About Anhui Travel

Anhui Travel is about one Chinese province and the mountain most visitors come for. Huangshan, the Hui villages of Yixian below it, and the practical question of how those fit into a trip that started in Shanghai or Hangzhou. The test for every page is whether it changes a decision - which gate, which cable car, whether to sleep on the summit.

One province, covered properly, rather than a thin page for every Chinese destination. Most of the value here is in specifics that general China guides have no room for: which of the two mountain gates suits your route, what a summit hotel actually costs and how far ahead it books, and how to reach two UNESCO villages without a car.

Facts come from primary sources. Entry rules and the visa-free transit conditions are checked against the National Immigration Administration and the port of entry concerned, and ticket prices against the scenic area’s own published rates, which change by season. Rail times come from the operator. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.

We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email [email protected] with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.