Shan Shui 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.

... 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.

... for its teas. Well informed by all sorts of travel guides, there are four most famous teas in China, and Huai-Cho produces three of them: Mao-Fong green tea, Monkey King green tea and Chi-Meng black teas. Well, you might be able to find all of them on this street. However, this street targets tourists not real tea drinkers.. :)

... scary. As I like to call it the scariest ride in the theme park. Today we saw some big monkeys like baboons, they probably were baboons. It was funny because they were swinging right above us fooling around and dropping their seeds on us. They were probably eating acorns, but for the most part they were snapping off branches or small twigs and eating leaves and dropping the branches on us. It was a really beautiful view from 'Beginning to Believe ...

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 ...

... photos when researching the China trip and it looked really picturesque. The whole village, when viewed from above, is supposed to resemble a bull. The most famous spot is in the center of the village where there exists a large reservoir of water that the village uses as its water source. This large "pond" is supposed to be the bull's stomach.  We walked through many of the ...

... to make a run for me looking very aggressive we had to move pretty quickly to avoid being attacked and surrounded by them. Fortunately a Chinese worker was coming down at the same time and tried to tell us in part broken English part body language that the monkeys become quite aggressive because other tourists give them food and they have surrounded people in the past in this way, and he walked with us the rest of the way down. We arrived back at our hostel after an interesting ...

... any long walks soon. The place suffers from mass tourism with the masses, in a huge natural area it doesn't seem possible that so many people can visit all at once. We didn't really notice but there must be more men than women visiting since the ratio is on average 125:100 with the worst provinces having something like 165 men: 100 women which really must cause an imbalance. A quick trip from here and we are visiting some more ...