The day before we went to get the tickets for the bus and booked one for the next morning and neglected to book any sort of hotels, relying on turning up and finding some.... Fun!
We got up pretty early, 6.30, for the 9.05 bus which takes about 5-6 hours, the bus was not too busy which was good, and after my 23 hour bus 6 hours is ok....
After a pretty painless six hours we arrived at the back entrance to a large and mostly empty bus station in huangshan town, a couple on the bus were staying on and going straight to the mountain but alas our ticket finished here, so off we got. Huangshan town is an hours drive on the motorway from tangkou and immediately a nice man came up offering a ticket for 20 rmb, we chatted and he said come back if we needed one, a nice man. We walked into the bus station proper and found out about tickets back, (9,1.30 and 3) and then found the official way onto the small bus that would take us to tangkou.
After 40mins or so we arrived in the small village of tangkou which, twenty years ago must have been a handful of houses and nothing more, but which is now a monster of a town made mostly of hotels and overpriced restaurants! We walked around on Thursday night and the place was empty! The restaurants empty, the hotel owners outside trying to grab any business they can find. We chose one and the room seemed clean, and at 110 a night (£11) for a twin room it seemed a good deal. We booked in and walked down to the old street for food, we found a place and had an ok meal for double what it should have been, such are tourist towns I guess...
We wandered all around the town as some exercise after the long journey before retiring to the room to relax and play cards before bed.
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