Luoyang Laojun Mountain One-Day Tour - A crowd of holiday tourists

A day of walking till legs break 🥲
Signed up online for a one-day tour of Luoyang Laojun Mountain, gathered at the meeting point at 9:10, and arrived at Laojun Mountain about 2 and a half hours by car. We took the first-level cable car Yunjing Cableway up, started climbing from Zhongtianmen, and climbed for nearly 4 hours to reach the Golden Summit, which included time for taking photos📸+playing on the glass cableway+resting.
The glass plank road to the platform of SheShen Cliff for taking photos is very picturesque, and there are not many people, this is the key point haha🤣
The 580 steps before the Ten-Mile Gallery are the most physically demanding, climbing until legs break. There is a direct elevator from the Ten-Mile Gallery to the Golden Summit, 40 yuan/person. After climbing these hundreds of steps, most of the rest is flat. People who can't climb the mountain⛰️ can take the second-level cableway directly to the Golden Summit.
We didn't see the sea of clouds☁️ that day, it's a bit of a pity~
There are really a lot of people traveling during the New Year's holiday, we climbed to the Golden Summit and couldn't squeeze into the Golden Summit, because everyone was waiting for the lights to turn on, most people were squeezed at the platform of the Taoist Mansion. The lights turned on at 5:20, maybe it wasn't completely dark yet, personally, I didn't find it very amazing. Either wait until it's dark, the lights are more obvious before returning, but can't catch the time to leave for the one-day tour.
It is recommended to wait for the lights at the platform leading to the exit and the Peak Forest Cableway, because after the lights are on, there are really too many people leaving, all rushing to leave at 7:40 in the evening. Otherwise, it's hard to squeeze into the return channel.
We left to line up for the Peak Forest Cableway and the first-level cableway and waited for nearly 2 hours to get down the mountain, there were too many people!!! If you take the first-level cableway Yunjing Cableway, you also need to take the Yunjing Cableway when you leave, the same goes for the Zhongtian Cableway.
I sincerely do not recommend coming to Laojun Mountain during public holidays, too many people, the experience is very poor, there are also many people descending when climbing up, it's just a jam...

Post by silas_atticuswinterbourne | Jan 16, 2024