July 13:
15:42 from the Beijing West Railway Station to take the T10 (Beijing West - Chongqing), ready to go to Hubei's Shiyan City.
July 14:
6:45 arrived at Shiyan station. My friend picked up the station and drove straight to Wudang Mountain, having breakfast at Liuliping along the way. There are several Chinese buses from Shiyan Railway Station to Wudangshan Railway Station, and the fare is said to be 6 yuan, or you can talk about 5 yuan. It takes about 40 to 50 minutes. From Wudang Mountain Railway Station to Wudang Mountain Scenic Spot is only 1 kilometer, take a motorcycle about 1 yuan, walking to less than 20 minutes. The location of Wudang Mountain used to be called Wudang Mountain Town, under the jurisdiction of Danjiangkou, a county-level city under Shiyan City. Because of its rich tourism resources and abundant tax revenue, it has now become a special zone of Shiyan City, directly under the management of Shiyan City.
Arrive at the gate of Wudang Mountain Scenic Area at 7:45. Purchase tickets, which cost 180 yuan (110 yuan for tickets and 70 yuan for bus fare), half price for seniors and students, 2 yuan for insurance and 3 yuan for tourist map (voluntary purchase). Wudang Mountain Scenic Area does not allow private cars to enter, from the scenic area gate to the scenic area as well as the scenic area between the various attractions are required to take the scenic area of the green car. Because the weather forecast today is sunny to cloudy, so did not bring a poncho, but at this time but a little rain, so in the scenic area near the gate to buy a disposable raincoat, 3 yuan, there are also 8 yuan and 1 yuan.
8:00 on the scenic environmental protection vehicle. The car is a very good choice for the first time in the world, but it's also a very good choice for the second time in the world. Even concentrated on listening to the introduction, it did not carefully study the tourist map. Along the way through the "grinding needle well" (now called Fuzhen Guan) and other attractions. Legend has it that when Emperor Zhenwu first came out to learn Taoism, he encountered a thousand hardships and his heart was cold and wanted to give up practicing. He came to this place, he met an old woman (the incarnation of the gods), grinding an iron bar on the stone, ready to be sharpened into a needle, with which he was enlightened. He was inspired to practise again and finally achieved the right result. A well and an iron rod remain here to encourage people.
8:50 scenic environmental protection vehicle arrived at Qiongtai transit station. Tourists are starting to get off. I asked the driver why he didn't go to Crow's Nest after looking at the map, and the driver said that the bus only goes to Qiongtai, but he can take me to Taizipo to change the bus to Crow's Nest, and it takes about 30 minutes to Taizipo, and about 20 minutes to Crow's Nest. It turns out that Qiongtai and Taizi slope, Crow's Nest is two lines, if you want to hike to the highest peak of the Wudang Mountain Tianzhu Peak Golden Peak, generally take the environmentally friendly car to the Crow's Nest, and then from the front or back of the mountain to climb to the Golden Peak. Visitors to Qiongtai usually take the cable car to the Golden Peak. Here is a problem, I sat in the environmental protection vehicle there is a tour group, they are ready to take the cable car, the driver will certainly drive to the Qiongtai (I suspect that may be intentionally to Qiongtai, so that tourists take the cable car to generate revenue). The driver drove them to Qiongtai as a matter of course. Here to condemn the scenic guide, they should tell tourists how to take the car after checking the ticket. Also want to condemn the driver of the environmental protection vehicle, to the Qiongtai he told here can only take the cable car to the Golden Peak, but also put all the blame on the guide. I was looking at the map of the tour from the Qiongtai Zhongguang there is a small road can reach the Golden Peak, so I do not want to waste time on the car.
Get off the environmental protection vehicle, asked the locals about the location of the path to the top of the gold, was told that the path exists, is the cable car before the completion of the road to the top of the gold to go, the road is not good, a number of dirt roads, washed by the rain is not good to go, and there are fork in the road. It's okay to walk on a sunny day, but now I don't dare to walk, because yesterday it rained heavily, and now there's still a light rain, it's easy to get out of danger, it's better to take the cable car.
If you don't want to take the cable car, you can't believe it, and you'll have to take the path to the top of the mountain. The first thing that you need to do is to get into the Qiongtai, and you will be able to get around the neighborhood, and you will be able to figure out the way to get to the top of the mountain.
9:00 to Qiongtai Zhongguang turn around. I know that the cable car costs 50 yuan, and the Taoist priest at Qiongtai Zhongguancun also told me that there is a small way to go up the mountain, so I just need to look at the cable car route and I won't go wrong.
20 meters to the left of the Qiongtai Zhongguancun, you can see a warning sign "scenic fire, alarm bells ringing", the path up the mountain as a starting point. Follow the principle of the main road and the principle of the right will not be wrong.
At the beginning, the path goes around the red wall of Qiongtai Zhongguancun, and you will meet a family, so you can pass by the right side of the family.
At 9:30 a.m., you reach a flat spot where the trail widens.
9:47 see the scenic tip sign, there are "scenic beauty like a picture, environmental protection rely on everyone", "take care of the Wudang fairy mountain, return to a lifetime of peace" words. At this point, I am sure that the route is not wrong. Along the way there are sections of the cable car can be seen in the distance. It was just drizzling and very foggy, so I couldn't see it clearly in the distance. And the rainwater seeping out of the mountain ran along the path, making it muddy to walk.
At 10:37, we reached a platform where there was a fork in the road and a red warning sign hanging on a tree saying "No outdoor smoking or fire". The left side of the fork in the road upward, the road is more spacious, more like the main road (I think you can also get to the top of the Golden Peak, but it is not recommended to try), the right side of the fork in the road downward, this road is more close to the cable car line, so I chose to take this road.
Along the way there are sections of stone steps, the roadside can also be seen stone stacked stalls, it is estimated that the cable car was not built before, a number of tourists on the mountain to walk this path, when the local people here stalls, but now tourists are taking the cable car, here will be alone only these stone stacked stalls left.
10:55, found the cable car is overhead, the route and the cable car line is almost perpendicular. At this point, it was noticed that there was a fork in the road on the right side, which was not as obvious as the left upward path. Observe the direction of cable car travel (up and down), judge the left side is closer to the Golden Peak. Choose the left upward path.
Soon arrived at a flat open place, here hanging on the tree green sign "Qiongtai - Golden Peak Sedan Chair Terminal", here there are some fork in the road, presumably the previous path up the mountain. Choose to go left.
11:07 after encountering the steps, here you can see the tourists marching, learned that this is the Crow's Nest to the Golden Dome of the former mountain road. Choose to travel up left.
11:12 Arrive at the intersection of the upper station of the ropeway, where there is a signpost showing 4 kilometers to Crow's Ridge (the former mountain). Here is a platform with seats for resting and a "Golden Peak VIP House" for accommodation. By now the drizzle has stopped. Thanks to the cool and cloudy weather, I can't imagine how much more I would have sweated if it was a sunny day.
At 11:25, we arrived at the Hall of Royal Scripture. The hall is a very unique brick and wood structure, with "Sheng Tian Li Di", an imperial writing by Emperor Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, hanging in the hall.
There are three routes where the Hall of Royal Scripture is located, one is even up the route, the Crow's Nest to the Golden Dome of the front route, this route is more gentle, but fewer attractions. One is to the left traveling, the back of the mountain downhill route from the Golden Dome to the Crow's Nest, this route is steeper, but there are more attractions. The other right upward is Golden Peak. Choose to go right up to the Golden Peak Ticket Office. Gold Peak scenic area also have to purchase an additional ticket 20 yuan, students can two people **** with a ticket.
From the ticket office to the right is the transit hall, where you can circle around the statue of Buddha, the gap is very small, very dark, but quite interesting. Forward from the ticket office is the All Saints Pavilion. To the left from the ticket office is the Palace of Supreme Harmony, a larger hall with an all-bronze casting of the Imperial Monument in front of the door. To the right from the palace is the ticket booth at the Golden Dome.
After entering the ticket office and arriving at the Forbidden City, the Golden Dome is enclosed by a 300-meter-long wall with towers at intervals.
Crossing the Forbidden City, you must walk in the counterclockwise direction, otherwise the crowd will be crowded and stampede. Walk right to reach the Hall of the Spiritual Master. There is a saying that the emperor can not personally reach the highest place of the Golden Dome, as if that the emperor will be the end of the emperor, so the emperor has to send a spiritual officer instead of their own to the Golden Dome to pay homage to, so in this place to build the Hall of the Spiritual Officers, the door in front of the stone tablets, which are engraved with the imperial decree and so on.
After the Lingguan Hall, you climb up a steep slope to reach the Golden Hall of the Golden Dome. At this time is 12:00
JinDian in wudang mountain tianzhu peak top of the gold dome at, built in the Ming Yongle fourteen years (1416). Hall 5.54 meters high, 4.4 meters wide, 3.15 meters deep, all for the copper casting gilt imitation wood building. Although hundreds of years of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, heat and cold, so far is still golden and brilliant, brilliant as before. It is a splendid pearl in ancient Chinese architecture and casting technology. Inside the temple statues, cases, offerings are cast in bronze. The temple in the real emperor copper statue weighs 10,000 pounds. Two bronze cranes in front of the temple standing opposite each other, through a Taoist idle clouds and wild cranes, the flavor of the sky high clouds. Sumeru seat in front of the Golden Temple, respectively, by two 4-meter-wide 7-meter-long boulder pieced together and become, weighing a hundred tons, is a masterpiece.
There is an incense burning furnace in front of the Golden Hall, and there is the Parents' Hall behind the Golden Hall.
Start descending at 12:10. Go right from the Hall of Royal Scripture and choose to descend from the back of the mountain.
12:25 Arrive at a square below the Pilgrimage Gate. There are icons here and switchbacks to the left that lead to the Hanging Bell Terrace and the Green Emblem Palace. Right up is the Pilgrimage Gate. Go left and soon encounter the signpost for Hanging Bell Terrace, with the fork on the right that leads around the Pilgrimage Gate to the Three Heavenly Gates. The building on the left is an inn. Along the hanging bell platform signposts straight ahead, soon saw a large bronze bell, here there is a signpost indicating that the front to the Qing Hui Palace, ask the locals know that there are still 5 miles, and is repairing the road is not good to go, did not go.
The original way back to the square under the pilgrimage gate, after lunch, right up the direction of the pilgrimage gate.
12:50 arrived at the pilgrimage gate, this place has a road sign shows, to the crow ridge 4 kilometers.
12:58See the turnoff to the left, which connects with the turnoff to the right of the Hanging Bells Terrace sign you saw earlier.
13:02There is a path on the right side of the road that leads to a small temple formed by a small cave on the mountain, with the words "Myoho Tiandi" on the top of the temple.
13:08 Arrive at the Three Heavenly Gates.
At 13:10 we reach the Second Heavenly Gate. The way is up and down big steep slopes, which is rather grueling.
13:18 arrive at Huixianqiao. There are stalls to eat here.
At 13:28, we reached the First Heavenly Gate
At 13:37, we reached the Black Tiger Cave. The Taoist man wanted to drag me to tell my fortune, but I ignored him, knowing that it was all a lie.
13:42 arrived at the heavenly palace, went in and around. The first thing that you need to do is to get to the point where you can get to the top of the mountain and the back of the mountain from the Crow's Nest to the top of the mountain. From the Chaotian Palace straight ahead is the general tourists often go to the front of the mountain to the Golden Peak route, the Chaotian Palace left is the route down the mountain to the Crow's Nest. Choose to go down left.
13:50 encountered a fork in the road, the right side of the road to the Yellow Dragon Cave, the left side of the road down the mountain to the Crow Ridge. Choose to go right.
13:52 Arrive at Yellow Dragon Cave. Huanglong Cave is located in the cliff of Zigai Peak there is a cave, is a natural rock house, by the construction of successive generations of practitioners of additions, here there are Huanglong Hall, Zhenwu Pavilion, Hall of the King of Medicine, the Divine Spring Pavilion and other buildings, so that it is more mysterious and deep and secluded color. There is a spring in Huanglong Cave, which is inexhaustible in all seasons. Legend has it that there was a yellow dragon who ascended to heaven in this place, and the yellow dragon left an elixir to thank for the nurturing of this place. The elixir makes the water here fresh and sweet, and can cure all diseases. Legend to legend, but the Ming Dynasty great medical doctor Li Shizhen to Wudang medicine and live here is a historical reality. According to records, Li Shizhen was in the Yellow Dragon Cave to revise his magnum opus "Compendium of Materia Medica" and included more than 800 kinds of valuable herbs from Wudang Mountain in the book.
Now Huanglong Cave spring water inside the tourists put a number of coins, the water naturally can not drink, next to the Taoist priests said can be used to scrub the eyes and so on. There are words "one dollar for water" on the side of the spring.
Returning to the turnoff, we continued our descent to the Crow's Nest.
At 13:56 we reach the Upper Water Bridge.
14:00 arrived at Huanglong Pavilion, there is a small temple nearby, there are also Taoist priests pulling people fortune-telling. Don't bother.
14:05 Arrive at Shimoushui Bridge.
14:06 arrived at the four corner tower, a few towers or quite distinctive.
14:30 arrive at the Moon Emperor.
At 14:35, you will reach the wall carving of "Famous Mountain in the World".
At 14:42, you will reach the Hammer Plum Shrine. There is a fork in the road here, on the left side of the road, Highway 1.6 goes to Nanyan, which is a roundabout road leading to Crow Ridge at the end of the road. Straight ahead is Hammer Plum Shrine, then to Crow Ridge. Choose to go left for a little more sightseeing and a longer distance.
15:08 Encountered a fork in the road, the left side of the road to the South Rock Palace, the right side of the road to Hongjun Cave, is the end of the road. Choose to go right to see, very close, is a rock house, featuring a gondola, nothing special. The original way back to the fork in the road, continue to go to the South Rock Palace.
Not long after encountered the fork in the road, there is no signposts, I guess the road has just been repaired, did not have time to set up. The right side of the road down the road is estimated to lead to a small attraction, but also the end of the road. Choose the left side of the road to go up.
15:20 arrived at the ascending rock, is a high point of the platform, featuring Cihang Taoist.
At 15:22 you reach the dresser.
15:30 Arrive at the backyard of Xuan Di Hall of Nan Yan Palace, this is where Nan Yan is located. South Rock is the most beautiful of the 36 rocks in Wudang Mountain, also known as Doyang Rock, Zixiao Rock, is the Taoist claim that Zhenwu ascension of the "holy land". The South Rock is characterized by strange peaks and mountains, verdant forests, the blue sky above, and the overwhelming mountain streams below. According to legend, in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, used to cultivate in Nanyan
The existing major landscapes include Nanyan Palace, Taichangguan, Thunder God Cave, and Crow Temple.
The backyard of Xuan Di Hall has road forks toward the front leading to the Imperial Scripture Hall, Dragon Head Incense and Tian Yi Zhen Qing Palace. Choose this road. Soon arrived. Here to say a burn "dragon head incense". A barrel thick stone dragon 2.9 meters long body out of the cliff wall, below is the abyss. Stone dragon body on a step of a group of carved flowers, the dragon's head on top of a large incense burner. Whenever the incense event, thousands of tens of thousands of good men and women, groups, flags and gongs incense and paper, not far from thousands of miles to come. In order to "ancestor" in front of the face of an incense burner, kowtow a head. Some for their fathers or for their own wishes, they step on the dragon carvings step by step to the dragon head up, in the incense burner insert a piece of incense and then turn around and walk back. How many filial sons, how many believers, fell into the abyss that makes people dizzy when they look at it? Of course, this is the distant past, now has long been prohibited to burn dragon head incense. There is a wooden door with a lock in front of the dragon head incense.
Near the Dragon Head Incense, there are games such as "playing the golden bell" and "testing the luck of the dragon palace", where tourists can use coins to throw them in, and there is also a coin exchange office here. It is disguised to cheat the tourists' money. There is also an attraction called the Dragon Bed, which is more unique.
The original way back to the Hall of the Xuan Di, turn around, down, this time is 15:50.
Xuan Di Hall of the left is the "Wudang Mountain Ancient Architecture Exhibition", go in and turn around. Xuan Di Temple has "Ganlu Sacred Water", is an ancient well, there is water, not very deep.
15:55 out of the South Rock Palace right. On the left side of the road there is a 753 year old ginkgo tree covered with red cloth strips.
16:00 Arrive at Xiaotianmen, unmarked, listening to a passing guide.
16:05 encountered a fork in the road, the left side leads to the Five Dragon Palace, there is a small tower on the side, has been very dilapidated.
16:08 encountered fork in the road, the left side of the road up to the Thunder God Cave, Tai Chang Guan. This road actually reaches the South Heavenly Gate first. Straight ahead, on the other hand, bypasses the South Heavenly Gate leading to the Crow's Nest parking lot. Choose to travel left.
At 16:10, you reach the South Heavenly Gate. The left fork of the road leads to Thunder God Cave, Tai Chang Guan, about 400 more than the distance, go around the original way back. There is a road leading to the Five Dragon Palace.
From the South Heavenly Gate straight down, soon encountered a fork in the road, the right leads to 16:08 encountered a fork in the road. Choose to go straight.
At 16:24 you arrive at the stone monument at Soaring Cliff Reservoir.
At 16:26, you reach the Crow Ridge Visitor Center. Here is a strange place, tourists to the Crow's Nest, scenic environmental protection vehicles directly to the visitor center, while tourists returning downhill, you must be along the visitor center of the asphalt road down about 500 meters to get on the car. Along the way are some stores, it is estimated that the scenic area in order to take care of the business of the stores, specially let the tourists walk a few hundred meters more. If that's the case, it really should be demeaned.
Sitting in the car all the way to the mountain gate, along the way there are a number of attractions, because we have to take the night bus back to Beijing, did not get off to see, are some temples and so on.
16:40 scenic spot environmental protection vehicle in the purple palace parking pull, not under. Zixiao Palace is located in the northeast of Tianzhu Peak, built in Ming Yongle eleven years (1413), is one of the more complete preservation of Wudang Mountain Palace. The main attractions are Dragon and Tiger Hall, Ten Square Hall, Zixiao Hall, Jiayin Cedar, Parents Hall, East Palace, West Palace, Prince Rock and so on. Near the Purple Night Palace is the Wudang Mountain Martial Arts Institute.
16:55 scenic environmental protection vehicle in the elimination of the Valley stop pulling passengers, did not get off. The free valley is a canyon leading to the mountains, the scenery is okay, there are mountains and water and bridges and trees and flowers, if you are lucky, you can also see the monkeys, the free valley is about a dozen kilometers, all the way up to the Qiongtai Zhongguang there. It is said that tourists usually only enter the valley about 300 meters to see the monkeys and return.
17:00 scenic spot environmental protection vehicle in Prince Slope stop pulling passengers, not under. Prince slope backed by the lion mountain, facing the thousands of feet of the valley, the right side of the Tianchi, when it rains waterfalls thousands of feet, the left for the next eighteen plates, so the road such as the belt floating. According to legend, the prince cultivation will not be strong, want to go down the mountain to return to secularism, meet basm to pestle and mortar after the enlightenment, back to the mountain in this bitter cultivation, so here is called back to the true view. Known as the "mirage" of the ancient architecture of the Prince's Slope, in the Ming Yongle ten years (1412) built by imperial decree. Qing Kangxi first year (1662), twenty-three years, twenty-nine years had three times to rebuild, now basically maintain the scale of the year, is the Wudang Mountain architectural complex in a larger unit. From a distance, it looks like a piece of hibiscus and emerald waves, and from a close view, the red wall is like a moon appendage around the immortal que. One of the five cloud building for the wooden structure, hard mountain roof, small green tile roof, lifting the beam type wooden frame, according to the rock wall and built 5 floors. The top floor has a beam square 12, overlapping stacked shelves, under a column support, well-calculated, which is a masterpiece of ancient wood construction, "a column of twelve beams", but also the Prince's Slope is known as a scenic spot.
17:15 arrive at the gate. In the fast to the door of the asphalt road on the right, there is a piece of open area, if you want to avoid the ticket, you can come in from here, just can not take the scenic environmentally friendly car, you need to walk up to the scenic area can be transferred to the environmentally friendly car, such as Prince Slope and other places, but the distance is quite far. Here there are other donkeys to avoid a ticket route, and cited here: first to the six Liping (near Wudang Mountain), or to the mouth of Artemisia, about 4 kilometers to the entrance to the Wulong Highway, above the elevated railroad bridge, the Wulong Highway is along the river, 5.5 kilometers to the village of Lujiazhai, there is a bridge, the highway to the left over the bridge to the back around the mountain. Without going over the bridge, take the path to the left of the village up the mountain, straight ahead. About 35 minutes and can see the highway, still go straight, from the hut wall through, 5 minutes to reach the Department of horse peaks, and the highway will meet, there is a monument on the right, turn right down the highway in front of the shortcut, below the highway can be seen, about 10 minutes and the highway will meet, to the right, along the highway, the highway left below the ruins of the Renwai Guan, only a foundation, about 15 minutes after a corner, there is a monument on the right side of the engraving "Butterfly Valley", continue for about 20 minutes, at this time Renwei Guan has been behind the roadside, there are a few families, on the right side of the house, turn left off the highway, downhill along the ravine, began to climb the mountain. About 25 minutes to reach the halfway up the mountain, there are countless stones, the left side of the end of the road, and then up, the front can be seen in a small temple, which is Yin Xianyan (at this time to ask for directions), to the left, in a small fork in the road to the right up the mountain, over the mountain on the right side of the mountain down the mountain, there are ruins of the house foundation on the side of the road, and then over the mountain from the side of the hut through the side of the mountain, see there are people (ask for directions), the front down the mountain and then up another mountain, the mountain road has steps, is an ancient sacred path, about 5 kilometers to the Wulonggung The trail is about 5 kilometers to Wulonggong. After playing in Wulonggung, take the old road to Nanyan. The old road from Wulonggong to Nanyan is about 12-13 kilometers, and the whole journey is expected to take 4 hours. Passing through Huayang Rock, extra horse harnessed by the side of a team, Haewon, Zhongwon and Shangwon. From Wulonggong find a guide to lead the way, after about 70 minutes, go to the right, there are large dripping rocks, down and then to the right across the small river, into the woods to the right hiking, about 70 minutes to finally see the TV tower of the South Rock again, walk for another 10 minutes to see a farmer's house, the left back up the mountain - about 40 minutes to reach the North Heavenly Gate, you can see the many temples of the South Rock, and then walk for about 15 minutes to reach the Nanyan Palace.
From the Wudang Mountain gate, it is perfectly possible to walk 1 kilometer to the Wudang Mountain Railway Station to take the 18:18 Shiyan-Beijing West train back to Beijing, arriving at Beijing West at 12:53 on the second day. I chose to go to the Shiyan Railway Station to take the 19:48 Chongqing-Beijing West T10, the next day 10:54 to arrive in Beijing West.
Friends waited for me at the gate of Wudang Mountain, drove to Shiyan at 18:05, and ate dinner at Benmeifang. This is a local chain of restaurants, because of the low price and good quality, business is very prosperous. The baked catfish with sauce, big harvest and homemade vermicelli are all very special. If you have a chance to go you can give it a try.
19:48 from Shiyan Railway Station to take T10 (Chongqing-Beijing West)
July 15:
10:54 train arrives at Beijing West Railway Station, ending the trip to Wudang Mountain.
Important tips:
1, along the way some sections of the stone guardrail, there are a lot of bedbugs and so on, climbing support lending strength must pay attention to.
2, into the Wudang Mountain Scenic Area before taking the environmental protection car, be sure to ask the car's specific destination, so as not to sit in the wrong direction.
3, Wudang Mountain, some Taoist temples are not very generous Taoist, such as the Chaotian Palace Taoist, see tourists talk to you about the face, inducing you to fortune-telling. Don't believe it, it's all a scam.
4, Wudang Mountain summer rain, more humid, pay attention to bring rain gear.