5 Days Huangshan Yellow Mountain Tour with Side trip to Wangxian Valley

Day 1 Huangshan Arrival

Today's highlight: Tunxi Ancient Street

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.

• Survived Relatively Untouched Tunxi Ancient Town
• Tunxi Ancient Street evening

Day 2 Huangshan (B)

Today's highlights: Begin-to-Believe Peak, West Sea Grand Canyon, Dispelling Cloud Pavilion, Bright Summit

Walking Distance: about 7~9km/5~6 hrs

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. Walk down along the stone steps to the deeper area of the canyon while enjoying the Avatar-like rising rock peaks, unfathomable cliffs, bizarre stones and tenacious pine trees. 

Generally speaking, it takes about 3 hours for an energetic hiker to hike from the Dispelling Cloud Pavilion, via 1st Ring and 2nd Ring to the bottom and return to the starting point. For beginners, children, and senior travelers, you can decide the hiking length on your own according to your physical condition, usually 2 hours for the 1st Ring and 2.5hrs for the 2nd Ring. In the bottom of the canyon, there is also a monorail cable trains for those who don’t want to return by walking to transfer back to the peak area. 

If time and energy allow, you can spend about one hour to explore the Sky Sea Scenic Area where you can enjoy the sunset from the second highest peak - Bright Summit (1840m), visit the incredible Flying-over Rock, then return to your hotel on the mountain and have a good rest.

(Please Note: from December to the late March of next year, West Sea Grand Canyon is usually closed for the cold weather and heavy snow. Please feel free to contact us to adjust your itinerary.)

• Breathtaking scenery of West Sea Grand Canyon
• Begin-to-believe Peak
• Anjali from USA visited Yellow Mountain Huangshan in January, 2019
• Robert from USA enjoyed the sea of clouds on Yellow Mountain in June, 2019

Day 3 Huangshan - Jingdezhen (B, L)

Today's highlights: Yellow Mountain Sunrise, Lion Peak, Sculpture Porcelain Factory Marke, Taoxichuan Walking

Get up early (usually around 5am to 6am) to enjoy the magnificentsunrisefrom 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 famousDawn Pavilion,Stone Monkey Watching the Seaon theLion Peak(1690m). Then walk along the wood path to the cable station totake a cable carto exit the mountain. Your driver is ready at the mountain foot to transfer you to Jingdezhen which is about 2.5 hours' drive from Huangshan.

After checking in to your hotel in Jingdezhen, you will start to explore this China's "porcelain capital" with an interesting visit to Sculpture Porcelain Factory Market which was once the factory building and park of the Sculpture Porcelain Factory, one of the ten largest porcelain factories in Jingdezhen. After the old porcelain factory was reformed and merged, the local area was vacated and gradually became a gathering place for young people. It is also a porcelain journey, but this place is a place with an artistic atmosphere. Compared with the traditional porcelain in the ancient kilns, the things here are not so much "porcelain" as they are "ceramic gadgets". Many local young artists and students will also come here to sell their works, which mostly have strong personal styles and are more in line with the preferences of the younger generation, such as Japanese anime style, cute animal style and so on. Later, go to Taoxichuan which is a typical post-industrial cultural and creative park. It was transformed from an old porcelain factory and kiln site. It has similarities to the "798 Art Zone" in Beijing and the "Erling Second Factory" in Chongqing. Inside Taoxichuan, there are restaurants, shops, homestays, studios, museums... Especially at night, the colorful lights on the chimneys and factory buildings light up, making it very beautiful.

After the leisure time at Taoxichuan, return to your hotel in Jingdezhen City.

• Lion Peak Landscape
• Beautiful Sunrise of Yellow Mountain
• Taoxichuan - great place to stroll around
• Stone Monkey Watching the Sea (on Lion Peak)

Day 4 Jingdezhen - Wangxian Valley (B, L)

Today's highlights: Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum, China Ceramic Museum, Porcelain Palace, Wangxian Valley Night View

Today after breakfast, go to visit Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum is the only national 5A-level tourist attraction in China with a ceramic culture theme. The park preserves and inherits the world's largest wood-fired kiln, which holds the Guinness World Record, as well as the national intangible cultural heritage of Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain craftsmanship and Jingdezhen's traditional porcelain kiln workshop construction skills. The expo area is built on a hilly forest park, with bamboo forests and trees everywhere, making it especially cool. The biggest highlight of the park are the ancient kilns that represent the highest firing technology of each dynasty. Many of them can still be used today, and they will be fired at a specific time every autumn. Here you can learn about the ceramic production processes, and each process has professional ceramic masters to demonstrate on site. You can also enjoy the rare performance of the porcelain band, all of whose instruments are made of Jingdezhen porcelain.

After ancient Kiln folk culture exploration, move to nearby China Ceramic Museum which is the first large-scale ceramic-themed art museum in China. It houses over 50,000 pieces of ceramic masterpieces from different historical periods starting from the Neolithic era to the Han and Tang dynasties. Additionally, it also collects numerous foreign and out-of-town ceramics, as well as items like metal, stone, and jade artifacts, calligraphy, and paintings. The museum also showcases modern and contemporary Jingdezhen ceramic masterpieces. On the top floor, there is a gallery spanning hundreds of meters, exhibiting the traditional 72-step process of ceramic making in Jingdezhen. Each copper sculpture vividly depicts the process, making it highly engaging for visitors.

Your last attraction to visit in Jingdezhen is Xinping Porcelain Palace which is a complex of circular buildings with a unique architectural style that combines elements of Hakka tulou and traditional Chinese architecture. It is decorated with tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain, making it a true "porcelain palace". The palace was built by a local villager, Yu Ermei, over a period of 10 years. The palace also houses a large collection of porcelain paintings depicting various themes from Chinese traditional culture, such as the Four Classic Novels, Journey to the West, and the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea.

In the afternoon, drive about 3 hours to Wangxian Valley in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province. Check in to your hotel in the ancient town. The rest time is free for you to relax and explore amazing night view of the valley and town.

• Jingdezhen Ancient Kiln Folk Customs Museum
• Jingdezhen China Ceramics Museum
• Xinping Porcelain Palace
• Wangxian Valley night view

Day 5 Wangxian Valley - Shanghai Departure (B)

Today's highlight: Wangxian Valley

Today try to get up early to avoid the tourist crowds. After breakfast, you will go to enjoy both the natural landscape and cultural highlights of Wangxian Valley.

Reputed as a real-life version of a fantasy world, Wangxian Valley (Wangxiangu 望仙谷) used to be an abandoned mine site. If offers a profound journey through the harmonious trio of natural landscapes, human heritage, and legendary tales that transcends the ordinary. Here, it invits all who wander its paths to step into a story where every nook is a verse, every vista a painting, and every moment an ode to the enduring dance of nature, culture, and myth. The highlighting experience here is to walk up the cliffside plank roads to reach the top of the mountain, the White Crane Cliff to enjoy a panoramic view of the valley.

It's time to say good bye to Wangxian Valley. You will be transferred to catch a high speed train back to Shanghai to catch your flight/train to next destination. You can also finish the tour at other locations, such as Shanghai high speed railway station, Shanghai's railway stations or airport, or hotels in Shanghai. Please let us know in advance.

• Wangxian Valley waterfall and path
• Cliffside houses of Wangxian Valley