Huangshan Family Travel - Recommended Spots, Activities and Tour Packages 2024/2025

A hiking trip to Huangshan Mountain is the most brilliant highlight and must-do for all Huangshan tourists. Parents will share the spectular mountain views and natural splendors with children, and set a good example of loving outdoor spots and beautiful nature. The once-in-a-lifetime journey will also exercise children’s bodies, under the courgae and help from the parents.

Attentively, there are a variety of hiking routes in different length, time and difficulty on the Yellow Mountain. According to the fitness and comfort, your family can spend 2 ~ 3 days and more to visit the major sites on the mountain, including the West Sea Xihai Grand Canyon with amazing land formations, and stay overnight at the top to watch sunrise or sunset. Whiling climebing Mt. Huangshan with kids, your family members are most recommended to choose a easier and more leisurable walking since the entire hiking is quite challenge and strenuous.

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How to Get to Yellow Mountain | Huangshan Hiking Map | Hotels on Huangshan Mountain | Huangshan Cable Cars

Best Time to Visit Mt. Huangshan | What to Pack for Huangshan Tour | Huangshan Sunrise | Huangshan Sunset

Huangshan villages are the largest number and most well-preserved Chinsee ancient villages in China. Visiting the picturesque ancient Huizhou style villages helps you and your kids catch a glimpse of the fasinating local culture and their glorious history. With a slower pace, all of you can walk though the old alleyes, view traditional architectures with various of carved decorations. It is a good oppornity for the children to learn Chinese culture and history of Southern Anhui.

In Hongcun and Xidi Ancient Village, the two World Cultural Heritages, your family can spend a night in the elaborate ancient houses of the Ming and Qing Dynasties to experience the authentic living scenes. In Bishan and Nanping, two peaceful villages near Xidi, you and the young kids can enjoy pretty countryside landscape and tasting local flavor.

No matter you are going to visit Huangshan Mountain by high speed bullet train or flight, Tunxi, downtwon Huangshan City, is always the first destination you will arrive in. Before heading to Yellow Mountain or back to other city, your family can’t miss the Tunxi Old Street. There the children and you can not only taste all sorts of local delicacies, buy characteristic souvenirs, but also see many ancient architecture preserved in original look, and purchase Four Treasures of Study (wirting bush, inkstick, paper andinkstone) and nice paintings. Feel hungry and get tired? Try the delicous dishes and snacks in Laojie Diyi Lou or Meishi Renjia in the old street to satisfy your tummy and be the locals.

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● Xin'an River 新安江

Apart from mountain hiking, villages touring, Huangshan offers your family relaxing river cruising in Xin’an River as well. The river is a 373-kilometer-long moving landscape gallery connecting Huangshan, Anhui and Qiandao Lake, Zhejiang. While sitting on board, you and the kids can enjoy a beautiful scroll painting of ancient villages surround by peaks and farmlands. If you go ashore, you can watch performance of fishing skill, Miantan Opera, seasonal folk customs and local wedding culture. The walking distances are very short, easier for children. Xin’an River Landscape Gallery >

● Mukeng Bamboo Forest 木坑竹海

With vast sea of green bamboos, Mukeng Bamboo Forest, located very near to Hongxun Village, is another good places to go with kids. It would excite your children when you visit the scenic area, once was filmed in the Oscar Winner, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Gragon. Also, taking your kids do the short circut hiking in such a natural oxygen bar and seeing so many green trees does great benefit to the health of the kids and you.

● Huizhou Ancient City 徽州古城

Huizhou Ancient City, also called She County Ancient City, is one of the four best preserced ancient cities in China. If your family are interested in Chinese culture and history, the historic architecture complex is a good sites to explore. You can take the kids visiting the Huizhou State office to see the previous government office, see the only surviving 8-crutched memorial archway - Xuguo Stone Archway and the famous hydraulic engineering of Yuliang Anicent Dam and ramble in Doushan Street to observe grandiose house of the Huizhou merchants. Let the kids stay by your side to avoid get lost, because Huizhou Ancient City is huge with complicated alleys.

Your family can bike in and around the ancient villages to view the picturesque countryside scenery and visit the charming village when you rest on the way. All the biking routes we offer will be done on the well-pave roads, which demands minimal physical strength. We listed the 4 of the most popular biking tours between Hongcun to Mukeng Bamboo Forest, in Bishan, between Guanlu and Nanping, Chengkan to Qiankou. Thus, you can see different landscape or stay longer in one quiet village with the kids. Huangshan Biking Tours >

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Tachuan Village | Chengkan Village | Guanlu Village | Nanping Village

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Anhui Province is the most well-known and authentic hometown to Four Treasures of Study in China. The four treasures are writing brush, inkstick, paper and inkstone, four major writing and painting tools for scholors. It belongs to the Chinese traditional culture for more than 1500 years. When your family tour Huangshan, you have chance to take in some background culture about it. If you visit Tunxi Old Street, you and the kids can join in a handcraft class to make the inksticks in Hu Kaiwen Ink Factory and Chinese writing brushes in a store, and learn Huizhou paper cutting nearby the street. Huizhou Culture / Huizhou Architecture

>> Huizhou Culture Experiences in Huangshan

Getting involved in the daily routine is one good way to be and learn from the locals in Huangshan. Living in modern urban life, parents are more and more like to take the kids back to rural ereas to get a speical experience. There the kids can see, touch and remember the charming of the nature when they join in the locallihood. In Nanping Village, you can experience traditional farm works, such as wheelbarrow driving, fresh vegetable picking and water lifting. Moreover, your family can try tea picking and tasting in Xieyueda Ecological Tea Garden, Hui style desert and Tofu making in local farms. Huangshan Local Life Experience >

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● Hot Spring

Taking a bath in a hot spring after hiking up and down on the Yellow Mountain will ease your family members’ sore body and foot, and gives a relaxing feeling and many healthy benefits. The hot spring at the foot of Mt. Huangshan is one of the four natural wonders which is located near the Mercy Light Temple Cable Car Station. If you make a winter tour to Huangshan, the warm waters in the hot spring will dispell your coldness and relax your legs.

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● Shopping

Huangshan has many local specilities and featured handcraft your family can buy as souvenirs before retuning home. Tunxi Old Street is the most recommended place to find all, including top famous Chines teas (Yellow Mountain Maofeng Tea, Qimen Black Tea), local snacks (Chinese stylesesame seed cake, Huizhou flavor desert), carved artifacts and the Four Jewels of the Study. You can also buy interesting items whiling visiting the ancient villages.