China’s Misty Mountains

The day before, having walked up and then accidentally halfway down and then back up the mountain, I fell into an exhausted and not entirely happy sleep in an overpriced dorm room.

Waking up on the day of the video, then, I found Huangshan covered in snow and ice and looking marvelous for it. After that stopped, a sea of clouds hung just under our elevation the rest of the day to make things look even nicer.

The kid in the video at the beginning is a college student from Shenzhen who I ran into in my dorm the night before. After leaving China’s Misty Mountains here in Anhui, I never saw him again!

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I stayed in Tangkou district far away from the mountain itself, but the price was significantly cheaper from staying on the mountain. I liked the Koala Hostel  because it was close enough to Tangkou to explore but far enough away that it wasn’t actually part of the disney-fied old town. There are severalother options in the area as well, both in Tangkou and closer to Huangshan.

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