Beijing Travel Bug

Go to the Jade Screen Pavilion to view the South Sea,
the Refreshing Terrace for the North Sea,
the Paiyun Tower for the West Sea,
the White Goose Ridge for the East Sea
and the Legendary Turtle Peak for the Sky Sea.

There are a lot of poems which describes the ever immortal beauty of Huangshan (黄山). “Clouds in a myriad of forms”, “Peaks piercing the sky”, “A cool world”, “Fantastic and beautiful”, “Scenery of exceptional charm” are some phrase that describes the mountain. It is also an inspiration to some ancient famous painters of China. You can check out the description of Huangshan here. It is said that the four wonders of Huangshan are the strange pines, absurd stones, sea of clouds and hot springs. I’ve researched and found out that the best time to travel Huangshan is in winter because the place will look like winter wonderland. Unfortunately, the winter season this year is warmest ever (the locals said). So there wasn’t a lot of snow to see.

Our tour package includes a bus transfer from Shanghai to Huangshan city. We stayed for a night on the town proper and toured their city which is called Lao Jie (老街）means old street like Hutong.

The street has multitude of stores that sells different kinds of delicacies in their city and also souveneir items as well as maps of Huangshan. I also saw the cutest thing, a cat with two different eye color!

The next day, we left our luggage at the bottom hotel we stayed in and went up the mountain area. There’s a different bus to preserve and control the external variables, preserve nature. We took a cable car up to a certain location but alas, we need to walk up around 4-5 hours to reach our hotel! Our tour guide is very accomodating and patient. We kept stopping for pictures. The usual hours to get to the middle was only 3 hours but we seemed to have drag time.

We stopped at the different rock formations. There were those which looked like turtles etc. We viewed the beautiful sunset..

I was expecting the cloud below me type of scenery..but it was foggy that day. We woke up at 5am to go to the place we can better see the sunrise. It took us almost same hours to go down. It was a fulfilling experience, able to see the beauty of nature. There are 5 best mountains to go to China, and our teacher said that if you visited Huangshan, the others are incomparable to its beauty.

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