Huangshan Day-by-day Tour Itinerary

Day1

Upon your arrival at the city of Huangshan (Tunxi), our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The tour in the afternoon will bring you to Yixian County, 54km away from the city of Huangshan (about 1-hour drive), where you are going to visit two ancient villages--Hongcun and Xidi. Drive back to the city of Huangshan after the visit.

- Yixian County: located to the southwest of Mt. Huangshan, with over 2000 years old history, and asmany as 3,594 well perserved old dwellings left from Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is highly praised as "Treasure of Chinese Old Dwellings Architecture".

-Hongcun: a model of the ancient villages in China with the feautures of beautiful lake, first class old dwellings, peaceful streets and lanes, and the perfect natural background, where the movie "Crouching Tigger, Hidden Dragon" was partly shot, Hongcun was first built during the Southern Song Dynasty, about 900 years ago, by the Wang Clan.

The layout of the village resembles the outline of an ox, hence it is popularly called as "Ox-shapedVillage". The early ox-shaped village came into being in Ming Dynasty when Wang Siqi, their 76th generation ancestor, hired a famous fengshui expert He Keda as their advisor, whose advice resulted in the construction of ponds and water channals flowing through nearly every household within the village so as to keep the "internal Yang (masculine) water" and assure for "eternal prosperity extending to all later generations". Due to the scientific construction, the buildings in the Hongcun are in great harmony with nature, showing the traditional Chinese philosophy that Nature and Man are one.

- Xidi: with a history of over 1000 years, Xidi is 700 meters from east to west, 300 meters south to north, 300 old dwellings in the village left from Ming and Qing Dynasties form the shape of boat. Embraced in the mountains, abundant in resources and autarkic inhabitants who are accustomed to a life of leisure, all these make Xidi famed as "the reclusive utopian land".

Day 2

After breakfast, drive 80 kilometers (1.5 hour-drive) to Huangshan Scenic Area and take the cable car at Yungu Station to the top of the mountain. After check-in and lunch, you will view Brush Pen Peak, tour Lion Peak and Xihai Grand Canyon, enjoy the sunset glow at the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion, etc. Stay overnight at the summit.

- Mt. Huangshan (Yellow Mountain): located in the southern Anhui Province, extending about 40km from north to south and 30km from east to west, the Huangshan Scenic Area is comprised of numerous peaks of various heights and grotesque rocks of different formation, and is well known for its extraordinary aesthetic mountainous features, where we can find all beauties of nature, with its charm lying especially in its oddly-shaped pines, fantastic rocks, sea of clouds and hot springs--the four supreme sights on the mountain.

The picturesque Mt.Huangshan has been a famed destination for scholars, poets and the occasional hermits in Chinese history, and has long been effusively described as "awesome," "a wonderland" and "Heaven on Earth."

Day3

Try to get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise, after breakfast, tour the Begin-to-Believe Peak to see the grotesque pinetrees, after all the exercise, take the cable car down to the foot of the Mt. Huangshan, drive back to the city of Huangshan to visit Tunxi Ancient Street and Ink Stone Factory.

- Tunxi Ancient Street: a well preserved bustling center of trade since the Southern Song Dynasty, paved with slab stone, one-mile long, the street is lined on both sides with old shops in perfect order and an unmistakable Huizhou architectural style.

- Ink Stone Factory：ink stone is the important part of "Four Treasures of the Study" in China. Because of its solid texture, the ink stone can be handed down from one generation to another. The Ink Stone Factory in Huangshan is one of the most famous ink stone factories in China, where you can see the whole working process.

Day4

The tour today will first bring you to Shexian County, 27km away from the city of Huangshan, where you will visit Tangyue Memorial Archways in TangyueVillage. After the tour, get back to the city of Huangshan and be escorted to the airport for the flight to your next destination-.

- Shexian County: located at the southern foot of Mt.Huangshan, ShexianCounty was a cultural center during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and became a commercial center during Ming and Qing Dynasties. There still remain many ancient courtyards, gardens and buildings left from Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are described as "gem of ancient Chinese architecture".

- Tangyue Memorial Archways: there are all together seven archways, three were built in Ming Dynasty, the rest in Qing Dynasty. Memorial archways are an outcome of Chinese feudal society. Each archway is related to a person or an event and has its own story. The archways represent the wisdom and artistry of ancient craftsman.

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