4 Days Huangshan Hongcun Winter Vacation with Hot Spring
Tunxi - Huangshan - Hot Spring - Hongcun
Tunxi - Huangshan - Hot Spring - Hongcun
The Hot Spring Area of Huangshan is currently closed for maintainance. Please adjust your itinerary accordingly. We will update once it reopens.
The winter days of Huangshan Mountain are actually very beautiful as one of the best time for photography. You can still see the pleasant shapes of the peaks, pine trees, gorges clearly even when the snows are strong. The chances to see the Clouds Sea are also much bigger than other seasons. Besides, there are usually not as many tourists and groups as in other seasons. You can also enjoy better rates of hotels and other tour services if you travel to Huangshan in winter days.
It’s strongly recommended to enjoy a comfortable Hot Spring after Huangshan mountain walking trip. The Hot Springs of Huangshan with nationwide fame has been in use as a resort and health spa for over a thousand years. After that, you will also have an interesting visit to Hongcun Village which is regarded as the most beautiful ancient Chinese village in China.
Day 1 Huangshan Arrival
Airport or railway station pick up and check in hotel
Welcome to Huangshan! Upon arrival, be greeted by our local tour guide who is holding a sign with your name in the Arrival Hall of Huangshan Tunxi Airport or Huangshan North Railway Station. Then a comfortable vehicle (non-smoking) with an experienced driver will transfer you directly to your hotel in Huangshan downtown. Your guide will help you check in. The rest of the day is on your own to discover this beautiful city.
Arrival ideas: Currently, there are non-stop flights to Huangshan from Beijing, Guangzhou, Xian and Chengdu, etc., usually 2 daily flights from each city. You can also take high speed trains from Shanghai (2.5~3.5hrs), Hangzhou (1.5~2hrs), Beijing (5.5~7hrs), and Guangzhou (7hrs), etc.
Huangshan City
Day 2 Mt. Huangshan (B)
Route: Yungu Cable Way - Begin-to-believe Peak - Dispelling Cloud Pavilion - Flying-over Rock - Bright Summit
Today after breakfast, our guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel, then drive about 80 kilometers (1.5 hours) to the foot of Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), the UNESCO World Heritage Sites and one of the most beautiful mountains in China. Your memorable Huangshan trip starts!
To save energy and time, you will directly transfer by park bus from the mountain foot to Yungu Temple to take a cableway to upper beautiful sightseeing area of Huangshan Mountain – North Sea Scenic Area which is famous for marvelous precipitous peaks, beautiful giant pine trees and far-reaching vision. Walk to lofty Begin-to-Believe Peak (1668m) to stretch your eyesight over cloud seas to far distance, and then hike about 40 minutes to Dispelling Cloud Pavilion to look down the Dreamland - West Sea Grand Canyon (closed from December to the late March). Next, walk about 45~60mins to get to the famous Flying-over Rock first. It's very interesting to see how a 12 meters high giant rock standing still on a flat but small stage of stone for millions of years. Keep walking about 45~60mins from Flying-over Rock, you will get to the Bright Top (1860m), the second highest peak on the mountain as well as the central location of the mountain. Walk around for sightseeing and photography for a while.
Lastly, descend from the Bright Top for about 45mins to your hotel. Have a good rest!
Day 3 Mt. Huangshan - Hot Spring (B)
Route: Lion Peak - Yungu Cable Way - Hot Spring Scenic Area
Get up early (usually around 5am to 6am) to enjoy the magnificent sunrise from Huangshan. We suggest you watch the sunrise from the Refreshing Terrance which is only a few minutes’ walking from Beihai Hotel. In good-weather days, you can see clearly the golden light of the sun piercing the mists, and rocky peaks rising above the frothy, ever-changing sea of white clouds. After the sunrise, get back to your hotel for breakfast.
Continue on your wonderful sightseeing on the Yellow Mountain to see the famous Dawn Pavilion, Stone Monkey Watching the Sea on the Lion Peak (1690m). Then walk along the wood path to the cable station to take a cable car to exit the mountain. Your driver is ready at the mountain foot to transfer you to Huangshan Hot Spring Scenic Area. The rest of today is free for you to explore the surrounding and enjoy a Hot Spring.
To enjoy a hot spring is the best way to recover from the tiredness after a mountain walking trip. The Hot Springs of Huangshan with nationwide fame has been in use as a resort and health spa for over a thousand years. Nestled in the mountains, there are over 15 pools with various scents and functions. The Hot Spring area itself also provides resort-like hotels to enjoy a comfortable stay after sightseeing and Hot Spring enjoyment.
The Hot Spring Area of Huangshan is currently closed for maintainance. Please adjust your itinerary accordingly. We will update once it reopens.
Day 4 Hongcun - Departure (B)
Route: Huangshan - Hongcun - Airport or Train Station
Wake up in the peaceful morning at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. After breakfast, drive about 1 hour to visit Hongcun Village, the best examples of ancient Huizhou-style architecture, which is listed in UNESCO World Heritage Sites with Xidi Village.
Hongcun was originally established during Song Dynasty (960-1276). It is praised as the most beautiful village in China, known as the "ancient village in the Chinese painting". As the home to the local successful officials or merchants, Hongcun Village's layout was designed very well, acting up to both China's Geomantic Omen and actual natural environment. All houses, halls and yards are very exquisite and grandiose, and retain most of the original features. Moon Lake, the crescent-like pond surrounded by several grand dwellings, and Southern Lake in front of the village are the best locations to take photos. Famous Oscar-winner film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was filmed in Hongcun.
After the sightseeing, it’s time for departure. Your tour guide and driver will escort you to catch your flight/train to the next destination. Our service ends.
1. This price is for one person, based on a group of 2 adults sharing one standard double-bed room in a 4-star hotel and traveling with our private tour in low seasons.
2. This price is subject to change according to your traveling season, group size, hotel class, change of activities in your itinerary and possible fluctuation of currency exchange rate. If you want a lower price, you can get more people to join you, or use economy class hotels.
3. This price is only valid to March 31, 2026.
4. Reference exchange rate of USD 1=RMB 7.00. The final quote is based on current exchange rate. It may change according to the currency fluctuation, while the RMB quotation will be remained the same.
Hello Juliet,
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Thank you very much!
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Hi Rita,
Please kindly see the feedback below.
We are a family of 7. This private tour package definitely met our expectations! Both tour guides (Chengdu- MAY & Chongqing-DAVID) provided us a very good service, both friendly and very flexible despite the change in our tour schedules. They were also very responsible and ensured our safety, meals and transports were well taken care of, especially since we have elderly and kids in our group. Both tour guides are very fluent in English too so it is very convenient for some of the non-chinese speakers in our group.
We will look for the same tour agent again in our next trip to China!
Best Regards,
Victoria
Hi Shirley,
Thanks for the tour, and the itinerary that you planned for us was very comprehensive and detailed. We enjoyed it very much. The tour guide was also very friendly and experienced. He followed your itinerary closely and brought us to all the sites and explained in detail. He also recommended and brought us to enjoy some of the local cuisines during lunch.
Overall, we are impressed by the excellent service, reliability and quality that yourself, the tour guide and the driver has provided us. We would like to visit China again and we will not hesitate to engage your services again. Thank you!
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Hi Shirley,
I'm writing to provide some feedback on our recent Xian and Beijing trip that you put together for us.
We travel a lot, in the past year to Japan, New Zealand, China, Turkey, Africa, China, and finally this Xian/Beijing trip. I bring this up to highlight that we deal with a lot of travel professionals. You are easily the best travel professional we have dealt with through all of those trips. My wife, who happens to be Chinese asked me to make sure to keep your contact information for future China trips, with the intention of replacing the China based agent her brother usually uses for our trips.
Please let your manager know that we would probably not have used your company if not for you. Bamboo Travel is new to us and in a foreign country, so we had doubts as to what to expect. Your service was excellent from start to finish which really gave us confidence in your company. We had a little bit of an unusual itinerary and some constraints related to our other China travel prior to this tour. You were able to work through all of our issues with fast responses to our questions.
You also went what I would say was above and beyond expectations. The final example of that is a friend in the US was shipping some things to our hotel in Beijing for me to bring home to her. I contacted you to confirm the hotel name before they shipped the items, expecting I would then have to figure out the shipping details. Your reply not only confirmed the hotel, but you provided the shipping info in both English and Chinese, which saved me the hassle of trying to figure which address to use. Not a huge thing, but it's those small things that add up to a big difference in customer experience.
Thanks again for everything!
Xian:
Our guide was Waldner and we liked him from the start. We were just coming off another tour with another company which had maybe the best tour leader we've ever had. Even though we were always comparing Waldner measured up well. He was great at explaining the history of places we visited as well as answering our cultural questions. The restaurants/food were very good. He and the driver also modified the itinerary somewhat to optimize the driving based on our arrival and departure times and locations. We liked the hotel in Xian. The car (van) was very comfortable. Waldner also helped arrange tickets for a night show for us.
Beijing:
Pickup was great; even though we got in late the guide that picked us up was there and actually met us at the track. Cindy was our guide and we really liked her also. She is very knowledgeable and willing to answer (a lot of) questions. This was my 3rd time in Beijing and it was amazing what a difference having a good guide made. Cindy and the driver also modified the itinerary to optimize the driving. She also helped us book tickets to two shows, one of which was not on your list of optional items (Lao She tea house). Cindy was concerned about us ordering a cab so she stayed at the show to make sure we got back to our hotel ok. The restaurants/food were very good. The hotel was good but not great; for example we had hot water issues every day, and when I went to pick up a package that was shipped to me they just left me to dig through a pretty large pile of packages all addressed in Chinese.
To wrap up, I would rate the overall experience of looking for a trip, picking a company, and traveling 9.5 out of 10. Shirley, your service was 10 out of 10.
See you next trip!
Terry
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Huangshan City
Begin-to-believe Peak
Andreas' group from Swedan - Flying-over-Rock, Yellow Mountain, Huangshan
Enjoy Hot Spring at Huangshan
Jenny's group from Vietnam - Yellow Mountain Sunrise, Huangshan, Anhui
Hongcun Village in Winter
- To protect the safety of travelers from strong snow, Lotus Peak and Celestial Peak are closed during winter days (usually from December to March).
- As Winter Maintenance, West Sea Grand Canyon is closed usually from December to March. Travelers can only get to Dispelling-clouds Pavilion to enjoy the scenery of West Sea Grand Canyon.
- Some of the paths on the mountain are slippery after snow. Please be cautious! A pair of alpenstocks are necessary.
- Wear warmly as the temperatures are usually below 5℃ during nights and early mornings.
On Huangshan Mountain
In this tour, you will stay one night on the mountain, which is very worth doing as you will have more time to enjoy as much as landscape of Huangshan especially the amazing sunset and sunrise. There are only 6 hotels on the mountain. Our guests usually accommodate at Xihai Hotel and Beihai Hotel as they have better rooms, facilities and foods. The South Building of Xihai Hotel is the only 5-star hotel on the mountain. Please kindly know the hotels on the mountain are not as good as the 4-star and 5-star hotels in the big cities while the prices are sometimes higher because there is no vehicle road can be built to the top area of the mountain, which made these hotels cost much longer time and much more money during their constructions. Besides, the supply of the hotels are basically rely on porters who usually walk for many hours to carry the foods, drinks, vegetables, eggs, beddings from the foot of the mountain.
In Huangshan City
You will stay two nights in the downtown of Huangshan city in this tour. There are multiple choices of hotels from economy class to luxury class. We only arrange hotels with good words of mouth, better facilities and service, such as Crowne Plaza Huangshan (5 stars), Huangshan International Hotel (5 stars), Huashan Huiyan Hotel (4 stars).
Chinese dishes of local Hui-style Cuisine cooked by seasonal vegetables, pork, chicken, beef, fish, etc. are mainly served in this trip. Western breakfasts and meals are only provided in some 5 stars or 4 stars hotels.
There are a lot of walkings that you can't avoid on the mountain, so it is very important to travel light to save energy. Before going up to the mountain, you can store your luggage in a hotel located at the bottom of the mountain. Recommended packing list: comfortable and breathable clothes, hiking shoes, alpenstock, sunblock, small bag.
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