Den Huashan zu besteigen, war im Wortsinne naheliegend, denn Xi'an liegt nur knappe zwei Stunden Busfahrt vom Berg entfernt. In our very tight schedule we were able to accommodate the mountain so were it not for the uncertainty with the transport have been. Two anxious hours we spent the morning at the station forecourt, until finally there was a public bus that carried us and about 40 other people waiting to the mountain. The relief that was so big (a taxi would have cost at least 400 RMB, and was 太贵 it) that all of the following happened to sound almost easy.
The Huashan is one of the sacred mountains of Taoism, one of which is the Taishan in Shandong. Last year I had already climbed Taishan, a comparison suggests itself. The
Huashan has four peaks, one each in the north, south, east and west, which is in the south with 2160 m the highest. As the Taishan is the Huashan a "walk" mountain, that there are steps carved up to the various peaks in the stone. In contrast to the Taishan Huashan is not only higher but also much more strenuous climb. In part, it is surprisingly narrow ridges that are going up.
The Huashan has a lot more small monasteries on the way, have been transformed, however, mostly in food items, restaurants and inns. There will be many hermit, occasionally seen caves well serve as such or may have served. Contrary to the Taishan there are far fewer in stone carved calligraphy. Nature at Huashan is rather bitter.
We (a Chinese student and I) were lucky with the weather, it was not too hot. Even otherwise it was pleasant, for there were few people (until the next morning, May 1, it was full on the mountain, but we already made the descent). For the ascent to the North summit, we took a good four hours, from there to the east summit once again barely three hours. As in the Taishan we stayed in a hostel, at the summit, around the next morning (again, beautiful and accompanied by applause) to see sunrise.
went after sunrise's on to the other peaks, then down the north peak where we took the cable car back down and catch the bus to Xi'an. At the end of the walk occurred still a little strange:? I was interviewed by local television stations and was friendly information on the standard questions (Do you like China What do you think of our beautiful nature Is it comparable beauty even in your country, are the Share your mountain friends are? come back to you?).
Overall it was a very nice hike, but not as meditative as the Taishan. Although there were some couples who - hung red ribbons tied to trees or small locks on the chains on the road, but otherwise there was no mystical motivated walkers - as a sign of their love. Most seemed to be motivated, to cope with the difficult mountain in force by the athletic challenge - what my Chinese companions and I then even managed quite adequately.
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