When you get the local guide map, you have two choices, either from rear part or the front part of the mountain to get onto the top. Either of the two parts has a cable car.
The advantages from the front part: you can cover all the scenic spots of the national park, such as the greeting pine, the summit, Bright Top, then extending to the rear part. You can enjoy all the splendid landscape of the Yellow Mountain from this hiking. The disadvantage is that the hiking time is too long, usually 4 hours walking on the stone steps, with time quantum depending your walking pace and photo-taking delays. The hikers will come across with food stands every one hour, so never worry about lacking snacks or necessities while hiking on the top.
Generally, the overseas tourists get onto the top from the rear part.
They usually take the Yungu cable car from the bottom, and will check in the hotel on the top within 20 minutes' walk down steps after get-off the cable car. The highlights of the scenic spots are concentrated around your hotel and they are quite easy to reach. After watching the sunrise in front of your hotel, you can review the scenic spots and then back to Yungu cable car to get down to bottom.
It takes backpackers one hour and a half to walk down to the exit at bottom.

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