7 Days in Huangshan

The old street runs 1,272 meters of Ming-and-Qing shopfronts; let the Huizhou culture museum set up the week of merchant houses ahead.

1. huangshan tunxi old street
2. huangshan huizhou culture museum

Cable car up the Yungu side; the Beihai terraces and Shixin peaks first, Guangmingding at 1,860 meters by late light. The mountain is a 1990 dual listing — sleep in a summit hotel.

1. huangshan scenic area

Morning in the west canyon's gorges, then the Guest-Greeting Pine at Yupinglou and down to Tangkou by the west cable car; bus on into Tunxi.

1. huangshan scenic area

Hongcun's Moon Pond and the 1855 Chengzhi Hall take the morning; the bamboo sea at Mukeng nearby, one of the groves used by sword-fighting films, makes a green afternoon.

1. Hongcun
2. huangshan mukeng bamboo

Xidi keeps its 1578 memorial arch and rows of merchant courtyards; quieter Pingshan, a short hop east, lines a stream with ancestral halls.

1. huangshan xidi
2. huangshan pingshan village

Chengkan claims founding in the Han era and its Luo clan hall rises three bays high; the Qiankou open-air museum moved timber houses here to save them, hall by hall.

1. huangshan chengkan
2. huangshan qiankou residences

The old prefecture seat holds the eight-legged stone arch of 1584; below town, boats drift the Xin'an River gallery toward the Zhejiang border. Leave from Shexian North HSR.

1. huangshan huizhou ancient city
2. huangshan xinanjiang gallery