A trip to Yandang Mountain Geological Park, China
While I was visiting my parents in China this year, mom and I went to Yandang Mountain Geological Park for vacation. Yandang is located in Zhejiang Province, China, and is about, by train, 5 hours away from my hometown Zhenjiang. We spent three days there. It was rainy but not too bad.
Visiting Yandang was more or less a random idea when I searched for interesting places nearby. Dad was too busy, so I planned to take mom out for a vacation every year. Last year we climbed the Huang Mountain, which was too exhausting for my mom who was over 50. I had been hoping the Yandang mountain would be more relaxing, and it was. Most places were accessible by bus in the park plus a bit of hiking and climbing.
The Yandang mountain is a volcano in the Mesozoic volcanic zone in eastern China. Massive rhyolitic magma erupted somewhat 120 million years ago and formed the mountains.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/RI030539.jpg)
Forest in the valley. Fresh after the rain.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/P1090772.jpg)
The roof of a temple in the mountains. There are quite a few old temples in the Yandang mountain, many of which were build in caves centries ago.
![Walking on a street in San Juan, after dinner.](/images/photography/full/DSC00826.jpg)
A stone bridge over a creek.
![On the beach at night.](/images/photography/full/RI030556.jpg)
Twin caves formed by collapsing from beneath.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/DSC00952.jpg)
A stone lion.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/RI030608.jpg)
A trail into the forest in Lingfeng Park.
![San Juan.](/images/photography/full/P1090714.jpg)
A trail built on cliff! I wonder how they made it…
![San Felipe del Morro Fortress, a 16th-century citadel.](/images/photography/full/P1090712.jpg)
In the forest in Lingyan Park.
![San Felipe del Morro Fortress, a 16th-century citadel.](/images/photography/full/P1090701.jpg)
The Dalongqiu fall, the highest waterfall in China (197 m).
![On the beach at night.](/images/photography/full/DSC00947.jpg)
An old man meditating in the Guanyin cave
![San Felipe del Morro Fortress.](/images/photography/full/DSC00804.jpg)
Mom on the chain bridge.
![San Felipe del Morro Fortress.](/images/photography/full/DSC00919.jpg)
Inside the Guanyin cave. The Guanyin cave is inside a fracture of a mountain. The cave is 113 m high and 76 m deep. The temple built inside, in year 1106, has nine floors.
![Near San Felipe del Morro Fortress.](/images/photography/full/DSC00933.jpg)
Candles in front of the Guanyin statue in the cave.
![Near San Felipe del Morro Fortress.](/images/photography/full/RI030593.jpg)
View from inside the Guanyin cave.
![Near San Felipe del Morro Fortress.](/images/photography/full/RI030502.jpg)
View from our hotel balcony
![Seven Seas Beach.](/images/photography/full/DSC00841.jpg)
Moss on a tree branch.
![Seven Seas Beach.](/images/photography/full/DSC00969.jpg)
A trail in the Lingfeng park.
![Seven Seas Beach.](/images/photography/full/RI030571.jpg)
My favorate shot of this trip. A combination of everything in Yandang, mountains, falls, forests…