Real locations in wuxia books

ah yes, the other popular thread on the old WS forum!  as i recall, you started that one as well, chef, so good that you're doing it here!    

i do indeed still have the pics, so i'll post them here.    now... it's a question of whether i remember what's where in china...

i guess i, too, will start with pictures taken from my own trips.  but before i do that, here's a map i drew to pinpoint locations of famous spots in china:



this is huang shan (THE most beautiful place i've visited to date):




this is lotus peak, one of the three highest places in the huang shan range (the one behind is one of the remaining two, but its name escapes me):




more pics of the stunning yellow mountains:









other pics of huang shan that i found googling:

e'mei shan (it's kinda amazing her students were never tempted to throw ol' miejue off the cliff):









and this is the humungous leshan buddha that faces e'mei: 

suzhou, whose outskirts zhang danfeng (ping zong) went to in order to retrieve the buried treasure and which is known for its beautiful gardens:











hangzhou, also known for its picturesque gardens and scenery:







and the famous west lake of hangzhou:

and now, THE sacred wuxia place, shaolin temple on song shan:









IIRC, chefying also visited shaolin, so await his stunning photos of the temple!

and yang guo would have mixed feelings about zhongnanshan:








and this is the absolutely breathtaking jiuzhaigou, which was used as a backdrop for the ROCH2006 adaptation (and which the camera crew trashed so badly that the gov't has banned production companies from making series/movies there now):
















and the nearby huanglong pools:

zhangjiajie:












tianmen:




longji (where would wuxia authors in the south even be without rice?   ):





zijinshan, where the duel between XMCX and YGC was supposed to have taken place:










kuqa, which IIRC is featured in CLX: