The popular UNESCO World Heritage tourist attraction and the masterpiece of nature, Huangshan Mountain is renowned for its beauty and attracts millions of visitors each year. This scenic peak is getting blemished because of a large number of tourists. To allow the vegetation to recover from damages made by tourists, Chinese tourism authorities have decided to keep it closed for three years.
Also, known as Yellow Mountain, Huangshan is a marvel within an area of 154 square kilometers where there is a crowd of peaks. Most of them have names indicating the shapes they resemble. When it is cloudy the pinnacles loom in mists as if they were visionary and in sunshine they unfold in all their majesty and splendor.
The peaks change their color and appearance with the alternating seasons. While in spring blooming flowers decorate the slopes with different color and fill the valleys with fragrance, in summer you see these peaks rising one upon another. Autumn dresses the mountains in red and purple. Winter turns them into a world of frost and ice with silver rocks everywhere.
This endless and spellbinding beauty of Huangshan Mountain has attracted many people from all over the world. China has among UNESCO’s largest number of listed sites and their management has sometimes come under criticism, let’s hope this step taken forward by Chinese tourism authorities proves to be rewarding.
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