After descending the mountain itself I had a day to fill in before my return to Nanjing on the midnight train so it was time to explore some of the city. Huangshan city, called Huizhou in ancient times (Song Dynasty 960-1279), lies at the southernmost end of Anhui Province with a population of 1.5 million people. For most tourists, Huangshan City is just a transit point and gateway barely noticed on the way to the mystical cloud shrouded peaks of Huangshan Mounta...

Well I know it is spring as the blossoms are budding, the weather is warming up (in most places) and the trees are starting to get their leaves.....however someone forgot to tell the weatherman this in Huangshan!!! Off I headed thinking that it would be an ideal time to see the true beauty that everyone talks about. Huangshan - one of the five great mountains of China- was about to be conquered. Started off in Tangkou, a tiny village at the base of the mountain ...