After an early night last night we got up early to go for a walk up Yellow Mountain which is one of the most beautiful and impressive places I’ve been to.

We got to the bottom of the mountain about 9am and we got a ticket very easy, it looked busy but we walked straight into get the cable car to the first station about a third of maybe even a quarter of the way up the mountain and then we had to figure out where to go. The cable car ride was great and took about 15 mins and you immediately get a sense of what the mountain has to offer. The autumnal colours against the sheer granite cliffs with pine-trees hanging off them perfectly perpendicular.

We headed up and had our first encounter with the crowds, which is the only real downside of coming here. At times you are just stuck in a people jam and you can’t go forwards or backwards. This happened at one narrow point when we were just about to leave a rest area, the problem was being caused by two porters carrying about ten suitcases up the hill.

The finally stopped absolutely exhausted and no wonder. All over the mountain you can get your very own sedan chair ride and I think it was around 100rmb for two hours, I was nearly tempted on our way back.

We were heading for the “Fairy Bridge” which is a small bridge connecting the path over a gorge. It’s quite a walk to get there and it took us nearly three hours to return from that point and we were all very happy when we got back down to the cable car station.

Along the way we were up and down dale walking through beautiful scenery that would often disappear due to the low cloud coming up the sheer cliffs and obscuring the view. This place is magical and you can see where many of the Chinese artists got their inspiration from after visiting.

We made it back home in one piece feeling weary but satisfied with ourselves that we had climbed so much far up and down the mountain, it was a great day and you know many of the people on the mountain were old Chinese, older than us and some even had gammy legs but they still make the effort.