On the way back to Hangzhou, we detoured to two places that had been recommended to us by the hotel guy in Huangshan City.
First, we tried to visit Ancient Huizhou town. We drove there, parked, got out, visited the washroom, went in the ticket office… and decided we just weren’t up to it. It was just too sunny and hot for walking around. So we got back in the air-conditioned car and left. In the parking lot, I got some photos of car license plates that I needed for my collection of photos of car license plates, so that was good.
Then, we went to another tourist site, a place with yellow mud Hui-style houses. Same problem, but worse: we would have had to take a shuttle bus into the tourist area, which would have made it hard to leave if we got tired of walking around. We called it quits and headed back to the highway to Hangzhou. But we enjoyed the scenery on the little roads on our detour, and the mountains along the highway looked pretty cool too.
See below for 16 photos from our drive from Huangshan back to Hangzhou.
Cool bridge.Map of Ancient Huizhou. Just looking at this map made me tired…It’s too bad, because it’s probably a great place to visit! According to this very typical decorative and informative rock near the entrance, Ancient Huizhou has a national AAAAA rating (the highest level).Hui-style roofs have a stair-step pattern. Something about fire prevention.Not an old gate, I think, just old style. Note the one-person electric “car”. It seems that Chinese New Year decorations typically remain up all year… August is definitely not still within the new year period, lol.As we drove past this tall and impressive bridge, I took 38 photos—most of which were actually photos of trees.Pretty hill along the river.Another bridge.Okay now we’re *on* a bridge.Something something something COUNTRY something something something something TEA… I give up. Siqi says: “Build whole country first whole area tea leaf no-fertilizer-remnant city.” In other words (maybe): “Let’s be (we are?) the country’s first area for growing tea without fertilizer.”Construction. (It’s everywhere.)Toll gate. The detour is over and we’re getting back on the highway.Zoooooom!Floofy clouds and green wrinkled mountains. (Mom’s photo.)I could look at these all day.Map at a rest area. (Mom’s photo.) I’m pointing to central Hangzhou, but that’s not where we’re going. My house is approximately on that big horizontal road between the two ring roads to the west of central Hangzhou, in Old Yuhang in Yuhang District. Probably the “you are here” is the big blue arrow over on the left.
