黄山 a.k.a MOUNT YELLOW part 1

On June 4, Bill, ma and me are going to meet up with Jay, Allen, Tarcy and Lloyd near the 人民广场 or People Square to take a bus to Mount Yellow.
We arrived at around 7, meet up with friends, then got up on the bus and off we go !!

It will be a 5 hours bus ride until we got off, and meet our private driver who we hired for the next 3 days, then we go to the Emerald Valley, then  to the old village near  Mount Yellow, a place called 宏村, where we're gonna spend the night at.


When we stopped at Emerald Valley, I have no idea what kind of place it is.
But soon as I walked and hiked, I knew that I LOVE that place. I felt the urge to just jump down into the water, because the water is so cleaaannn, and it has green color because of the rocks underneath. All of us, LOVE that place.


Below are some pictures from Emerald Valley :

 Salted pig face in front of the restaurant 

Emerald Valley, Mom and Bill

The couple :)

With Tarcy 

 

This is on the scene of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - Pic by Tarcy

 Show some love in the love bridge - Pic by Tarcy

They are so high up in the air !!

 Me and Xuying, resting

 Tarcy and Lloyd - Pic by Tarcy

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Some pictures from 宏村 or Hong Cun

 Getting ready to get inside the Old Village

In front of the entrance

Entrance to a house used to owned by a super rich person

This is the decoration of the house, wood carving.

During the cultural revolution, they cover this with dirt and mud, so it won't be visible and won't get destroyed. They wrote "Long live Emperor Mao" on top of the dirts.

Pork Feet, anyone ?? :D

Flowers on our hotel, very pretty !

These are how people wash their clothes in the village !

The view of the village

Moon Pond, people also wash their clothes and dishes here

Rice Field

The Village in the morning

The happy couple :D

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On the second day, we're going to Huangshan, it took us +/-1 hr to get there.

Below are some pictures :

Place to buy entrance ticket, which cost RMB 230

This guy (among a lots of other people like him), will carry the stuffs all the way up to the mountain, by WALK ! These stuffs is at least 70kg in weight, and wait till you see how steep it is to go all the way up !

We queue to get into this cable car for about 1 hr, then the cable car ride took about 5-10 mins, it was soooo HIGH ! Imagine if you are walking and carry stuffs on your shoulder like that guy did ! Cable car ride costs RMB 80 (one way)

Once we get off the cable car, surrounded by CLOUDS ! 

I told you we're so high up !

In the top of the mountain. On my backpack, I carry 2 liters of water, clothes for 1 night (mine and mom's), a little bit of snacks. Bill carried the same amount of water, some instant noodle and his own clothes.

Some view of Mount Yellow in the cloudy day

Below is me and mom at Guang Ming Ding, we have parted with Bill and the others here, and we're walking our way to the hotel. It tooks us more than 2 hours to get here, and it's only half way to the hotel. Lots of steps waiting ahead of us.