Best View hike Yangdi-Xingping

I'll be travelling to China February 2016 and I would like to know what the best way to do the hike would be. Option 1: hiking from Xingping to Yangdi; or, option 2: hiking from Yangdi to Cingping???

In option 1 since the hike would be from south to north and the sun would be lower to the south hemisphere, I assume that going north the sunlight would be in front not against the landscape like it would happen going from Yangdi to Xingping, what is I usually hear people do this hike.

Am I right???