Plum Blossom Mountain
Plum Blossom Moutain (Meihua Shan) is not another mountain. It is on Purple Gold Mountain, in the compounds of Ming Xiao Ling i.e. the Ming Emperor Tomb. It is next to where the Stone Animal Walkway lines the Sacred Path. The best time to see it is around the month of February (during the First Spring).
How to get there: If you’re taking a bus from the city center (e.g. #9 from Zhongshan East Road), stop at the Song Meiling Museum Stop. This is the place of the square citadel 四方城 [si4fang1cheng2]. Walk into the square citadel and turn left. You’ll then see the ticketing entrance into Stone Animal Walkway and the Ming Emperor Tomb. At the time of writing, you pay 30rmb to visit the Plum Blossom Mountain, and 70rmb to see enter the Ming Emperor Tomb.
For now, it’s just the Plum Blossoms…
A walk up the hill toward the blue colored square pavillion…
And people sitting in groups…
And people taking photos…
Notice how the flowers here are white and not pink.
Where to go next? Zhongshanling?
over the wkend, there was some kind of exhibition and there was music in the air, while we walked around. there are pink and white plums and even more. according to someone, there are 230 varieties of plums and a total of 1,500 plum trees you actually see while walking the hill.