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  • Wulong Fairy Maiden Mountain

    The Wulong Fairy Maiden Mountain Scenic Spot is a national geological park, as well as a state-level forest park. It is located within the Wuling Mountain Range in eastern Chongqing, with the River Wujiang serving as a natural barrier gushing round the mountains feet. Fairy Maiden Mountain is 2,033m above sea level, possessing a forest area of 330,000 mu (1 mu equals approximately 0.0667 hectare), a natural prairie of 100,000 mu, and an average summertime temperature of 22C. With uniquely cha...

  • Huangjueping Doodle Art Street

    Huangjueping Doodle Art Street locates in the Huangjueping district, in the city of Chongqing. It is 1.25 km long, starting from the Huangjueping Railway Hospital, to the 501 Art Repository, covering 50,000 ㎡, which is the largest doodle art zone in China, even in the world. Over 800 workers, students and artists participated in painting the whole doodle zone. 12,500 kg pigment, countless pain brushes and hair pencils were used during the 150 days. The whole art work covers 37 buildings, 1.25km....

  • Stillwell Museum

    Stilwell Museum, Chongqing's cultural relic reserve unit, lies on No.63 Jialing New Road, 15 kilometers to the urban area. It covers 5,000 square meters. Its main structure is a two-storey building with a basement, which was used to house distinguished government guests during the Anti-Japanese wars. At the beginning of 1942, General Joseph Warren Stilwell, a four-star U.S. Army general, acting under the orders of American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, arrived in China to assume the posit...

  • Dazu Rock Carvings

    They [the Dazu Rock Carvings] are remarkable for their aesthetic quality, their rich diversity of subject matter, both secular and religious, and the light that they shed on everyday life in China during this period. They provide outstanding evidence of the harmonious synthesis of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. - Official 1999 UNESCO statement when Dazu Grottoes was listed as a World Heritage Site Dazu Grottoes, aka the Dazu Rock Carvings, are located...

  • Dazu Grottoes

    They [the Dazu Rock Carvings] are remarkable for their aesthetic quality, their rich diversity of subject matter, both secular and religious, and the light that they shed on everyday life in China during this period. They provide outstanding evidence of the harmonious synthesis of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. - Official 1999 UNESCO statement when Dazu Grottoes was listed as a World Heritage Site Dazu Grottoes, aka the Dazu Rock Carvings, are located in Dazu C...

  • Shibaozhai

    Located at the north bank of the Yangtze River, Shibaozhai is about 45 kilometers from Zhongxian County,Sichuan Province. The name of this place---Shibaozhai, actually means 'Stone Treasure Fortress'. It was first built in Qing Dynasty in 1750, with a height of 56 meters. Shibaozhai is simply a rectangular rock with sheer cliffs, standing on the riverside. A red wooden pagoda which is 12 stories high was built against the rock wall. Visitors can climb to the top by spiral staircase inside...

  • Shibaozhai

    Located at the north bank of the Yangtze River, Shibaozhai is about 45 kilometers from Zhongxian County,Sichuan Province. The name of this place---Shibaozhai, actually means 'Stone Treasure Fortress'. It was first built in Qing Dynasty in 1750, with a height of 56 meters. Shibaozhai is simply a rectangular rock with sheer cliffs, standing on the riverside. A red wooden pagoda which is 12 stories high was built against the rock wall. Visitors can climb to the top by spiral staircase inside...

  • Zhangfei Temple

    Located at a place of 55 kilometers from Wanxian county and 64 km from Yunyang County , Zhangfei Temple is also a very famous scenic spot in the Three Gorge area. Zhangfei is perhaps not known to many western visitors, but he is very famous in Asia. Opposite to the Yunyang county , the magnificent Temple with glazed tile and red walls is situated on the Flying Phoenix Hill on the southern bank of the river. Zhang Fei was a general of Shu Kingdom in Three Kingdom Period 1,700 years ago. He was .....

  • Wuming Que and Dingfang Que

    Que, which looks like a pagoda, is actually a kind very popular structure in the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago. At that time it was usually built at the entrance of big cities, palaces, mansions, tombs and temples as a decoration. Later it gradually become a symbol of wealth and nobility. Wuming Que is about 8 kilometers from the center of the Zhongxian county and actually there should have been two towers here as one pair. However , unfortunately the left one was missing and only the right o....

  • Baidicheng

    Baidicheng, which means 'White Emperor City' in Chinese, is located at the entrance of the Qutang Gorge and 8 kilometers from Fengjie County. It is not a real city, but a mini peninsular town with some temples and gates on top of Baidi Hill in Fengjie County. Climbing over 500 steps, you can reach the top. It is the starting point of Three Gorges and one reason the place is very famous in China is that Li Bai, a great poet in Tang Dynasty in the 7th century, had a very famous poem about this...

  • Carved Inscriptions of Qutang Gorge

    As the first gorge in the Three Gorge area , Qutang gorge is not only famous for its beautiful sight but also there is a cliff named Chalk Wall , which is several hundred meters wide and several dozen meters high, completely covered with carved inscriptions dating from the Song Dynasty 1,000 yeas ago. All the inscriptions were carved in different styles of Chinese calligraphy , including seal characters, official script, regular script and running hand. Among all the inscriptions there is the e....

  • Dachang Ancient Town

    Located at the world-famous Three Gorge area , Dachang ancient town has a long history of over 1700 years and it used to be the best preserved ancient town in this area. With the building of the Three Gorge Project, this old town would be completely under water and therefore the local government began to make a copy of this town at another place which is about 5 kilometers from the original site in the year 2004. They spent a lot of money moving the movable things and making copies of the immova...

  • Guiyuan Garden

    Guiyuan Garden, the residence of Kuomintang’s General Zhang Zhizhong, is located at No.65, 4th Zhongshang Road, Yuzhong area, covering an area of 7,00 square meters. The main building is made of brick and wood. There are two sweet-scented osmanthus trees located in an unattached yard with its front door facing the street. Guiyuan is the Chinese Pinyin of sweet-scented osmanthus, that's why people named it as Guiyuan Garden. The Guiyuan Garden is famous for the history of Kuomintang-...

  • Hot Pot

    Chongqing Hot Pot represents Chongqing Cuisine well. With its unique flavors and ways of eating, it becomes world famous....

  • Chongqing Mask Show of Sichuan Opera

    Here the visitors could enjoy the Sichuan Opera Changing Mask Show, which is quite different from Beijing opera. Spitting fire is another stunt in the opera show....
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