[NewTrail/MayHolida­y] StrawSandals Peak-Hiking&Adv­enture Trail^^

HikingLovers--When West Meets East,
Keep Calm and Hike On!!
Keep Calm and Adventure On!!
EXPLORING & ADVENTURING LIFE!!

WHY YOU SHOULD BOOK THIS TRIP
HIGHLIGHTS

- Beautiful scenery and ridge like Yellow Mountain, but less crowded!!
- Nice hiking in the forest
- Nature, hiking and fresh air
- New Hiking Friends from all of the world

DESTINATION

Straw Sandals Peak is located in West of Tongkeng Valley, Anhui, with beautiful scenery of Luohan Peak. The mountains here have many awesome rocks with beautiful trees and ridge like Yellow Mountain.

[You can climb this rock, but dont have to]

ABOUT THIS TRIP
Time: Apr 28th night - 30th

Trip Information

** Difficulty: Easy 6/10 [Note: Trails not long, just some parts are quite rocky, need to climb with both your hands and feet. We will bring rope and some equipments, but it's not technical, will be awesome fun adventure]
** Transportation:
- Private bus from/to Shanghai
** Meetup Time/Point
- Meetup Time: Friday night 19:30
- Meetup Point: Exit 3/5 Line 1/4 Shanghai INDOOR Stadium Metro Station
** Accommodations
- Local Guesthouse in sharing room [2-3 beds/room]
- Can choose Camping if you want (Please bring your own camping gears or rent with us, 60RMB/double tent for a weekend trip, bring your own sleeping bag)
** Hiking Leaders:
- Silver from HikingLovers Outdoor Club
**Brief of Silver
# Advanced Mountaineering Instructor of CMA [Chinese Mountaineering Association]
# Wilderness Advanced First Aider of WMA [Wilderness Medical Associates]
# High-elevation Guide of Sichuan Mountaineering Association
# Leave No Trace Trainer
# Advanced Open Water Diver/Rescue Diver of PADI

ITINERSARY

DAY 1 // Friday Night after work
19:30 Private Van/Bus Shanghai Indoor Stadium, Exit 3/5
22:00 About 10 mins stop on the high-way service station
01:00 Arrival at the guesthous [Might be later depends on the traffic]
[Note: according to team/weather/unexpected reasons, itinersary maybe have some change]


DAY 2 // Saturday
07:00 Get up and breakfast
08:00 Need about 30mins driving and Start hiking [While hiking, only need to carry your lunch and water ]
10:00 Keep calm and hike on!
12:00 Find a nice place for Lunch
13:00 Keep calm and hike on, Nature is beautiful and fresh..
17:00 Arrived at the guesthouse, take a short rest
18:30 Time for dinner, local food
19:30 Enjoy the night and bonfire under the moon and stars or go to bed! haha..

DAY 3 // Sunday

07:00 Get up and breakfast
08:00 Let’s go hiking
09:00 Keep calm and hike on!
12:00 Finish hiking and go for lunch ^^
13:30 Return back Shanghai
19:00 Arrival at Shanghai and see you all next time

COST

PRICE: 850RMB
*** 900RMB if less than 18ppl including 18ppl;
*** Price already included the accommdations and most meals, Max 30 people plus trips leaders)
Deposit: 300RMB should be paid at least 3 days in advance.
*** 50RMB less for Early Bird paid deposit 20 days in advance.
*** 100RMB less for HikingLovers VIP {Check here for more details about being our VIP}

Price INCLUDED
*** All the transportation fees and driver’s allowances
*** All the organizing fees and leaders’ allowances
*** Utility equipment and first aid
*** Outdoor insurance
*** Local Guide
*** 2 nights accommdations
*** 2 breakfasts; 1 dinner; 1 lunch

Price NOT INCLUDED

*** Alcoholic drinks [Guesthouse can buy beers; If you wanna other alcohol, bring it by yourself from Shanghai]
*** Personal shopping and other cost not mentioned above
*** Invoice (6% extra if you need an invoice)


EQUIPMENTS
1 Must Equipments
- Hiking Shoes
- 1 lunch on route (like nuts, fruits, bread and some energy food. Better to bring from Shanghai)
- Sports Clothes/Towel/Shower gel/Shampoo

2 Optional Equipments
- Sun-glasses/Sun-cream
- Hiking Pole (Suggested)
- Headlight
- Camping Gears (Tent, mattress and sleeping bag)
- Raincoats

BOOK NOW
1 Provide us your personal information for insurance to our Email: [email protected] or just send via WeChat directly
- Full Name (If Chinese, please send your name in Chinese)
- Gender
- Nationality
- Date of Birth(DD-MM-YY)
- Passport Number or ID Number
- Phone Number
- Emergency contact name and phone number
2 Pay the deposit to secure your spots
- BOC/ICBC Bank Transfer/ ATM transfer
- Alipay / WeChat transfer (Easy online way for payment in China, WeChat also has English version and all the transfer are free)
- Cash on the door or delivery
3 Please contact us via the following
- WeChat: hikinglovers or hikinglovers-sh1
- Email: [email protected]
- Skype: silver_liyin
- MP: 147 8203 6532 (Silver)
- www.hikinglovers.com

Or just scan the following QR to add Silver or Silver directly if you have any questions;

CANCELLATION

- If you canceled BEFORE 5 DAYS of the departure time, all the deposit will be REFUNDED.
- If you canceled WITHIN the LAST 5 DAYS of the departure time, NO REFUND, but you can find someone to replace your seat
- HikingLovers has the right to adjust the schedule due to weather conditions and safety.

DISCLAIMER
Considering that Outdoor hiking trips have some risks and the unexpected environmental changes or other uncertainties, the organizer will buy professional outdoor insurance for all the members before the trip and also will organize rescue of any emergency on site. All the participants need to follow the organization of the trip organizer/hiking leaders/coordinators/Local guide. Otherwise you should bear your own consequences caused by your mistakes. We hereby declare that the trip organizers will not have any joint liability of the unpredictable accidents caused by Environment or any accidents caused by the participants’ mistake during the hiking trips.


ABOUT US

HikingLovers Outdoor Club was founded May 24, 2013 by a super hikinglover-Silver who enjoyed a lot of hiking in the nature! HikingLovers now turned to be a hiking club organized hiking for foreigners and English Speaking ppl living in Shanghai.We want to make the mixculture of “West meets East” . We have a group of energetic hikinglovers working as full-time/part time hiking learders from different countries. And our hiking leaders joined Chinese Mountaineering Association's professional outdoor training and first aid training. So join us to adventure the nature and challenge yourself;
HikingLovers -- West Meets East; Keep Calm and Hike on!