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Huangshan Overview
About Mountain Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)
The famous scrolls of Chinese black and white paintings of high mountains, rocks, trees and sea of clouds come alive in Huangshan Mountains in the south Anhui province. It is a marvelous mountain area, now on the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. There is an old saying well known throughout the country "No need to see any other mountains after Huangshan!"
Huangshan has spectacular landscape with its four unique scenes: interesting shaped rocks, waterfalls, unique shaped pine trees growing out of rocks, and its sea of clouds. Huangshan has all, the steepness, the grace, the elegance, and so on. Huang Shan Mountain area is such a marvelous place with spectacular vista and its ever-changing scenes attract tourists in all seasons and inspire countless Chinese painters and poets for thousands of years.
Touring in Huangshan area, you can also visit some small villages nearby where the unique local traditional Hui style houses are relatively well preserved. Among them, Xidi and Hongcun are inscribed as the World Cultural Heritage sites by UNESCO.
Huangshan Attractions Total: 10
North Sea Scenic Zone
Famous Pine Tree in Huangshan Mountain
North Sea Scenic zone is the hub of Mt. Huangshan, where assembles most of the wonders and sceneries of Mt. Huangshan.
Jade Screen Scenic Zone
Winter is the best season to enjoy the sea of clouds
There is a Jade Screen Pavilion perches high in the clouds, which reputed as the “imperial palace in heaven” in this scenic zone. And the three famous main peaks are all near here.
Hongcun
A great fame for her water-supplying system
Hongcun is a model of the ancient villages in China with the first class old dwellings, peaceful streets and lanes, and the perfect natural background, where the movie "Crouching Tigger, Hidden Dragon" was partly shot.
Xidi
Primitive simplicity, elegance and beautiful
With a history of over 1000 years, Xidi has 300 old dwellings left from Ming and Qing Dynasties. 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".
Recommended Multi-destination China Tours including Huangshan, Hongcun, Xidi
COT-S-008 9 nights & 10 days - East China Water and Garden Tour with Mt. Huangshan
COT-S-009-B 8 nights & 9 days - Mt. Huangshan and Chinese Garden Tour (Route A)
COT-B-014-B 13 nights & 14 days - China Classic Tour with Mt. Huangshan Trekking
3 to 5 Days Huangshan Tour Programs
4 Days Huangshan Winter Tour
Rolling Travel News of Mt. Huang
* Huangshan: Lotus Peak closed down for ecosystem protection
