With Nicholas visiting Shanghai on a summer holiday this was a good chance to re-vistit Yellow Mountain - this time by taking the more adventurous overnight sleeper train to Tunxi. The train departed Shanghai station platform 2 at 15:08 hrs. The sleeping accomodation consisted of open sections with 6 bunks, three on either side. I had the middle bunk on the right hand side and my only memory of it was that the person on the top bunk was eating ground nuts, and there was a constant shower of bits of the outer shell coming down like snow!

We alighted the train at Tunxi and had a car waiting to take us to the foot of Yellow Mountain for the cable car. We had a reservation for one night at the Yu Pinglou Hotel, fabulously situated amongst the peaks.

Whilst this was a fascinating experience, we were not sorry that we had decided to fly back to Shanghai!