We first took the Yuping Cable Car at Ciguang Station (or Mercy Light Station) to Yuping Peak (Jade Screen). This was also the location where we had booked a room in the Yupinglou Hotel for our first night. We dropped off our luggage and went to see the most iconic view of Huangshan: The Welcoming Guest Pine (Yingkesong), a tree.

After seeing the somewhat disappointing tree, we started our climb to Lotus peak, which, unfortunately, was closed. However, due to the cloudy weather, I don’t think we would have seen anything anyway.

We continued our voyage to The Fairy Walking Bridge (Buxian), a small bridge linking two steep rocks looking over the Xihai Scenic Area. After a 90-minute hike, we were rewarded with a beautiful view over the West Sea Canyon (Xihai). We took a lot of pictures, made a few time lapses, recorded some drone footage and then started our walk to Bright Top (Guangming ding), where we had planned to see the sunset.

The entire day we could barely see anything of the mountains, making us a bit demotivated. But all of this went away once we were lucky to see the amazing sunset from Bright Top. Happy that our day wasn’t a complete ‘waste’, we headed back to our nice hotel where we enjoyed a suprisingly good – and a tad overprized – meal.