My OperaMy splendid travel
Sunday, December 24, 2006 2:01:22 PM
Like many other friends, I love travel. Though I can’t travel frequently as time and money limit, I can still pick a place to visit per year, usually in my summer holidays. And this year, my fantastic tour was in Huangshan (the Yellow Mountain) –one of the top ten scenic spots and historical sites in China. Together with my aunt, we went with a Travel Agency. We began our tour from the front mountain and the scenic sights are feast to our eyes.
The Yellow Mountain, which is situated in the south of Anhui Province, is the most beautiful mountain in china and is often referred to as “the most fantastic mountain under heaven”. It’s famous for four wonders—picturesque rocks, legendary pines, the sea of clouds and the hotspring.
Picturesque rocks are seen everywhere on the mountain, in a myriad of fantastic shapes, some looking like humans or things in real life and come like beasts and birds in animated motion. That’s really interesting!
It’s said of the Yellow Mountain that “every tree here is a pine and every pine here has a distinctively unusual shape”. The pines of the mountain in are artful for their trunks are curled, roots are intertwined, and the pine needles are thick-grown but short. My favorite one was the kind called Greeting Visitors. It extends outward two long arm-like branches, looking like a hospitable host bidding a smiling welcome to visitors from all over the world. It’s indeed a symbol of friendship, and I took lots of pictures of them.
As to the sea of clouds, the tour guide said:” since ancient times there has been a sea of clouds over Huangshan”. Among the four wonders of the Yellow Mountain, this wonder is probably the most magnificent. It occurs usually between November of each year and May of the next. As a poet described it once, “cloud and mist on nine days out of ten.” We also learned that when the slanting sun plays on the mists and clouds, it creates a rainbow-colored halo (also called Buddha’s Halo) that encircles the image of the beholder himself. Like the mirage, this is a result of light being refracted by clouds. Really fantastic, isn’t it? It’s a great pity that we miss this because we went there in August.
The hotspring of the Yellow Mountain is called the “magic spring”. The water temperature remains 42 degree centigrade all the year round, which is ideal temperature for bathing. And if you bath in it, not soap is needed and many skin diseases will be cured. After a long and weary journey, we found that bathing in the hotspring was completely restorative, refreshing and enjoying.
These are so precious memories in my life. Given more chances, I will never be tired of visiting this magnificent place—Huangshan!
The Yellow Mountain, which is situated in the south of Anhui Province, is the most beautiful mountain in china and is often referred to as “the most fantastic mountain under heaven”. It’s famous for four wonders—picturesque rocks, legendary pines, the sea of clouds and the hotspring.
Picturesque rocks are seen everywhere on the mountain, in a myriad of fantastic shapes, some looking like humans or things in real life and come like beasts and birds in animated motion. That’s really interesting!
It’s said of the Yellow Mountain that “every tree here is a pine and every pine here has a distinctively unusual shape”. The pines of the mountain in are artful for their trunks are curled, roots are intertwined, and the pine needles are thick-grown but short. My favorite one was the kind called Greeting Visitors. It extends outward two long arm-like branches, looking like a hospitable host bidding a smiling welcome to visitors from all over the world. It’s indeed a symbol of friendship, and I took lots of pictures of them.
As to the sea of clouds, the tour guide said:” since ancient times there has been a sea of clouds over Huangshan”. Among the four wonders of the Yellow Mountain, this wonder is probably the most magnificent. It occurs usually between November of each year and May of the next. As a poet described it once, “cloud and mist on nine days out of ten.” We also learned that when the slanting sun plays on the mists and clouds, it creates a rainbow-colored halo (also called Buddha’s Halo) that encircles the image of the beholder himself. Like the mirage, this is a result of light being refracted by clouds. Really fantastic, isn’t it? It’s a great pity that we miss this because we went there in August.
The hotspring of the Yellow Mountain is called the “magic spring”. The water temperature remains 42 degree centigrade all the year round, which is ideal temperature for bathing. And if you bath in it, not soap is needed and many skin diseases will be cured. After a long and weary journey, we found that bathing in the hotspring was completely restorative, refreshing and enjoying.
These are so precious memories in my life. Given more chances, I will never be tired of visiting this magnificent place—Huangshan!
AKIbeyondwhatyousee # Tuesday, December 26, 2006 3:18:28 AM