Hoping to secure accomodation before the ascent we searched briefly for a famed figure, Mr. Hu. Mr. Hu is legendary for his ability to feed and find accomodation for foreign travellers where no other can. Unfortunately he remained a mythical creature for us, as we were unable to locate him despite repeatedly hearing how easy he was to find (basically...you don't need to ...