Huangshan - Sun Rise

Huangshan Day 2
Originally uploaded by S. Zachko

Sun rise at 6:00 AM in autumn, we should have had plenty of time to reach one of the peak to see it. However, there are so many people who were so brave to hang their lives at the edge of the cliff. We decided to go some other places to save our lives instead. We were able to find this spot to take pictures. It was just amazing how beautiful the place is..

Huangshan - The stone coming out of nowhere

Huangshan Day 1
Originally uploaded by S. Zachko

For ages, people can not understand how this huge stone ends up at the tip of the peak and believe the stone has some kind of magic power - fertility. People will bride the stone by stocking coins in a crack and pat the stone. Poor park ranger has to keep cleaning the coins but not taking the coins. It is a brutal task when it is wet, cold and dark.

Huangshan - Heart Lock

Huangshan Day 1
Originally uploaded by S. Zachko

People believe to keep two lovers' hearts attached to each other, these two lovers should buy a lock together and make promises to each other. Then they attach this lock in one of the chain and throw the key over the cliff.

What do you think?

Huangshan - Pine

Huangshan Day 1
Originally uploaded by S. Zachko

Yellow Mountain itself likes groups of giant granite. There are only dusts or derbies stuck between stones. Those pine tree manages to stick their root in such a tiny space and grow in a such elegant ways. Depending on the altitude where those pines grows, people naming differently. For those pines grow at the lower altitude areas, people call them pony tail pine because their leaves/branches only grow one direction. For those pine trees grow at the higher altitude areas, people call them Yellow Mountain Pine.

No matter how the tree grows or leaves are heading, their roots are so strong and firm that make those trees grow more generations to come.