UNESCO World Heritage SiteNational 5A Scenic AreaEast China
Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain)
黄山风景区 · Anhui, Huangshan
A surreal granite mountain range of jagged peaks, twisted pines and a famous 'sea of clouds'.
Mount Huangshan is celebrated for its otherworldly granite peaks rising above a sea of clouds, ancient pine trees clinging to rock, and dramatic hot springs. Hikers climb stone staircases between summits and often stay overnight to catch the sunrise from a peak, when the valleys fill with billowing mist.
Long a magnet for poets and painters, Huangshan was renamed in 747 AD in honour of the Yellow Emperor legend. Its landscapes became the archetype of Chinese shan-shui mountain painting. It was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 (cultural and natural) and a Global Geopark.
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