Day 1 Arrive / Huangshan
Transfer via: by air-own arrangement
Upon arrival at the airport,pickup by our English speaking tour guide and drive to hotel
Day 2(B,L) Huangshan
Drive for one and half hours to reach the Mercy Light Pavilion of Mt. Huangshan the start point for hiking from the western steps. It will take you about 4 hours to reach the Jade Screen Pavilion, just half way of the whole trip for today. After lunch, hike for another 3 and half hours before getting to the hotel. While hiking, enjoy dazzling beautiful views of the most famous mountain in China. For the sake of safety, however, keep this saying in your mind: Don't walk if you want to enjoy views, and don't get distracted by views while walking.
Day 3(B,L) Huangshan
Watch the sunrise in the morning. After the breakfast, trek down from the Refreshing Terrace, a footpath in the mountain but rarely visited by tourists. Then take the same way back to the hotel. It takes about 5 hours to do the trekking.
Day 4 (B,L) Huangshan
Visit Hongcun Village and Xidi Village. Transfer to airport for your flight to next destination.
HongcunVillage: An ancient town over 800 years old leaning against Mt.Huangshan, it is folded in the fog of the Mt. which makes it look like a river and mountain picts. It enjoys the reputation of "The Chinese town in the pictures". Especially, the whole town distributes like a "cow", which made it one of the wonders in the world culture heritage. The famous film "Crouching Tiger" was made here.
Xidi Village: There are 600 grand family mansions, earning it the moniker Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) ResidenceMuseum. Xidi has two main streets with 99 alleys running out of them. During its heyday 90 drinking wells served the needs of its 10,000 villagers. Enclosed within the unified white-washed Horse Head Wall -- a southern China architectural style where the walls descend staircase style, following the angle of the roof -- all houses in the village are built of wooden beams, stone and brick carved in the engraving style of the Anhui School of Architecture.
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