Wudang Shan

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Hello,

My friends and I are planing a trip to Wudang Shan in Oct 2011 and Because we're all in our fifties, we'll like to plan properly before we go, so any further info on the place such as hotel, food, clothings and tools to bring will be very much appreciated. We read some reviews stating that the cable car service to the top of the mountain sometimes doesn't works is it true? We plan to spend two nites in the hotel on top of the mountain(Tian Lu Hotel) then two nites in a hotel at the foot of the mountain(Wudang Shan Hotel) near the town, is it advisable? Please help!

Nikki_Daniel · Accepted Answer

Hi,

I have only just seen this message, I hope that this can be of some use to you. My husband and I stayed at Wudang Shan for 5 nights during September last year. We went there for Martial Arts training which you may be aware of if you wanted to visit this destination.

How do you plan on getting there?, we took a overnight train and may be able to help you with advise here. Do any of you speak Mandarin? we found communication difficult without it.

You should spend all your time in the mountain it is very beautiful. We stayed at Tian Lu Hotel and recommend it, it is basic but clean and has a good restaurant with a english menu available. It is also very close to the temples (and right next door to purple cloud temple).

The cable car has just been completely restored and was meant to re-start October 2010. It does not operate during thunderstorms which were not a problem when we were there (which is around the same time of the year you are going).

Take comfortable clothes and sneakers, there is a lot of walking to be done and a lot of stairs around the temples.

I hope that you have not canceled your trip due to lack of information. It really is worth going to! Let me know what further questions you have.

Nikki

giovanni_roberto · Answer

Hi... Nikki, I was looking for information regarding how to reach Wudang Shan your response and the reviews here are really helpull, just a question the Trains arrive in which city? is Shiyan??

Nikki_Daniel · Answer

Hi,

Glad to help with any questions you may have. The train actually stopped in Wudang, we then had a car pick us up at the train station (arranged through the martial arts school that my husband was to be taught at), they drove us to our hotel up on the mountain. This was about a 1 hour drive.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

Nikki

martinkD9093XM · Answer

Hi to all,

I plan to visit Wudang mountains next year and I have a plenty of questions of course.

Till now I was able to plan the trip till to Shiyan...

Then I am planing to go to Wundang Shan with taxi - good idea? expensive?

Did you book the hotel Tian Lu? How many days/month before you came?

And of course, I would like go up with cable car...

I dont speak mandarin and it will be my first trip to China....

Thanks a lot guys!

edo e · Answer

Hi Nikki!

I read your post with great interest. I am about to leave for China and I'll go to Wudang with my girlfriend and I wante to ask you:

Is Tian lu hotel a good place to stay? Do they speak some english?

I read that you practiced kung fu with a school there would you reccomend it? If yes which is? Thanks a lot!

Regards

Edo

Nikki_Daniel · Answer

Hi All,

In regards to getting there the train that stops directly in Wudang originates in Beijing but we got on board in Zhengzhou. Very comfortable soft sleeper train. When we left we had the school book us a car to Xian Fan where we flew to Shanghai to continue our trip. The train is the most direct and easy way to get into Wudang.

We booked the Tian Lu about a month prior, at that time there was only one person working in the front desk who knew a little english who they would rely upon to come and see us if we wanted to order something in the restaurant and they did not understand us.

Any other questions just let me know!

My husband trained in Wudang Taoist Kung Fu academy which is a very short walk from tian lu hotel. After looking at the website the masters look different (the ones we used must have left) and the rooms look to have been refurbished (although we did not stay there, I took a look around the place).

csfKuching_Sarawak · Answer

First of all, I wish to thank Nikki for all the info posted here. We've cancelled our earlier plans to Wudangshan as then we felt that the information we had is insufficient for us to make the trip then. But now with all the current info we are again in the process of making our plans again to go to Wudangshan in the coming next spring. Our love for mother nature and the beauty of Wudangshan is one of the many reasons we wanted to go and not to mention the chance to go indepth with the Gigong exercise with the Toaist priest there. I want to make this trip with my loved ones and my great friends before activity like this becomes too tedious for someone of my age. I appreciate more info as we'll be leaving from Guangzhou. We could travel from Beijing or shanghai so long as anyone who's been there could just provide us the easiest route, once again, our heartfelt thank you to all who make that effort to post up all info here regardless a question or answer, for me, it' great help rendered.

Best regards, csf Kuching .

edo e · Answer

Hi Nikki thanks a lot for your quick reply!!!

I guess I'll book the Tian lu hotel and try to contact the kung fu school you mentioned? was the training nice?

A last question how did you get to the hotel? We'll probably fly to Xiangfang because we do not have much time and was wondering if you have any idea on which is the best way to arrive from there to the hotel?

Thanks again!

eric d · Answer

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syb_loves_holidays · Answer

Hi Eric D,

I'm travelling to Beijing with my family in Oct/Nov 2012. There will be about 6 of us in total and we hope to travel to Wudang Shan. There are only 2 of us in the group who understands chinese. The others don't.

How would you recommend us to travel from Beijing to Wudang Shan?

And would you be able to recommend a car to bring all 6 of us around and a tour guide to explain and tell the history and stories of Wudang Shan?

Thank you!!

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