China: attractions and places of interest

Wuishan is a national park of China, which is a mountain range stretching over more than 1,000 km2. The territory of the park itself is approximately 70 km2. The average height of the mountains is 650 meters, and the maximum is 2,158 meters at Mount Wuishan. Due to its biological and cultural value,...

Wutaishan is a national park of China in Shanxi Province. The name translates as "Mountain of five heights", which got its name due to 5 roundish peaks: Western, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central. The maximum height of the mountain is 3,058 meters, and the area of the park itself is 367 km2. ...

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (Yulongxueshan) is a national park in Yunnan Province in southwestern China. The highest altitude in the mountain range is 5,596 meters. The mountains are covered with a dense blanket of snow, which can fall off at any moment. In the Jade Dragon Pond in Lijiang City, you ca...

Mount Emei is a national park in China's Sichuan Province. Emei, as well as Putoshan, Wutaishan and Jiuhuashan are sacred mountains of the Buddhist religion. Because of this, there were over 100 temples and monasteries in this region before the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Right now, there are about...

Huangshan National Park is a national park in the Anhui Province of China, three hundred kilometers from Shanghai. Granite rocks in the mountains inspired Chinese poets and landscape painters, one of the poets Li Bo in 747 named this place the "Yellow Mountains" (Huangshan). Over 70 mountains have a...

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, and there are statues of him in the Taoist temple: Lao Tzu, the Yellow Emperor, and t...

Yu Yuan Garden in Shanghai is a private classical garden in China. The word Yu Yuan literally means the Garden of Happiness. This garden is located in the heart of Shanghai's old city, a few blocks south of the Bund Embankment. The total garden area is about two hectares. There are more than 40 attr...

Zhangjiajie is a national park of China, established in 1982 on an area of 13,000 km2 in the Wulingyuan Mountains. These places are known for the fact that the unique landscapes here have become the prototype for the soaring mountains in James Cameron's film Avatar. The peaks of the Wulingyuan moun...

Jiuzhaigou is a national park in the northern part of Sichuan Province. It is famous for its multi-tiered waterfalls and multicolored lakes. The territory was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. The total area occupied by the park is 1,320 km2, 600 of which are located in the buffer zone...

Huanglong National Park is one of the most picturesque places in the world, famous for travertine loggias and lakes of various shapes and scales. It is located in the highlands in the northwestern part of Sichuan Province. The highest point of the national park is 5,588 meters. In 1992, it was inclu...