Our trip to Yellow Mountains

I'm doing this a little backwards since I already posted Christmas Day in Malaysia so be sure to visit our Merry Christmas post as well. I wanted to share these photos of the Yellow Mountains in the Anhui Province near Huangshan about 4 1/2 hours from Shanghai. This now ranks on my top three most beautiful mountains in the world that I have seen (Sawtooths and Banff are the others). We left on Saturday morning on 12/20 and returned late 12/22. There are so many great photos I had a really hard time choosing because the memories are so plentiful. I'll try to give a brief description for your amusement!

Our hotel in Huangshan had a really cool temple and we used long exposure to capture this photo. It's one of my favorites with the reflection in the water.



Boys on horses at the Huashan Cave Park.

The bridge to cross to the caves.

Big bridge, eh?

Zhang in snow. Peace or victory? All the Chinese do this in photos. I think Eric is turning Chinese....

Yup, snow on palm trees!

Eric and his snowman at the base of the Yellow Mountains just before we got on the gondola.

Check out the teeth of these icicles as we rode up the lift.

Looking back

See the walking path?

Now we're walking on the path. I can't imagine being one of the workers building these stone paths.

At the top! Beautiful!

A local village Xi Di. It's over 1000 years old.

This footbridge is made out of wood and 55 gallon drums.

Humm.... I wonder what Odis's boss would say?