I was conside.ably exercised in my mind what kind of car to take for this trip, but I'am not going to advertise the brand that I. finally selected, at any rate not until it has either carried me successfully the whole way, or alternatively, has irretrievably failed me, Cars, anyhow, fare tricky things: they have a habit of running all. right on Shanghai roads, when they know' there is a repair shop at every street corner, of letting one down in Jonely places; and one is not likely to find many repair garages in the wild west Nor is it any good, at this stage, attempting a description of the parations T have made for the jour-hey oF of what spare paris, stores and so forth I am taking with me Nobody having tried exactly the same kind of trip before, T have no dola to go on, and everything Is pure guess-work on my part. The whole thing is an experiment pure and simple, and nobody will be more wher surprised than myself, if it turns out successful.
Huangshan Mountains The, Huangshan (Yellow Mountains)" in southern Anhwei lie 310 miles by motor road from Shanghai and can be reached in a hard day's drive, if a very carly start is made The inst thirty miles are through beautiful mountain scenery, by a very winding road, which twists and turns up a narrow valley. It Is, better ieaveliers at very modera onantery forms & rest therefore, to do it more comfortably and make two days of it, by turning off, 45 miles beyond Hangchow, for Tiénmushan where there is a forel hotel; the second day would then leave one with a run of 144 miles. Certainly, I do not advise anyone 0 stay the night at Huichow, 36 miles from the Huangshan—as 1' did the inns there being uncomfortable, fand noisy, and the place full of lorries employed in the construction of the railway that is to link up the} Nanking-Wuhu and Nanchang-Hang-show lines.
At the foot of the Huanghsen, where the motor road comes to a dead end, there is a police post with parking place for cars. From here colies take one's luggage about hui a mile up the valley to the China Tuevel Bureau Hotel which provides comfortable foreign beds, but only Chinese food. "This hotel, however, Ig inly a kind of jumping-off place, to do the Huangshan properly ong must ascend to the top, The mountains have a great reputation for their beautiful scenery, but I think that the Huashan in Shensi is more striking. The Huang-shan ascent is the more strenuous, Iscks the variety and excitement of the other; tis a steady and rather monotonous climb up an uneomfortable stair-ease of some 6-7,000 Stone steps (so I was told: I did not count them), so narrow that one Kenocks the toes of one's boots to pieces. on them,
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