Location: Gansu province, Zhangye City 甘肃省 张掖市 How to get there: by train to Zhangye and then 1 hour by bus or car. There's only one bus in the morning and one bus back in the afternoon. It leaves from Zhangye West Bus Station 张掖西站. A taxi is around 300 yuan from your hotel in … Continue reading Zhangye Pingshanhu Grand Canyon 张掖 平山湖大峡谷 →

Location: Gansu province, Zhangye City, Linze County 甘肃省 张掖市 临泽县 How to get there: by train to Zhangye and then 1 hour by bus or car. 15 minutes (12 km) away from Qicai Danxia lies another scenic area, Binggou Danxia 冰沟丹霞 (see this post). The bus from Zhangye to Sunan 肃南 leaves roughly once an hour, … Continue reading Zhangye National Geopark – Qicai (“7-colored”, “Multicolored”) Danxia 张掖国家地质公园 – 七彩丹霞 →

Location: Gansu province, Zhangye City, Sunan County 甘肃省 张掖市 肃南县 How to get there: by train to Zhangye and then 75 minutes by bus or car. The road passes the entrance to Qicai Danxia ("7-coloured danxia") 七彩丹霞 (see this post), 15 minutes (12 km) from Binggou. The bus from Zhangye to Sunan leaves roughly once … Continue reading Zhangye National (Danxia) Geopark – Binggou 张掖丹霞国家地质公园 – 冰沟 →

Location: Gansu Province, Longnan City, Tanchang County (it's often incorrectly called Dangchang County). 甘肃省 陇南市 宕昌县 Time of visit: April 2019 How to get there: 2-3 hours by train from Lanzhou 兰州 to Hadapu railway station 哈达铺火车站, and then 1 hour by bus from Hadapu to Tanchang. The buses leave every 15 minutes. Time needed … Continue reading Gansu Guanegou National Forest Park 甘肃 官鹅沟国家森林公园 →

45 minutes by car from Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon entrance (click on the red link to see maps and more details). We hired a car/driver for 300 yuan and stayed for a couple of hours. More and more tourists have discovered this gorge recently, but it was not crowded at all. Butterfly gorge consists of … Continue reading Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon – Hudiegou (Butterfly gorge) 甘泉雨岔大峡谷 蝴蝶沟 →

30 minutes by car from Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon entrance (click on the link to see maps and more details). It's not accessible from the same road as the other gorges in Yucha canyon. We booked a car and driver for 300 yuan. We stayed 4 hours in the canyon. Time of visit: April 2019 … Continue reading Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon – Shehegou (Snake River gorge) 甘泉雨岔大峡谷 蛇河沟 →

By far the best gorge in Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon (click on the link to see maps and more details), 45 minutes by bus from the entrance. It's a 20 minutes walk along the main road from Peony Gorge (Mudangou). We spent a couple of hours here. When we visited Longbagou in April 2019 it … Continue reading Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon – Longbagou 甘泉雨岔大峡谷 龙巴沟 →

One of the main gorges in Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon (click on the link to see maps and more details), half an hour by bus from the entrance. We stayed 45 minutes here. This is the last stop on the tourist bus route. Time of visit: April 2019

These are two very small gorges in Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon (click on the link to see maps and more details), 45 minutes by bus from the entrance. They are very close to each other. We spent 15 minutes in Yixiantian and just 5-10 minutes in Peony gorge (which isn't really worth visiting). Time of … Continue reading Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon – Mudangou (Peony gorge) & Yixiantian (“One line sky”) 甘泉雨岔大峡谷 牡丹沟 和 一线天 →

Location: Shaanxi Province, Yan'an City, Ganquan County, Xiasiwan Village 陕西省 延安市 甘泉县 下寺湾镇 How to get there: 2 hours by bus/car from Yan'an, and roughly the same from Zhidan 志丹. From Ganquan it takes 90 minutes or a little less. There's no ticket office, but it's mandatory to enter the canyon with a tourist bus … Continue reading Ganquan Yucha Grand Canyon 甘泉雨岔大峡谷 →

Location: Shaanxi Province, Zhidan County  陕西省 志丹县 The canyon is just outside Zhidan, 5-10 minutes by car from the long distance bus station. It's close to Kangjia canyon 康家沟, another 10 minutes drive along the same road (but unfortunately we didn't have time to go there). Time of visit: April 2019 This is where the … Continue reading Zhidan Maoxiang Canyon 志丹 毛项沟 (大峡谷) →

Location: Shaanxi Province, Yulin City, Jingbian County, Longzhou Village 陕西省 榆林市 靖边县 龙洲乡 How to get there: 1 hour by car from Jingbian County. The scenic areas are several kilometers away from each other, so we paid 250 yuan for a driver and car for a full day. There are no entrances/exits and no tickets. … Continue reading Bolanggu – Wave Valley 波浪谷 →

Shierfeng 十二峰 is a scenic area in Nanxi River Geopark (click on the link for maps and details), a 10 minutes drive from Yaxiaku 崖下库. It was closed for maintenance and development when we visited in April 2019, but we got a copy of the leaflet, see below.

Yaxiaku is a scenic area belonging to Nanxi River Geopark . It's a 50-60 minutes drive from Shiweiyan scenic area 石桅岩, and a little less from Longwantan. We spent 3 hours here. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance ticket: Outside the entrance: The stairs down to the exit: stannade här för

Longwantan is a scenic area in Nanxi River Geopark (click on the link for maps and details). It's a 20 minutes drive from Shiweiyan scenic area 石桅岩, and a little less than an hour from Yaxiaku 崖下库. We stayed here for a couple of hours. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance ticket: Entrance: Panorama at … Continue reading Nanxijiang (Nanxi River) – Longwantan 楠溪江 龙湾潭 →

Shiweiyan is a rather small scenic area in Nanxi River Geopark (click on the link for maps and details). We spent a little more than an hour here. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance: Entrance ticket:

Location: Zhejiang Province, Wenzhou City, Yongjia County  浙江省 温州市 永嘉县 Official website: in English and in Chinese Unesco World Heritage Site since 2001. Belongs to Yandangshan World Geopark (Unesco Global Geopark) 雁荡山世界地质公园 How to get there: One hour by car from Yandangshan 雁荡山, 90 minutes from Wenzhou, or 90-120 minutes from Shenxianju 神仙居. Time of … Continue reading Nanxijiang (Nanxi River) 楠溪江 →

One of the main scenic areas in Yandangshan (click on the link for maps and details). We stayed here for 2 1/2 hours. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance ticket:

One of the main scenic areas in Yandangshan (click on the link for maps and details). We spent two hours here. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance ticket: Cable car: IMG_20190409_162703-949p-.jpg Add to Phrasebook No word lists for Simplified Chinese -> Swedish... Create a new word list... Copy

Dalongqiu is a rather small scenic area in Yandangshan (click on the link for maps and details). We stayed here for one hour. Time of visit: April 2019 Entrance ticket: The entrance bringade