{"id":201,"date":"2019-06-09T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?p=201"},"modified":"2019-06-09T13:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T13:18:40","slug":"hiking-tour-in-the-qinling-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Hiking tour in the Qinling mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been fascinated by the view of the Qinling mountain range ( \u00a0<span lang=\"zh-Hans\">\u79e6\u5cad<\/span> )approaching from the Wei river valley since I have first seen it in the year 1998. The visit of the Taoist temple Lou Guan Tai ( \u697c\u89c2\u53f0\u5bfa ) in that year is unforgettable for me, as it was remote, pristine and atmospheric (unfortunately the place has meanwhile developed to a major and commercial tourist spot). Since then, I have returned to that area, which is close to the hometown of my wife, every one or two years. But it took me until last week before I had the opportunity for a longer hike in that mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1123-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1123-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1123-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1123-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1123-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>View to Qin Ling mountains from Wei river valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We did park the car at a restaurant after entering the Qinling mountains in a narrow valley on a small local road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1179-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1179-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1179-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1179-1-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1179-1-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Trout served in a small restaurant in the Qin Ling mountains<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The hike takes with breaks approximately 6 hours and is 10 km long (round trip), with 1100 m climbing up and down. The path is narrow and well visible, but not marked or signposted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1173-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"213\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?attachment_id=213\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1173-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1173-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1173-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1173-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1175-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"214\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?attachment_id=214\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1175-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1175-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1175-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1175-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1176-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"215\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?attachment_id=215\" class=\"wp-image-215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1176-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1176-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1176-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1176-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1178-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"216\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?attachment_id=216\" class=\"wp-image-216\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1178-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1178-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1178-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_1178-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Path to Guan Yin temple<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who want to do the same hike, here are the coordinates of major waypoints. If you want the GPX files, please drop me a short note.<\/p>\n<p>N34 02.369 E108 32.579 Exit on Expressway G5 (Xi&#8217;an to Hanzhong), take road S107 towards West.<\/p>\n<p>N34 03.887 E108 24.769 542 m Leave road S107 and turn South on narrow road into a mountain valley.<\/p>\n<p>N33 59.962 E108 24.460 849 m Park car at restaurant, start of hiking. Direction is East-Southeast, first 50 m are stairs. The path is first following the small river and later steeply ascending the mountain ridge.<\/p>\n<p>N33 59.395 E108 25.749 1738 m Small and lonely hiking path is merging with a more populated path coming from North (see comment later). Continue on that path uphill towards South until you reach the crest and continue on the crest further South. Don&#8217;t miss that turnoff on your way back.<\/p>\n<p>N33 59.034 E108 25.695 1959 m Guanyin temple ( <strong><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u89c2\u97f3\u5c71<\/span><\/strong> )<\/p>\n<p>N33 58.920 E108 25.553 1936 m End of path at another small temple. Go back the same way from here.<\/p>\n<p>We were told that the Guanyin temple can be also reached, with less climbing, from a higher starting point which we had visited three days earlier. Both ways merge at the forking point mentioned above. I add here the coordinates for the alternative approach:<\/p>\n<p>N34 03.595 E108 28.254 529 m Leave main road S107 here and drive on narrow road uphill.<\/p>\n<p>N34 02.181 E108 27.304 934 m We left the car here and started hiking. The road continues however to the area of the next temple.<\/p>\n<p>N34 02.255 E108 26.824 1115 m Temple<\/p>\n<p>N34 02.353 E108 26.807 1104 m Another temple with nice view to Xi&#8217;an and the Wei river valley.<\/p>\n<p>N34 01.418 E108 26.503 1203 m We stopped hiking here and turned back to the car; it should be possible to continue to the Guanyin temple from her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been fascinated by the view of the Qinling mountain range ( \u00a0\u79e6\u5cad )approaching from the Wei river valley since I have first seen it in the year 1998. The visit of the Taoist temple Lou Guan Tai ( \u697c\u89c2\u53f0\u5bfa ) in that year is unforgettable for me, as it was remote, pristine and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eHiking tour in the Qinling mountains\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVLvU-3f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.schaeferwo.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}