Day 1 Chizhou High-speed Railway Station → Jiuhua Mountain Full Day → Chizhou High-speed Railway Station
·morning
Meet your tour guide at Chizhou High-Speed Railway Station at 8:50 AM (the exact time will be agreed upon in advance) and take the free shuttle bus to Jiuhua Mountain Visitor Center at 9:00 AM (approximately 40 minutes).
Around 09:50, arrive at the Jiuhuashan Visitor Center and transfer to the scenic area shuttle bus to Jiuhua Street (about 30 minutes).
Around 10:20, visit the Huacheng Temple, the founding temple of Jiuhua Mountain. Located in the core area of Jiuhua Mountain Scenic Area, it is said in Buddhist scriptures that it "points to the ground and transforms into a city." It is one of the nine national key temples in Jiuhua Mountain and is also the location of the Jiuhua Mountain History and Cultural Relics Museum (the visit lasts about 40 minutes).
11:20 Take the cable car (fees are at your own expense) or walk (about 40 minutes on foot, 5 minutes by cable car) to visit Baisui Palace. Baisui Palace, also known as Wannian Zen Temple, was built in the Ming Dynasty and is a national key temple. It enshrines the body of the Ming Dynasty monk Wuxia, the "Bodhisattva of the Body of Responses", and has the Hall of Five Hundred Arhats (tour time about 1 hour) and views the natural sleeping Buddha.
·afternoon
13:00 Take the cable car (cable car fee is at your own expense) or walk (about 30 minutes) down the mountain. Lunch is at your own expense.
14:00 After lunch, visit Dizang Zen Temple (tour time about 1 hour), where the body of Monk Ciming discovered in 1995 is enshrined. Visit the Flesh Hall, where the body of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is enshrined in the pagoda.
15:20 After the tour, take the scenic shuttle bus back to the tourist service center at the foot of the mountain, and take the free shuttle bus to Chizhou High-speed Railway Station at 16:20 to disband.
