When in China, be sure to visit beautiful Huangshan! The landscapes are breathtaking and really a photographers dream. An image of a twisting pine tree growing from a curiously-curved rock pops into Chinese minds when they hear of the Yellow Mountains. These mystical and mist-ical mountains are the most beautiful and most famous in China. Their classic attractions are grand dawns and their “four natural wonders”: peculiar pines, oddly-shaped rocks, seas of clouds and hot springs. The Huangshan mountain range has many peaks, some more than 1,000 meters high. The three tallest and best-known peaks are Lotus Peak (1,864 m), Bright Summit Peak (1,840 m) and Celestial Peak (1,829 m). The World Heritage Site covers a core area of 154 square kilometres and a buffer zone of 142 square kilometres. The mountains were formed in the Mesozoic, about 100 million years ago, when an ancient sea disappeared due to uplift. Later, in the Quaternary Period, the landscape was shaped by the influence of glaciers. About 300 km west of Hangzhou and 500 km southwest of Shanghai, direct flights from Shanghai to Huangshan city take only 30 minutes, then its about 1½ hours by road to reach this scenic area. A bus from Hangzhou to the Yellow Mountains takes 2½ hours.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:18:58 +0000