Huangshan - Yellow Mountain

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June 6th 2009

Published: July 8th 2009

At the main entrance, we had to pay an entrance fee of 115Y (student discount) while Cherry and Se Young also had to pay 80Y more for a cable car ticket. They didn't like the idea of hiking all the way up the western (front) path with their back packs. The other two girls Se Won and Helen decided to take the cable car after 5 minutes of hiking up stairs. Joey led us for a while at a decent pace, e... Read Full Entry

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I am a third year at Georgia Tech studying Chemical Engineering who loves his music, good food, bboyin', meeting random people, exercising, and chillin' with family and friends. The GT Study Abroad Program in Shanghai is the trip that actually got me to start this blog. Right now, I'm back at Tech for summer semester but I just finished visiting my brother in Boston and will be posting my updates from that soon! Peace.... full info

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Interesting diagonal rock structure

Steep path in the background leading up to Jade Screen

Cliffside path leading down Celestial Peak

Narrow Cliff Path

Leading away from Celestial Peak. All the Chinese tourists we passed looked terribly frightened and made quite entertaining noises, haha. Traffic was a bit of a problem

LooOONG and STeEP Stairway Leading to Jade Screen

One of the more recognizable images of Huangshan....can't even see the whole stairway here, ha

Path down from Celestial Peak

I ran down with much vigor, allowing gravity to do the work to snap a few pics of my group (usually behind me anyways)

Ever hang-dry your clothes on a holy mountain before!?

Three Islands at Penglai

Fairies live here

Sherpa's Calf

Sherpa's carry up to 130 lbs. of stuff to the hotels/hostels on the mountain. Max of 2 trips in a day. When he was walking his calf was HUGE!

Jade Screen Pavilion

Welcoming Pine in the background. There were way too many tourists in this area (only 1 hour from the cable car)! We didn't even contemplate trying to fight through the pushy and sweaty mass just for a picture. We came to Huangshan for nature large-scale human interaction!