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Icy Trees of Huangshan Steps downhill View from a cable car. The Huangshan mountain range has many peaks, some more than 1,000 meters (3,250 feet) high. [4] The three tallest and best-known peaks are Lotus Peak (Lianhua Feng, 1,864 m), Bright Peak (Guangming Ding, 1,860 m) and Celestial Peak (Tiandu Feng, literally Capital of Heaven Peak, 1,829 m).
The Hangzhou-Huangshan section runs 265 km (165 mi) through northwestern Zhejiang and southern Anhui and accommodates trains traveling at speeds up to 250 km/h (160 mph). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Travel time from Hangzhou to Huangshan was reduced to about one and one-half hours. [ 1 ]
[1] [2] Travel time from Hangzhou to Huangshan was reduced to about one and one-half hours. [1] The line is the first rail link between the two cities and brings counties in mountainous southern Anhui closer to the Yangtze River Delta region. Construction began on June 30, 2014, and the line opened on December 25, 2018.
A non-concessionary stored value travel card from NETS or EZ-Link, may be purchased for S$10 (inclusive of a S$5 non-refundable card cost and a S$5 credit), for the payment of public transportation fares, [37] [54] [55] from ticketing offices or merchant outlets where applicable.
Lower elevations of Huangshan City have a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa), with short, cool winters and long, very hot and humid summers.At the central Tunxi District, the monthly mean temperature ranges from 4.4 °C (39.9 °F) in January to 28.1 °C (82.6 °F) in July, and the annual mean is 16.66 °C (62.0 °F).
The Tour of Huangshan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Anhui Province, China. The race consists of three stages and is part of the UCI Asia Tour . The event was first held in 2023 as a 2.2 UCI race [ 1 ] and was created in order to promote cycling in Huangshan City .
Singapore Airlines presently operates the longest and second longest flights in the world, non-stop to New York–JFK and Newark respectively, using the Airbus A350-900ULR. Singapore to Newark was the world's longest flight from 2004-2013, and 2018-2021, when they started JFK to Singapore.
In an effort to improve the pricing mechanism and to introduce real-time variable pricing, [17] Singapore's Land Transport Authority, together with IBM, ran a pilot from December 2006 to April 2007, with a traffic estimation and prediction tool (TrEPS), which uses historical traffic data and real-time feeds with flow conditions from several ...