Fantastical mountainscapes and well preserved villages make Anhui the perfect contrast to China’s larger cities. The main attraction in Anhui is the Huangshan (Yellow) Mountains. The mountains are immense granite cliffs with fast-traveling clouds formed from the water vapor coming from the leaves of the forest trees. This mountain was the inspiration of an entire school of ink painting during the 17th and 18th centuries.
This is an image taken on the mountain of a pine tree against the fog. Most likely you have seen the same type of Chinese artwork.
The Yellow Mountains are not called this because the mountains are yellow, but because the area was renamed after the legendary Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) in 747 AD. After that Huangshan saw many Buddhist temples built there and recentl, it has become a major tourist attraction and UNESCO site.
The day started out colder than it was to be and lots of low clouds which made visibility much less. We took a scenic ride up the Yuping Cable Car then took a path away from the crowds heading towards the West Sea Grand Canyon area. It is a mountain so many stairs up and down.
We brought our own meals in self heating containers. I hated all the plastic to throw away but so many crowds makes it difficult to get food.
I did finally spot some cool birds and managed to snap a couple pictures.
At a coffee shop at the top of one of the parks they had cute little desserts.
This is what we should have seen today :
Hopefully tomorrow is better weather. 25% of the time it is perfect weather. The rest of the time it is not!