What are the tips for a 3-day trip to Huangshan Mountain and Hongcun Xidi Ancient Village?

The ancient villages around Mount Huangshan are considered utopias in ancient China. This relaxing 3-day natural tour allows you to take a relaxing walk or bike ride through an ancient village, stay a night in the mountains, admire the sought-after Huangshan scenery, and indulge in hot springs to relax.

Stay overnight at the Zhulan Bar and Inn in Bishan Village and see how artists transform a village into a rural utopia. Admire the over 800-year-old ink painting-like village. Spend the night at Huangshan Mountain and enjoy mountain view rooms from the mountain. On the first day of arriving in Huangshan, you can relax and feel refreshed in the best position to watch the sunset and sunrise in the Huangshan hot springs. Visit Hongcun Xidi, which is known as an ink painting.

It is best to book a private tour guide on a well-known domestic tourism website before you go to Huangshan. He or she will improve your travel efficiency and obtain a better travel experience. You can choose bus, flight or train (high-speed rail) to Huangshan City. No matter which mode of transportation you choose to get to Huangshan, your private tour guide and driver will greet you at the airport, bus station or train station holding a sign with your name on it.

After lunch, your private tour guide will take you to visit Hongcun Xidi, a national AAAAA tourist attraction, a charming ancient village with more than 800 years of history. The villages will show you the original Huizhou residential buildings. These village groups are known as "villages in paintings". The travel time is about 2.5-3 hours.

Then head to Bishan, a rural utopia. Unlike other nearby villages, Bishan's architecture is combined with modern and artistic concepts. This will be a 2-hour walking (or cycling) tour of the village, through a series of visits to a series of old buildings that have been transformed by creative artists.

Accommodation options: Dinner and overnight at the Pig Pen Bar and Inn in Bishan Village.

Tour Huangshan on the second day

After breakfast at the Zhulan Bar Inn in Bishan Village, your private tour guide will take you to Huangshan for a tour. You will spend a day and night on Huangshan. Your appreciation of the beautiful Huangshan Mountain begins with the Yungu Cable Car, which takes about 10 minutes (including round-trip cable car rides). Your private guide, who spends 200 days a year in the mountains and is very experienced, will customize your tour itinerary as follows:

For energetic hikers in good shape: get off the cable car and walk It takes about 30 minutes to walk up a stone staircase to reach the hotel. Along the way, you can see black tiger pine and umbrella pine. After enjoying buffet lunch at the hotel, proceed to visit the West Sea Grand Canyon. The entire hike lasts just over three hours and covers the first and second loops and the canyon floor. If time and physical strength permit, you can visit Feilaishi and watch the sunset at Guangmingding. It takes about 40 minutes to get back to the hotel from Guangmingding.

For children and the elderly: get off the cable car and walk for about 30 minutes to the hotel. You can see the black tiger pine and dream flower pine on the way. After enjoying the buffet lunch, walk to the West Sea Grand Canyon. You can decide how long you want to walk based on your physical strength: it takes about two hours to reach the first loop and back, and about three hours to reach the second loop and back. Then enjoy the sunset at Paiyun Pavilion and return to the hotel in about 30 minutes.

Travel Tips From Paiyun Pavilion to the Xihai Grand Canyon, the road is all downhill, and some sections are narrow and steep. Therefore, hiking in the West Sea Grand Canyon is a huge challenge, especially for your knees.

On the third day, soak in Huangshan Hot Spring and return

You need to get up early to see the sunrise. Your personal guide will tell you when and where to go, as well as provide local insider tips. After watching the sunrise, return to your hotel for breakfast.

Then, you will continue to enjoy more wonders of Huangshan: Lion Peak, Dawn Pavilion, Stone Monkey Viewing the Sea and various strange pines along the way. It is worth reminding that never climb the strange pines on the roadside or on the cliff. After enjoying a buffet lunch on the mountain, you will walk to Yungu Cable Car Station to take the cable car down the mountain.

Huangshan Hot Spring is located at the foot of Mount Huangshan and is home to a variety of hot spring pools with different scents and healing properties: rose, lavender, jasmine, coffee, and more.

It's a great place to recuperate after a hike in the mountains.

Two hours before boarding, your private driver and tour guide will take you to the airport. They will take you to check-in and say goodbye at the security gate. Travel Tips: In Huangshan Hot Spring, you will be provided with towels, shower gel, shampoo, hair dryer, brushes, triggers, slippers and lockers. All you need to bring is your swimsuit.