Itinerary

Day 1  Arrive  /  Tunxi (city of Huangshan )
Upon your arrival at city of Huangshan (Tunxi), our local guide will meet you and escort you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at your own leisure.

Day 2  Tunxi / Huangshan Scenic Area
After breakfast, drive 80 kilometers (1.5 hour-drive) to Huangshan Scenic Area and take cable car at Yungu Station to the top of the mountain. After check-in and lunch, you will view Brush Pen Peak, tour Lion Peak and Xihai Grand Canyon, enjoy the sunset glow at the Cloud Dispelling Pavilion, etc. Stay overnight at the summit.

Day 3  Huangshan Scenic Area / Tunxi (city of Huangshan )  /  Depart
Try to get up early in the morning to catch the magical sunrise, after breakfast, tour the Begin-to-Believe Peak to see the grotesque pinetrees, after all the exercise, take the cable car down to the foot of the Mt. Huangshan, drive back to the city of Huangshan to visit Tunxi Ancient Street and Ink Stone Factory before your transfer to the airport for the flight to your next destination.

Tunxi Ancient Street: a well preserved bustling center of trade since the Southern Song Dynasty, paved with slab stone, one-mile long, the street is lined on both sides with old shops in perfect order and an unmistakable Huizhou architectural style.

Ink Stone Factory: ink stone is the important part of "Four Treasures of the Study" in China. Because of its solid texture, the ink stone can be handed down from one generation to another. The Ink Stone Factory in Huangshan is one of the most famous ink stone factories in China, where you can see the whole working process.

Note: The above itinerary is for those who do not ask for strenuous activity, we have an alternative itinerary which is strenous.

Please contact us for the price of this tour.

If the above program is too short, here are several add-on tours:

A day tour to visit two ancient villages - Hongcun and Xidi

The tour will bring you to Yixian County, 54km away from the city of Huangshan (about 1-hour drive), where you are going to visit two ancient villages - Hongcun and Xidi. Drive back to the city of Huangshan after the visit.

Yixian County: located to the southwest of Mt. Huangshan, with over 2000 years old history, and as many as 3,594 well preserved old dwellings left from Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is highly praised as "Treasure of Chinese Old Dwellings Architecture".

Hongcun: a model of the ancient villages in China with the features of beautiful lake, first class old dwellings, peaceful streets and lanes, and the perfect natural background, where the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was partly shot, Hongcun was first built during the Southern Song Dynasty, about 900 years ago, by the Wang Clan.
The layout of the village resembles the outline of an ox, hence it is popularly called as "Ox-shaped Village". The early ox-shaped village came into being in Ming Dynasty when Wang Siqi, their 76th generation ancestor, hired a famous fengshui expert He Keda as their advisor, whose advice resulted in the construction of ponds and water channels flowing through nearly every household within the village so as to keep the "internal Yang (masculine) water" and assure for "eternal prosperity extending to all later generations". Due to the scientific construction, the buildings in the Hongcun are in great harmony with nature, showing the traditional Chinese philosophy that Nature and Man are one.

Xidi: with a history of over 1000 years, Xidi is 700 meters from east to west, 300 meters south to north, 300 old dwellings in the village left from Ming and Qing Dynasties form the shape of boat. Embraced in the mountains, abundant in resources and autarkic inhabitants who are accustomed to a life of leisure, all these make Xidi famed as "the reclusive utopian land".

A day tour to cruise beautiful Xin'an River and visit Tangyue Memorial Archways

After breakfast, drive 70 kilometers (1 hour and 10-minute drive) to Shendu Pier and take the boat to cruise beautiful Xin'an River, and then you will visit Tangyue Memorial Archways in Shexian County. Drive back to the city of Huangshan after the tour.

Xin'an River: 159km long, running between mountains and deep valleys through the Huangshan area, with numerous flowing streams and waterfalls, Xin'an River has been renowned for its beauty and appraised as the "Gallery over the water". Along the river by boat, you will see old villages, ferries, pagodas and bridges with Hui Style unfolding picturesque scenery in front of you. 

Shexian County: located at the southern foot of Mt. Huangshan, Shexian County was a cultural center during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and became a commercial center during Ming and Qing Dynasties. There still remain many ancient courtyards, gardens and buildings left from Ming and Qing Dynasties, which are described as "gem of ancient Chinese architecture".

Tangyue Memorial Archways: there are all together seven archways, three were built in Ming Dynasty, the rest in Qing Dynasty. Memorial archways are an outcome of Chinese feudal society. Each archway is related to a person or an event and has its own story. The archways represent the wisdom and artistry of ancient craftsman.