Guangdong Thousand-Mile Mountains 3: Lotus Mountain in Huizhou/Shanwei - A Memorable Overnight Stay!
Location: At the junction of Huizhou District, Huizhou City and HaiFeng County
Time: April 2011
Altitude: 1336 meters
Route: New Town, Huizhou County, Bush Bridge Entrance - Lotus Temple - Lotus Mountain Summit - HaiFeng Fiwala Temple Workshop Overnight - Second Day to HaiFeng JingMing Temple direction
That was the Lotus Mountain climbed in 2011, and I still had a smartphone at that time, so this satellite trajectory map was found online.
Lotus Mountain's altitude is 1336 meters, located at the junction of Huizhou City, Huizhou District and City HaiFeng County, it is the first peak belonging to both cities.
A small temple on the road
There are many who often come to climb Lotus Mountain, so the footprints are very obvious.
Fork in the road
There are many signposts along the way
It was 15:03 in the afternoon when I arrived at Lotus Temple
Is that mountain head over there KarziDong?
That afternoon I only saw one person climbing Lotus Mountain
The ordinary backpack I used to climb mountains that year was very small
There are many climbing routes on Lotus Mountain, you can come from Huizhou and HaiFeng directions, or cross from KarziDong Mountain Head, if you follow the White Card Lotus Line, it will take two days and one night.
About 16:00 I reached the summit, and I didn't start to descend the original route until about an hour later
In the afternoon I came down from Lotus Mountain to Lotus Temple, and it was almost dark, because I didn't have a tent at that time, so I asked those two people if they could accommodate me for a night, they said they couldn't, and asked me to leave as soon as possible before it was dark.
I had to leave quickly along the main road, but it was less than 10 minutes before it was completely dark, so I had to look for the road with my phone screen lit up.
Road sign
I walked about 10 minutes and saw a house in front of me, with a faint light, I got closer and saw that it was a workshop. Inside the wooden shed there was an elderly man, I spoke while gesturing with my hand, and he probably understood my meaning, so he arranged for me to sleep in that shed, and he went to live in another one himself. He probably thought I was hungry from climbing, so he brought out the remaining food for me to eat.
The temperature on the mountain was a little low, and I was woken up multiple times at night because I was freezing.
My overnight workshop
The next morning I saw that this workshop was the Lotus Mountain Fiwala Ridge XuanTianShangDi Temple Construction Committee built, the slope high above was being built.
After seeing the elderly man who had been staying at the temple, I hurried down to HaiFeng YunBingShan in HaiFeng County.
If I had gone to climb Lotus Mountain nearby in HaiFeng County, I would like to visit the Fiwala Ridge XuanTianShangDi Temple again…
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