Mt. Hua Shan is located in the Shaanxi Province of China. It is located 120 km from Xi'an. Mt Huashan is one of the five sacred mountains in China.
Mt. Hua is home to several influential Taoist temples where emperors of past dynasties made pilgrimages, making this mountain the holy land of Taoism. Many emperors came to pray and sacrifice to the God of Mt. Huashan.
Huashan consists of five peaks (East- 2096.2 m, Middle, West- 2087 m, North- 1614.9 m and South- 2154.9 m).
Do you call it climbing or hiking? Well, I would definatelly say hiking, but a few bits were scary, so climing gear was definatelly needed. Maybe the way to describe the route would be to say Hard Core Hiking.
I was hiking with 2 nice guys from Finland. Both working in Beijing as expats. Jarno - 34 and Harri- 31.
The staying in a hotel by the West Peak. The hotel resembled the movie Shining! Empty, cold, spooky. The electrity went out and we ate outside by a terrace. A true candlelight dinner, heh.
Was it hard? well, at least my legs were shaking by the end of the day. See the photos in the photo gallery.
