Anshun City
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Huangguoshu National Park (Huangguoshu Guojia Gongyuan)
Located in west Guizhou, Huangguoshu National Park of China is 128 km from Guiyang and 45 km from Anshun, a tourist destination in West China. The park is traversed with Yunnan-Guizhou railway, Zhuzhou-Liupanshui II Track Railway, National Road #320, and Guiyang-Huangguoshu High Grade Road, etc and encompasses the Huangguoshu Airport and the newly-built Qingzhen-Huangguoshu Freeway. The park centers at Huangguoshu Waterfall (height: 77.8m, width: 101.0m) and is scatted with 18 waterfalls of varied sizes, some precipitous and majestic, others picturesque and fantastic. All the waterfalls form a great Family, which is ranked as the largest in the world in the Guinness Book of World Records. The giant Huangguoshu Waterfall is the most magnificent member in the family and the only waterfall that can be viewed from above, below, front, back, left and right in the world. It is also with a water curtain cave in the back through which tourists can hear, view, and touch the waterfall. The great Ming traveler Xu Xiake, when investigating the waterfall, remarked, the sprays burst apart like pearls and jades and the foams rise like a mist. The waterfall is with such a momentum that even the couplet screen of pearl released from hooks/or silk that hangs on faraway peaks?cannot describe to the full its majesty. Centering at Huangguoshu Waterfall Resort, the Huangguoshu National Park of China encompasses such resorts as Stone Village, Tianxing Bridge, Dripping Shoal, Balinghe River Valley with the site of the ancient post path, Doupotang, and langgong, etc. It is among the first batch of national key scenic spots and of AAAA resorts ranked by the government. The resort has been successively designated as the national popular science education base, National treasure and most Charming Tourist Resort in West China. In 2005, it was ranked as the most beautiful place in China,by Chinese National Geography, 20 Tourist Resorts of Customer Satisfaction in China?by People Daily, and 20 European Tourists Favorite Resorts in China, etc.
Huangguoshu Tourist Resort features beautiful natural environment, refreshing air (with over 28,000 negative oxygen ions per cubic centimeter according to the statistics of the provincial environmental protection department), a pleasant climate (with the annual average temperature at 16C), long historical and cultural tradition, and complete supporting facilities. It is an ideal resort for amusement, rehabilitation, sightseeing, and lung-washing.SIGHTS:
Huangguoshu Waterfall
Tianxing Resort
Doupotang Waterfall
Stone Village Resort
Heavenly Characters on the Red Cliff
Dripping Shoal
Longgong Caves (Dragon Palace Cave)
Dragon Palace (Long Gong), 27 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Anshun City en route to Huangguoshu Waterfall, is one of the Guizhou provincial scenic spot. It is a wonderland of underground karst caves in cluster.
Dragon Palace Cave Scenic Spot includes 60 square kilometers of karst caves, waterfalls, and underground streams. The Dragon Palace, the Rape (You Cai) Lake, the Whirlpool and the Leech Pass are all in this territory.
The Dragon Palace, 15 kilometers (9 miles) in length, is the prime attraction. It is the longest karst river cave in China. The Guest-Welcoming Cave, the Dragon Gate Flying Waterfall, the Heavenly Lake, the Clamshell Rock and the Crystal Palace are its components.
Legend has it that the Dragon King resides in the Crystal Palace. Hence people named the place after the Dragon. The Heavenly Lake is at the head of the water, which forms an underground waterfall at the Dragon Gate. This 34 meters(112 feet)high and 25 meters(82 feet)wide Dragon Gate Flying Waterfall is the longest cave waterfall in the country.
A boat ride takes you into the 5000 meters(16,404 feet)of Underground River, where you see stalactites, landscape frescoes, Crystal Palace, and the entire site illuminated in colors of solemn mystery.
The Sancha River, the Stone Forest Park and the Buyi Village are other enjoyable places to visit in the neighborhood.Donglin Temple (Donglin Si)
It is an active Buddhist temple,built in AD 1405 (during the Ming dynasty) and restored in 1668.The resident monks are very friendly and welcome visitors warmly, North of here, Wen Miao is a more recent concrete temple,which is dilapidated and deserted.Zhijin Cave (Zhijin Dong)
At around 10km long and up to 150m high, Zhijin Cave ranks as the largest in China and one of the biggest in the world.Located at the edge of a small village some 15km outside Zhijin, this place is impressive even if you have not a cave fanatic.Small passageways open up into giant rooms, where calcium deposits create an abstract landscape of spectacular shapes and spirals, often reaching from floor to ceiling.
Tickets to this site are steep but include a compulsory tour.If you have not travelling with a posse,this can mean a bit of a wait, as tours depart with a minimum of 10 people. While the tour itself is in Chinese only, youˇ®ll be glad to have someone around who knows the way back out of the maze of trails.The tour lasts for around three hours, possibly more.
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