The Huang Shan mountains, east of Shanghai, are China's most popular natural tourist attraction. Each year, around 4 million visitors take the newly-installed Austrian cable cars to explore the mountains. It is as popular as the Grand Canyon and is of similar size, covering an area of 250 square miles with over 77 distinct peaks over 1000m. The highest peak is The Lotus Flower Peak at 1.864m above sea level. Apart from the mountain peaks, visitors come to sea the famous 'cloud sea' and the 30 named pines that cling precariously to to the karst limestone rock.

In Huang Shan the sinuous...