Private Huangshan Day Tour with Qiyun Mountain and Hui Culture Experience
This off-the-beaten-track Huangshan tour will take you to enjoy awesome mountain scenery and appreciate glorious history of Huizhou and Taoism culture and compass culture. Although Qiyun Mountain is not famous as Huangshan Mountain, its natural scenery and cultural significance are no less impressive than Huangshan Mountain. In addition to the mountain, we also arrange Wanan Compass Culture Museum and Huizhou Culture Museum. Have you gotten itchy feet to explore the vast and varied China? Huangshan definitely deserves to be included in your wish list, and this tour will give you a memorable experience.
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What's included in Private Huangshan Day Tour with Qiyun Mountain and Hui Culture Experience
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Qiyun Mountain
Your guide and driver will pick you up at about 8:00 am from your Huangshan downtown hotel and drive about 1 hour to Qiyun Mountain, one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Taoism. Its name Qiyun means “as high as the clouds” in Chinese although its highest peak is 585 meters. If you ever have chance to see the mountain shrouded in the sea of clouds, you wouldn’t say it doesn’t live up to its name. Upon arrival, we will take cable car up the mountain and start exploration. There is a Yuehua Street, also called “Heavenly Street”, sitting on the cliff. 30 households live here, and they are Taoists and their families. You will see white-walled and dark-tiled typical Hui-style houses mixed with Taoist architecture, which is a very unique and harmonious scene. It’s also a good place to enjoy Chinese calligraphy art. Many scholars, officials and artists left their writings on the cliffs from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China. There are 537 pieces of steles scattered on the mountain including 305 cliff carvings. If you visit the mountain in November, you can see red leaves all over the mountain, and in April, you will have chance to see a large expanse of rapeseed flowers on the banks of the Hengjiang River at the foot of the mountain.
Huangshan Wanan Ancient Town
After descending from the mountain by cable car, we will have a lunch and then visit Wanan Compass Culture Museum and Huizhou Culture Museum. Wanan Compass Culture Museum was established by Wu Zhaoguang (an art master of Anhui Province and intangible cultural heritage inheritor) on the basis of his family’s two-century-old workshop. He is the eighth generation descendant of Wu Luheng Old Compass Shop. In ancient times, compass was mainly used for observing celestial bodies, checking feng shui, and giving ships directions. Compass requires high precisions, especially for navigation, because if there’s slight error in the needle, tragedy may happen. Your guide will show you around and see the process of making compass.
China Huizhou Culture Museum
Huizhou Culture Museum is the second largest comprehensive museum in Anhui Province and also the only museum focusing on Huizhou culture. The museum was designed combining Huizhou culture, geographical landscape and Huizhou architectural style. There are 100,000 pieces of cultural relics including porcelains, ink stones, ink sticks, paintings, bronze wares, jades, ancient books and documents. At the end of the tour, your guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel.
Inclusions
- Chinese style lunch
- Cable cars up and down Qiyun Mountain
- Professional English-speaking tour guide
- Admission tickets (main gate) for all attractions listed in the itinerary
- One bottle of mineral water per person
- Fuels, tolls and parking charges
- Comfortable transfers in air-conditioned vehicles with experienced driver
- Personal expense and optional activity
- Tips to the tour guide and driver
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- You will receive a confirm email from local operator about the tour details within 48 hours after booking.
- Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
- Please leave a note when booking if you have any special requirement about the tour, such as diet.
- You will be contacted at least one day ahead of the travel day via email to advise the pickup info. The tour guide will also call you or leave you a message through your hotel room the night before tour about pickup time.
- You are suggested to wear comfortable shoes on tour day.
- Not recommended for travelers with leg problems
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Pickup and Dropoff
You can choose to be picked up from a list of locations, or alternatively, have the choice to make your own way to the meeting points
Please arrive at the pick up point 20 minutes before departure time.
