China: attractions and places of interest

Wuyishan is a national park in China, which is a mountain range stretching over more than 1000 km2. The territory of the park itself is approximately 70 km2. The average height of the mountains is 650 meters, and the maximum is 2158 meters at Mount Wuyishan. For its biological and cultural value, th...

Wutai is China's national park in Shanxi province. The name translates as "Mountain of Five Heights", which received this name thanks to 5 round-trip peaks: Western, North, South, East and Central. The maximum height of the mountain is 3058 meters, and the area of the park itself is 367 km2. Mount ...

The Snow Mountain of the Jade Dragon ( Yulunsueshan ) is a national park in Yunnan province in southwestern China. The highest height in the massif is 5596 meters. The mountains are covered with dense snow blanket, which can break at any moment. In the Jade Dragon pond in the city of Lijiang you can...

Mount Emey is China's National Park in Sichuan. Emey, like Putoshan, Utayshan and Jiuhuashan, are sacred mountains of Buddhist religion. Because of this, there were over 100 temples and monasteries in this region before the "Cultural Revolution of China. Right now, about 20 are left, some of which a...

Huangshan is a national park in the Chinese massif, in Anhui province, three hundred kilometers from Shanghai. Granite rocks in the mountains inspired Chinese poets and landscape painters, one of Lee Bo's poets in 747 named this place "Yellow Mountains" ( Huanshan ). Over 70 mountains have a height ...

Sanqingshan is a national park of China in Jiangxi province, spread over an area of 229.5 km2. In 2008, this area was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Sanqing literally translates as the Three Righteous Ones, and statues of him were erected in the Taoist temple: Laozi, the Yellow Emperor,...

Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai is China's private classic garden. The word Yuan literally means Garden of Happiness. This garden is located in the very center of the old city in Shanghai, a few blocks south of the Bund embankment. The total area of the garden is about two hectares. On its territory ther...

Zhangjiajie is a national park of China, created in 1982 on an area of 13,000 km2 in the mountains of Ulinjuan. These places are known for the fact that the local unique landscapes have become a prototype for the soaring mountains in the James Cameron movie Avatar". The peaks of the Ulinjuan massif...

Jiuzhaigou is a national park in the northern part of Sichuan province. It is famous for its multi-tiered waterfalls and multi-colored lakes. The territory was listed as the world heritage of UNESCO in 1992. Total area occupied by 1320 km park2, 600 of which falls on the buffer zone. This remote ar...

Huanglong is a national park in China, one of the most picturesque places in the world, famous for its travertine loggias and lakes of various shapes and sizes. Located in the highlands in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province. The highest point of the national park is 5588 meters. In 1992, it w...