Winter trip to Yellow Mountain Back 2 weeks ago, I organized a trip to Yellow Mountain, and asked some friends join me. Yellow mountain, one of the most notable and spectacular mountains in China. With its amazing sunrise, grotesque rocks, dramatic pines, and seas of clouds, Yellow Mountain attracts numerous tourists go to visit. In the warm seasons, tons of people, it comes to all people around you everywhere. So we chose winter to go. As when weather gets cold, people are lazy to go outside. I have been hiking a lot either on weekend or on holiday. For this time, we participated a Chinese college student group which is non-profit (I always join international hiking trip). This time I volunteered to be tour guide for all my friends, because I invited more than 10 friends and most of them are foreigners. Nevertheless, all trip information is written in Chinese. It took around 6 hours to Yellow Mountain by bus. It was around 2am when we arrived in our guest house in mountain area. We rushed to wash and went to bed to get ready for next day. Weather was not so good next morning, it was raining and cold. Everyone put on raincoat and was ready to get some real pain. We were lucky not so many people in the mountain. It didn’t take that much time to buy entrance tickets. We were talking to each other, it was quite international trip. We got Mexican, Spanish, Indian, German, American, French and Chinese in my team. Although fog blocked the view from the mountain, we didn’t really see the beauty of the mountain. We had some fun talks and took some nice pictures together. It was freezing, as it’s raining as well. Walking another half hour, we arrived our hotel on the top. Everyone felt released. Everyone sat together to share food which we brought from Shanghai. After lunch we took a nap. At night, we gathered at one room to have party. Someone brought some wine and someone brought vodka, we put all the snacks together. Talking and playing game. A lot of blast and laughter coming from our room. Around middle night, everyone hit the sack. We wanted to wake up early to see the sunrise next morning. After a sound sleeping, we woke up at 6 and packed up everything to leave to another peak to wait for the sunrise. Unfortunately, it was foggy as rained last day, steam gathering around. Sunrise was just no-show. So we started to climb up the mountain, this time we chose another routine to hike down. Some places are really creepy and spooky, cliffy and steep... To be continue.....