Siming Shan 四明山 is the name of the mountain areas by my hometown, which probably has the best-preserved ancient plantation in east China. With the highest peak at over 1,000m and many incredible bamboo forests, monuments, plaques, and waterfalls in it, Siming Shan is responsible for my earliest hiking memories and is where I start.
I always know I should launch a series about all the seriously unusual or just simply ordinary places I have visited in China. It could be about a little-known village where you can adventure into virgin forests and able to dine and chit chat at the locals’ houses; it could be a story of a decades-old breakfast stall hidden in a quiet little alley in Beijing that is able to tell much about the city’s past; or there could be an episode about a gentrified neighborhood in Chengdu where locals love to hate.
I will try to update as often as I can.
