Huangshan (Aug. 31 - Sep. 2)

One of the spots that are still on my must-see list is Huangshan, the Yellow Mountains. As always, the night train, category "hard sleep" embodied the best price-performance ratio for us poor VW-interns. Having arrived, I was confronted with the most spectacular mountain range I have ever seen so far. The tall, slim peaks sticking out of the thick fog made me feel as if wandering through a mystery land passing the fairy tail bridge, ape mountain, lotus peak, grand canyon...whereas we mastered 600 meters downhill into the valleys and up the next peak on the other side. The crew got pretty tired of all the million stairs. I was strongly reminded on Huashan which made me stair-sick for the following months;) If I had to draw a comparison between Huangshan and Huashan (see January 2007), I would say that the scenery is more impressive at Huangshan while the climbing at Huashan trained us for the Iron Man.