Visiting Yellow Mountain in China
Yellow Mountain is China's most well known and visited mountain. It is also known as Mount Huangshan and is located in southern part of Anhui Province. Yellow Mountain has been named a World Natural and Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO and is renowned for its beauty.
Yellow Mountain is not just one peak, rather it is a crowd of peaks, 72 in fact. Celestial Capital, Lotus, and Brightness Apex are the three major peaks, all rising above 1,800 meters. At Yellow Mountain there are marvels almost everywhere you look, especially in scenic areas such as Wenquan (Hot Spring), Yupinglou (Jade Screen Tower), Xihai (West Sea), Beihai (North Sea), Yungusi (Cloud Valley Temple) and Songgu'an (Pine Valley Nunnery).
The diversity is mind boggling. Here you will find century-old pines, firs, ginkgoes, Chinese torreyas, Chinese sweet gums, nanmus, camphor woods and the precious Magua trees, remnants of the glacial era. The area abounds in magnificent flowering rare plants such as the Spring Heralding Flower, Goddess Flower, the Yellow Mountains Azalea as well as camellia, plum, lily, crape myrtleand orchid.
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