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2024 Loufan Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in November)
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Huanggu Mountain, Loufan County, Shanxi
⛰Huanggu Mountain, Loufan County, Shanxi
📍Detailed Address: Huanggu Mountain Camping Base, Loufan County
🚗Transportation Guide: To reach Huanggu Mountain, you need to hike for 9 kilometers, which is considered an entry-level hiking route.
🕙Opening Hours: All day
💰Ticket Price: Free
🌟Highlights: Huanggu Mountain is located in Gaijiazhuang Township, Loufan County. It is said that during the Jin Dynasty, a princess fled here to escape a family scandal and became a nun, hence the name Huanggu Mountain.
📌Tips: For safety, during the hiking process, all individuals should carry a trash bag in their backpack. In principle, no open flames are allowed during the hike, smoking is prohibited, and outdoor fire use is strictly controlled.
Autumn is here, time for a spontaneous hiking trip!
Shanxi people also have their own Altay
Yunding Mountain is located in Loufan County, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. It is the highest peak of Taiyuan City, with an altitude of 2708 meters. It features a unique alpine meadow landscape. The mountaintop is flat and vast, covered with colorful wildflowers. There are herds of cattle and sheep around, and windmills on the mountaintop, making it feel like being in Altay, Xinjiang. At the foot of the mountain, you can camp anywhere comfortably~
✅ Itinerary
Yunding Mountain is about 100 kilometers away from downtown Taiyuan, and it takes about 2 hours to drive there. It is recommended to set out in the morning to have enough time to play.
📣 Ways to Play
There are two ways to go up and down the mountain: horse riding & hiking
🐴 Horse riding takes about 1 hour, which saves time and effort, but it is more expensive. The horses are brought by the villagers nearby, and they tend to ask for a high price. You need to bargain, and the later you go, the fewer horses there are, and the higher the price!
🚶♂️ Hiking takes 2-3 hours. The roads are all natural gravel and loess paths. Hiking is relatively tiring, but I think it's still okay!
🌟 Tips for Playing
1️⃣ You can park for free at the foot of the mountain, just park by the roadside. The temperature at the mountaintop is low, it gets colder as you go up, so it is recommended to bring a thin coat!
2️⃣ Try to climb the mountain in the morning when there are fewer people and it's easier to control the time, to avoid descending too late.
3️⃣ Prepare sunscreen and essential balm, etc. There is a lot of horse manure along the way, and many insects.
Shanxi! How many more surprises do you have that I don't know about
I really didn't expect there to be such beautiful scenery around Taiyuan!
It really is a budget version of Xinjiang's Altay✅
📍It only takes 2h to drive to Yunding Mountain by navigation
The roads are all asphalt and easy to drive on, and the car can reach the foot of the mountain directly. You can start climbing after passing through the iron gate!
⌚Best time to visit: June to August
⏰Duration of visit: 1 day
It takes about 1 hour to ride a horse up the mountain, and about 2 hours on foot. Leave plenty of time to take photos and check in at the top of the mountain! It's completely feasible to go there and back from Taiyuan in one day!
⛰️Ways to go up the mountain
You can choose to hike or ride a horse
🚶♂️Hiking is tiring, but you can experience the more primitive forest.
🏇Riding a horse is quite novel, and it saves more energy for playing at the top of the mountain.
🌟Tips for visiting
1️⃣Yunding Mountain is semi-developed, and the overall infrastructure is still not sufficient, for example, there are no public toilets at the foot of the mountain, and none along the way, so don't drink too much water, otherwise, there's nowhere to go to the toilet.
2️⃣Once you reach the foot of the mountain, there's no cell phone signal at all, and there's no signal throughout the climb.
3️⃣Bring some mineral water, snacks, and energy drinks.
4️⃣Bring sunglasses, a sun hat, and a windbreaker (it's quite windy on the mountain).
5️⃣The road is full of cow and horse dung, it's really everywhere, all flies, and it smells terrible. Even at the top of the mountain, it's all dung, and it's really hard to find a spot that's completely free of dung.
6️⃣Many roads are gravel roads, it's okay going up the mountain, but it's really slippery when going down, so be careful and wear comfortable shoes.
I won't allow there to be people from Taiyuan who don't know about this place
📍Location: Yunding Mountain, Loufan County, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province
🎫Ticket: Free
🅿️Parking: Free
🚗Transport: It is recommended to drive by yourself, approximately 110 kilometers, about 2 hours' drive from Taiyuan, with a round-trip toll of 34💰 on the expressway segment.
✅Preparations
1️⃣Suitable clothing, the temperature on the mountain is lower in the evening, just bring a light jacket.
2️⃣Wear comfortable shoes for walking.
3️⃣Bring sun protection.
4️⃣Bring a sufficient amount of water and food.
📣Tour Route
After arriving at the iron fence gate entrance of Yunding Mountain, stroll up along the winding mountain road. There are pedestrian paths and horse riding paths, it is recommended to take the pedestrian path for walking as it is shorter. Along the way, you can enjoy the dense forest and rich vegetation, and feel the freshness and tranquility of nature.
When you reach the top of the mountain, you can enjoy the vast alpine meadow scenery, as if you are in the midst of a green ocean, under the blue sky and white clouds, it's incredibly beautiful. Here you can take photos and check in to your heart's content, leaving behind wonderful memories.
🌟Tour tips
1️⃣The hike up the mountain is about 4 kilometers, and if you're fast, you can reach the top in about an hour!
2️⃣Pay attention to safety when hiking, especially on some steep sections.
3️⃣Check the weather in advance to avoid going in bad weather.
Shanxi has its own little Switzerland
🧭Navigate to: Yunding Mountain
🚗It's only a 2h drive from Taiyuan~
You can ride a horse 🐎 or walk 🚶♀️ to go up the mountain, about three kilometers~
Enjoy the scenery along the way 🌲 and try the sweet and sour sea buckthorn berries you find on the roadside~
Those with dogs can also take them out for a trip, it's quite pleasant 😌
It's a good place for a short weekend trip around the area!
Recommended: 🌟🌟🌟
Tips: There is only a toilet at the entrance of Yunding Mountain, no restaurants or places to buy things, so you need to prepare in advance, you can bring some snacks to replenish energy~
Yes! In Taiyuan!! Yunding Mountain is stunning!!!
Taiyuan, Loufan County, Yunding Mountain
The scenery at the foot and the top of the mountain is really beautiful!
These are all views from the top of the mountain
A large expanse of grassland is very clean!
Why go to Xinjiang, Switzerland! Shanxi has too many attractions worth visiting!
It takes about two hours to depart from Taiyuan and ride a horse to climb the mountain, about an hour's journey
The view from the top is worth it!
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