Taihang Mountain

The Taihang mountain range stretches from Shijiazhuang in the north to the Luoyang in the south covering three provinces (Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan). It's famous yellow mountains will remind you of Huangshan if you have been there. The geology is similar I suppose. The bold inscription attempt is for geology and in fact there are many UNESCO geoparks in this mountain range already, as well as several unique species that live here that you wouldn't see as a tourist and are probably not seen by the inspection team when they come either. You get to see macaques though... 

I have been to Zhangshiyan, or cliff, a long time ago. It is the Canyonlands of China but not quite as spectacular as the Utah counterpart.

My recent trip was to Yuntaishan which I would say is the highlight of the Taihang mountains. To get here I took a G-train Zhengzhou (easily combined with other sites if you haven't done them such as Anyang, Luoyang) and onto Jiaozuo. There aren't many G-trains going to the latter from Zhengzhou East so I had to ride a specific one else exchange to the other station in Zhengzhou which is far away and even then the trains to Jiaozuo don't go late in the evening. I stayed near the train station overnight. All buses in town are 1 RMB to get around if you don't want to walk at all.

The next morning I took the #3 bus to Yuntaishan. The main bus …