PreeChina · Sight Guide
9 sights within 284 km of Huangshan. Pick the ones you want and PreeChina can build a private, custom or tailor-made tour around them.
At a Glance
Price
Per person, in US dollars. The price covers the guide, the ground service, and the transport, meals and tickets in the itinerary, and it falls as the group grows. What a price includes and leaves out.
| Travelers | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day trip | USD 305 | USD 220 | USD 185 | USD 175 | USD 160 | USD 155 | USD 145 | USD 135 |
Premium hotels and first-class rail raise the price: the selectors on Private Tours show by how much. The final price is confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Why These Sights
9 UNESCO World Heritage sights lie within 284 km of central Huangshan, from Xidi Village at 40 km to Humble Administrator's Garden at 283 km. They are: Xidi Village, Hongcun Village, Mount Sanqing, Mount Jianglang, Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Lingering Garden, Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden.
This page lists the sights and how far each one sits from the city centre. It does not set a length for the trip: your private itinerary decides which sights to combine, the order and the number of days.
The Huangshan city guide covers the city itself.
Map
The gold marker is central Huangshan. Numbers run from the closest sight to the farthest.
Sight by Sight
40 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Listed in 2000 together with Hongcun. Ming and Qing houses and carved gate towers survive in dense numbers.
47 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Listed in 2000. An artificial water system runs through the whole village, with Moon Pond and South Lake at its core.
122 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Listed in 2008. A group of granite pillars, including Python Emerging from the Mountain, a single free-standing stone column over 100 metres tall. Most walkways hang against the cliffs.
133 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Listed in 2010 as a component of China Danxia. The Three Slabs are three giant stone columns standing side by side, and a slit of sky only a few metres wide lets walkers climb through between them.
162 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Listed in 2019. A walled city site from about 5,300 to 4,300 years ago, with a palace area, city walls and an outer water-management system.
265 km from central Huangshan, straight line
The tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming emperor. The spirit road bends with the hills instead of running straight. The front-court and rear-chamber plan and the round tomb mound became the model for later Ming and Qing imperial tombs.
280 km from central Huangshan, straight line
A textbook case of Chinese garden space design: a narrow dark corridor opens into a bright courtyard, and a 6.5-meter Song Dynasty lake stone survived the emperor's ill-fated rock-collecting fleet.
282 km from central Huangshan, straight line
A tiny 8-mu garden considered the "perfection of small gardens", the model for the Ming Dynasty courtyard in New York's Metropolitan Museum, with evening Kunqu opera performances.
283 km from central Huangshan, straight line
Begun in 1509, and by convention listed first among the four great classical gardens of China. Seventy-eight mu of garden wrap around water. Borrowed scenery works here by counting a view outside the wall as part of the garden.
Distances
| # | Sight | Type | Straight line |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Xidi Village | UNESCO Site | 40 km |
| 2 | Hongcun Village | UNESCO Site | 47 km |
| 3 | Mount Sanqing | UNESCO Site | 122 km |
| 4 | Mount Jianglang | UNESCO Site | 133 km |
| 5 | Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City | UNESCO Site | 162 km |
| 6 | Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum | UNESCO Site | 265 km |
| 7 | Lingering Garden | Heritage Site | 280 km |
| 8 | Master of the Nets Garden | Heritage Site | 282 km |
| 9 | Humble Administrator's Garden | Park | 283 km |
Straight-line distances from the centre of Huangshan. Road and rail distances are longer.
Independent Travel
Arranging these 9 stops yourself keeps the budget lower. It also means booking each one and the transfers between them. Compare a private tour with independent travel, or ask PreeChina to plan it.
Custom Tour
This route is a starting point: 1 day and 9 stops. PreeChina plans it as a private, tailor-made trip and changes the stops, the days and the pace to your group.
Questions
This page lists 9, all within 284 km of central Huangshan in a straight line.
Xidi Village, at 40 km from the centre in a straight line.
283 km in a straight line. The road distance is longer.
It depends on which sights you combine. Your private itinerary sets the number of days, the order and the pace with you.
Anyone who wants a slow day. The route links 9 stops, so each visit is short. Tell PreeChina which stops matter most and the others can go.
Explore More
This route is in Anhui. The province page lists its city guides, themes, museums and other routes.
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