There is a Chinese Saying stated that people wont want to see any other mountains, after coming back from the visit of Huangshan. The ranges of Huangshan that lies in southern Anhui Province east of China Continent possess all strong characters of what other mountains famous for. It is always being described as grand, graceful, elegant, arduous, baffling, strange, magnificent, flourishing, mysterious, spacious and more. Huangshan is another great symbols of China, besides the Great Wall and Yangtze River. It boasts not only its magnificence but also its abundant resources and great variety of zoological species. The core area of its 154 sq meter was included into the list of UNESCO in 1990, the only place in the world as a heritage site of cultural and a world natural heritage site.
Huangshan's scenery changes with weather and season. The sights are always the subject of traditional Chinese paintings and literature as well as the focus objects for modern photographers.
It was our luck to visit Huangshan in spring and experienced such a marvelous sight of Huangshan in snow, though the sudden change of weather made us tougher and harder to move on.
The sight of the breath taking winter snowy pines at the mountain peak of Huangshan.
The snowy pines at The Brightness Summit Apex Guangming-Ding (光明顶）were awesome. These legendary pines plus the oddly shaped rocks, sea of clouds, hot spring and winter snow are the five great scenes that gained Huangshan the fame in the world.
Huangshan's meteorological observatory and Television Cable Station are located at the Brightness Summit Apex which is the highest peak of the ranges.
The height of Brightness summit Apex is 1860 meters from sea level as marked on the stone.
As per a writer's remark that say: To admire the magnificence of a a mountain, you have to look upwards in most cases, but to admire Huangshan ranges, you need to look downwards. He indeed was quoting the truth.
The Mountains of Huangshan was originally named as Yishan but in recognition of the mythological Huang-Di who was the reputed ancestor of Hans Chinese, it was renamed as Yellow Mountain Huangshan in year 747.
For centuries, Huangshan has been a place where people came to do their paintings, to illustrate, to get inspiration, to seek retreat or to meditate in its superlative natural beauty. Today it still holds the fascination for visitors, poets, writers, painters, artists and photographers.
The walking pathway from Guangming-Ding towards Baiyu Hotel was slippery and dangerous. This was the sport where one of us slipped our feet and fell off from the stairway but surprisingly and fortunately, we were not hurt.
Huangshan is a marvelous site with spectacular vita and ever changing scenery. It attracts millions of tourists and inspiring countless Chinese art painters and photographers from all over the places, local and abroad, in all seasons.
Terraces of pine trees that lean against the cliff or along the slopes or lined in the valleys.
The Chinese people are very capable of imagination in giving names to those physical features at the scenic area. In this direction from Brightness Summit Apex, the peaks are named as Flying Over Rock and Stone Figure Peak.
The majestic peaks looked out from Gaungming-Ding.
The highest point of Huangshan where the meteorological Observatory and Television Cable Station located, is known as Brightness Summit Apex. It measures 1860 meters in height.
To reach the point of Apex, we need hours to climb breathlessly on the long flight of its steep stone steps from the cable station. We just could not imagine how tough a porter lead his life. Every single day, they carried with them more than 100kg of goods by just using a long bamboo pole balancing over the shoulders or backs, and walked up thousand of steep stone steps way that had taken away our breath. Stocks and resources of hotels and restaurants on the mountain are replenished through the human services of these porters. We just hope that they receive a good returns of their hard labor from the high prices we paid.
Every one was short of breath when ascending from the cable station, climbing up thousands of stone steps in the freezing air but the tough porters who loaded on their shoulders with at least 100 kg of cargo, started walking up from the foot of the mountain. Chinese labor lead an extremely hard life.
While stop and take a breath, admire the nature marvel around.
The 60,000 stone steps carved into the side of mountain throughout the whole area dated back to 1500 years ago.
It took us hours to complete these thousands icing steep stone steps with our metal clamped shoes.
Hot Spring streams gently flow through snow covered forest creating another sight of beauty in Huangshan.
Every spot has its outstanding scene. The sight of a little frozen pond embraced by snow covered forested trees was awesome.
Building structures are nestled amidst the wooded forest and ranges.
Huangshan is the most popular tourists destination in China mainly due to its majestic beautiful ranges and magnificent scenery in all seasons. Huangshan has 77 peaks and majority are 1000 meters above sea level.
Huangshan has 77 peaks and majority are 1000 meters above sea level.
Ranges carried the names as Beginning to Believe Peak, Pen Rack Peak and 18 Arhants Worshiping Peak are all located at the rear part of Huangshan.
The peaks, the rocks and the pines offer a spectacular landscape for Huangshan.
The old Heihu Black Tiger Pine (黑虎松)that has a long history in life is as strong and tough like a tiger.
The Peak of Beginning to believe (始信峰)was named after a legend regarding a man who never believed the tales of Huangshan's beauty only after he came and witnessed by himself.
The vintage point to view the Peak of Beginning to Believe was quite scary and dangerous. Behind the rail is a deep valley and there is nothing for you to hold where standing there to capture a picture.
Splendid ranges of beginning to Believe Peak.
One of the four famous unique scene in Huangshan is the pine trees that grow out of peer rocks without any soil.
Many scenic spots and physical features on the mountain are named after the narratives behind them.
The imposing peaks at rear portion of Huangshan are attractive. Land at this part of Huangshan is formed from a kind of typical granite mountains and forests, as a result of several movements of lithosphere and work of nature during the long geological age.
Granite limestone towers and oddly shaped rocks spread all over the scenic site.
The unexpected heavy snow falls dropped the temperature to below zero when we arrived, made our journey tougher and more challenging. And of course, we were rewarded with sights of spectacular.
The snow covered ranges and valleys at the back of Huangshan viewed from Yungu cable car.
There are three cable car services at Huangshan, in which one from the north and two from the south, each from front and rear part of mountain ranges. All ways has its merits and beauty.
Cable car ride helps to save some time, some energy, compared to hiking all the way from the foot of the mountain.
Yungu Cable Car is one of the three telphers of Huangshan.
We descended from Huangshan from rear station by another cable car which offers a majestic rocky sight of the mountain ranges. Passengers are required to take Hunagshan's service bus up or down to the foot station at a fare of rmb 22.00
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