Taiping Cable Car, Mount Huangshan

We took bus from Hangzhou West long-distance bus station at 1330 for Taiping.  98 RMB for our bus ticket.  Taiping is a tiny town at the northern entrance of Mount Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), a cable car terminal that delivers you to Pine Forest Peak in the northwestern corner of HuangShan; from there, trails lead south and east into the mountains.  We will start our trekking to West Sea Canyon tomorrow, and I will describe my trek in the West Sea Canyon in my next blog article.

I have read many articles recommended the Taiping cable car instead of either of the other two, as it has better views.

Taiping Cable car（from Pine Valley Nunnery to Pine Forest Peak), also called Cableway 2. It is 3,561.9 meters long and its height difference is 1,004 meters. It is of four-line reciprocating type, with one pair of cable cars, carrying capacity of 100 + 1 persons for each car ( one way trip lasts 11.6 minutes ).

Ticet Price: Up Y65 for adult, Y35 for child, down Y55 for adult, Y30 for child
Business Hours: 6.30am-4.00pm

Kindly remind you the cable car stops after 4 pm. For those who arrive in the local airport in later afternoon, it would be impossible to go up mountain by cable car the same day. Instead, you need to overnight in the downtown (Tunxi) before driving to Huangshan the next day morning. If you do not like stay in the city, you might take a cab from the airport to Hongcun Village, about 1 hour drive, the village is known as one of the most beautiful villages in China…Simple B & B accommodation available. If weather permits, the view of sunset is a good chance for photography.

Another attraction worth to see is Hu Kaiwen Ink Stick Factory in Tunxi. Read a good article writen by Scottshangguan, for his trip to Hu Kaiwen Ink Stick Factory.

More tours of Mount Huangshan and Hongcun Village…