Huangshan Travel Guide


  • Tour Huangshan in Autumn

    Autumn in Huangshan Mountain is colorful due to the blue sky, white clouds, red maples and yellow fruits. At this time of the year the scenery can be compared with that of spring but with a mature beauty. If spring is like a bud ready to bloom, autumn is a flower showing its last significance before withering. Such is the beauty of the ...

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  • Tour Huangshan in Winter

    Snowy Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain) is like a crystal wonderland. Though winter lasts a long time (Nov. - Mar.) in the mountain, it is not as cold as you might expect. A poem has it that Mount Huangshan is beautiful all year round but with the winter scenery being the best. The sea of clouds, one of the four wonders of Mount Huangsh ...

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  • Cable Cars in Mount Huangshan

    Mount Huangshan has 4 different cableways in operation. They are Yungu Cableway, Yuping Cableway, Taiping Cableway and Grand Canyon Cableway. Yungu Cableway Yungu Cableway ride from the Cloud Valley Temple to White Goose Mountain , also called Cableway 1. It is 2,804 meters in total length and its height difference is 772.8 me ...

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  • Paths in Mount Huangshan

    There are more than 30 touring paths in total in Huangshan Mountain, which are 50 km in total length and 1-2 meters wide generally. The trails in the mountains are stone paved roads, some of them are paved with granite slabs while some are excavated through mountain stones. The steps have quite level and corse surface and even equi ...

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  • History of Mount Huangshan

    Mount Huangshan was formed approximately 100 million years ago and gained its unique rock formations in the Quaternary Glaciation.During the Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 207 BC), Mt. Huangshan was known as Yishan (Mount Yi). In 747 AD, its name was changed to Huangshan (Mount Huang) by imperial decree; the name is commonly thought to have ...

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  • Huangshan Cuisine & Dishes

    Huangshan is a city of Anhui Province and hence its cuisine belongs to the stlye of Anhui. The Anhui style cuisine is usually known as Hui Cuisine, which is one of the Eight Major Cuisines of China. It features an elaborate choice of ingredients and incorporates many different cooking styles. Special attention is paid to the taste, colo ...

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  • Taxi in Huangshan

    The easiest means of getting around Huangshan City is by taking one of the taxi cabs. The drivers are always happy to give advice to visitors. Visitors do not need to worry about not being able to get back to their hotels, because every hotel will offer its guests a business card written in Chinese and English that will instruct taxi dr ...

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  • Sea of Clouds in Mount Huangshan

    The sea of clouds is known as one of the four wonders in Mount Huangshan. It is so spectacular and changeable that Mount Huangshan got another name "the Yellow Sea". In Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), a famous historian named Pan Zhi Heng who lived in Mount Huangshan for decades. He wrote a book about Mount Huangshan, called " ...

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