It has been one of my dreams to hike along the Hui-Hang Ancient Path as I have seen a lot of wonderful pictures on the internet. Finally I did it on last weekend.
The Path is between Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, starting from Fuling town of Jixi county and ending at Maxiao village of Lin'an. It used to the most important path to link these two provinces in ancient times especially for businessmen around 1850. They delivered messages and goods everyday, thus a few very famous richmen were made at that time, Hu Xue Yan was the most famous of them.
Let's get to the point, I firstly took an overnight train K156 from Guilin to Jixi county, after 18 hrs 31', I arrived at the small railway station early in the morning at 5am. I took a taxi to the bus station to the rest of the group, and got on the bus then headed for the Fuling town. The starting point of the Ancient Path was highlighted on the walls so you would not miss it. Bypassing the black and white houses and the green fields, we started to climb the mountains with a very clean stream on our right side.
The path got narrow and rugged after the first twenty minutes warm-up, most of us backpacked heavily and some girls had to stop from time to time to catch their breath.
(to be continued)
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ReplyDeleteThis is a great adventure of yours climbing mountains and witnessing the beauty of the nature is one of the best. Hope to continue this post.
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