Heart-Shaped Box

While in China, I took a train trip from Guangzhou to Shaoguan. From Shaoguan, we took a 45 minute bus ride to Danxiashan Geopark. We stayed two nights at a hotel at the entrance of the park. I wish we had stayed another night. There was a lot to see at this park. Mount Danxia is a mountainous area with all kind of rock outcrops and incredible cliffs. Some of rock formations are a bit unusual as the pictures will show. On the cliffs and mountain tops, there were Buddhist temples. The trails or stairs to these temples were quite impressive. The views were hazy, but I still took a lot of pictures. The pictures will be divided into two posts. Here are the pictures for part one.

View of Danxiashan Geopark from the Hotel Room

Cable Car to the top of Elder Peak

View of the direction we will walk on Elder Peak

Stairs in the rock

Me and haze

Snow Grotto Temple (First built during the Ming Dynasty. Additional structures added later.)

Snow Grotto Temple

Snow Grotto Temple

Renhua River

A Pavilion on top of the mountain

Leaving the Pavilion

Going Down

Still going down

More stairs down

Looking back up the stairs

Down...

Stairs, Pavilion at the top. On the left, the rock has a symbol that means happiness for marriage

Continuing...

The cliffs from near the bottom

Looking back at the stairs and pavilion

The trail signs called this the Female Rock

Zoom view of the Pavilion and stairs

Full view

At the bottom

Going to a boat launch to ride back to a village for lunch.