Day 1 Shanghai → Jiujiang Station → Hotel
All day
Today is the gathering day
The holiday season begins at the bustling Shanghai Station/Shanghai Hongqiao Station.
High-speed rail meeting place: Shanghai Station/Shanghai Hongqiao waiting room, see the China-TravelNote banner. For those booking other train tickets, we will meet at Jiujiang Station.
Meet at the China-TravelNote sign at Jiujiang Station. Our tour leader will be waiting for you at 3:50 PM and will escort you to your hotel promptly at 4:00 PM. (The hotel is located next to the high-speed rail station; tourists can also arrive and check in at the China-TravelNote sign on their own.)
Self-drive tour: Navigate to Jiujiang City for food and drinks. Alternatively, you can proceed to your hotel and check in with Shanghai China-TravelNote.
All high-speed rail trains are available throughout the day (tourists are recommended to choose the Shanghai-Jiujiang Station train first, and then the Lushan Station train. Tourists need to go to the hotel by themselves at Lushan Station)
Friends who arrive early can visit Jiujiang Museum, Yanshui Pavilion, Pipa Pavilion and other attractions. In the evening, you can go to the city in groups of three or five to find delicious food and see the night view of the Yangtze River Bridge.
Day 2 Jiujiang → Lushan → Guling Town → Central Route + Western Route
08:30
Around 08:30, depart for Lushan Scenic Area (0.5 hour drive)
Mount Lu, one of China's ten most famous mountains, is universally known. Known for its majestic, unique, precipitous, and beautiful natural scenery, it enjoys the reputation of "Kuang Lu is the most beautiful mountain in the world." This time, we'll explore this famous mountain on foot!
09:00
Around 09:00, start hiking from the starting point and head all the way up to the summit (this route is for hikers to cross, so if you are asked to pay your own ticket)
Around 12:00, we arrived at Guling Town, which is located in the center of Lushan Mountain. The town is famous for its various villas, with "Meilu" being the most representative. After checking in in the town, we can have lunch and make some adjustments!
13:00
Under the guidance of our tour leader, we walked the west and middle lines. The middle line focused on cultural heritage (Lushan Conference Site - Botanical Garden), while the west line (Ruqin Lake - Fairy Cave - Longshou Cliff) focused on natural scenery. (You can also purchase a scenic shuttle bus to visit each scenic spot on your own.)
5:00 PM
After the tour, we will return to Guling Town. Tourists are welcome to stroll together in the night. Dinner time is at your own discretion. The delicacies of Lushan are also not to be missed. Among them, the "Three Stones and One Tea" are particularly famous, namely, stone ear,
Stone chicken, stone fish and Lushan Cloud Tea. There are many restaurants in the town, it all depends on the tourists' preferences!
After dinner, you can also choose to visit the Lushan Romance Cinema, which is an old building built in 1897. It was originally a Christian Concordia Chapel and was converted into a cinema in 1960. It only shows one movie a day, "Lush Mountain Romance" released in 1980. The movie not only shows a love story in the 1980s, but also showcases various attractions in Lushan.
9:00 PM
Around 21:00, night falls and tourists fall asleep.
Day 3 Guling Town → Hanpokou → Wulao Peak → Sandiequan → East Gate
08:00
Early risers can voluntarily follow our tour leader to the Yangtianping sunrise point to watch the sunrise (at their own expense), or they can carpool to the Yangtianping sunrise point on their own (the sunrise time varies according to the season, please refer to the weather software for the specific sunrise time)
Around 08:00, after breakfast, we will make some adjustments and start today's hike (you can also purchase a scenic bus to visit each scenic spot on your own)
Around 13:00, we walked down the stairs to the first wonder of Lushan Mountain - Sandiequan: If you haven’t been to Sandiequan, you are not considered a Lushan tourist!
09:30
Arriving at Hanpokou, we stood on the Hanpokou mountain ridge and looked out at Hanyang Peak and Wulao Peak. The scenery was like "silver snakes dancing on the mountains and wax elephants galloping on the plains". Then we continued to set off for Wulao Peak.
11:00
Arriving at Wulao Peak, the peak is named after its five peaks, which are folded and folded to form five large "petals". The sunset looks like a lotus emerging from the water, or like five old men deep in thought, hence the name Wulao Peak. Arriving at Wulao Peak is like seeing the true face of Mount Lu.
13:00
Following the steps, we arrived at the first wonder of Lushan Mountain - San Diequan: If you haven't visited San Diequan, you haven't really been to Lushan! San Diequan Waterfall is known as "the most magnificent and beautiful karst waterfall in the world". The stream flows out from the cliff of Wulao Peak and cascades down in three levels, hence the name "San Diequan", also known as "Three-level Spring" and "Water Curtain Spring".
3:00 PM
Arrived at the end of today's hike, then headed to the high-speed rail station to return to Shanghai
It is recommended to buy a high-speed train after 16:30, recommended train G2786: 18:27 Lushan - 22:59 Shanghai
