Yuntai Mountain is the World Geopark, China's national key scenic excursion area, located in the southern foot of the Taihang Mountains Xiwu County, Henan Province, about 50 square kilometers. Due to the steep and precipitous terrain, the gap between the mountains, and the year-round clouds and mist, so called Yuntai Mountain.

Yuntai Mountain is famous for its mountains, and there are 36 strange peaks and more than 20 natural caves in the whole tour area. The main peak, Juju Peak, is 1304 meters above sea level. Standing on the peak, often the head of the blue sky, under the feet of a thousand miles of floating clouds, the mountains in the clouds floating wandering, as if into a fairyland. In case of rain after the first clear day, you can see the Yellow River flowing a hundred miles away, and close to the mountains can look down on the walled canyon. Water -- Yuntai Mountain is more characteristic of a large landscape, spring pools and waterfalls countless. It is known as "three steps to a spring, five steps to a waterfall, ten steps to a pool". The most famous is the "Yuntai Falls", the drop of 310 meters, known as China's first, Asia's second. Waterfalls such as the river breaks, high surge rapid, unstoppable, landing fog and rain, floating and sprinkling. Can be called the world's wonders.

Yuntai Mountain tour has a long history, rich in cultural landscape. According to the examination, Yuntai Mountain as early as in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are emperors and their royal family to this wind, summer; Wei and Jin dynasties, many celebrities came here to take refuge, hermitage; Tang and Song dynasty favored by Buddhism, many built temples and towers. Especially after the Tang and Song dynasties, Yuntai Mountain has become one of the main places for literati and writers to visit and talk about poetry and Taoism. Wang Wei, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once left a poem here, which reads: "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I think of my relatives twice as much at festivals. The poet Wang Wei in Tang Dynasty left the ancient song "I am alone in a foreign land and I miss my relatives every festive season. At present, the relics and other humanistic landscapes preserved or being restored include the tomb of Emperor Liu Xie, the Emperor Xian's Mausoleum, the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove" hermitage - the Hundred Scholarships Rock, the temple built by Zen Master Bird cherry, the medicine refining place - the Medicine King Cave, the place where Sun Simiao refined his medicine, the place where Wang Wei wrote his poems - the Yuancheng Guan, the Wanshansi Temple, the Yingji Temple, etc. The temple is a place for the people to enjoy the beauty of the world.

Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot began to develop and receive tourists in the early 1980s. On January 10, 1994, it was listed as a national key scenic spot by the State Council, and on February 13, 2004, it was named "World Geopark" by UNESCO, which is visited by tourists all year round, with a daily maximum of 39,000 tourists. After nearly two decades of development and restoration, the tour area now has ten scenic spots with different characteristics, such as Laotan Gou, Xiaozhai Gou, Cornus Peak, Baibaiyan, Nongxiu Valley, Mausoleum of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, Wanshansi Temple, Shadow Temple, Qinglong Cave, Zifang Lake, Wenpanyu, etc. The area has been developed and repaired for more than 20 years. There are complete service facilities for accommodation, food, transportation, communication and entertainment. It has the capacity to accommodate various tourist groups.

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(2) Information about Yuntaishan

Be aware that it may be the rainy season at Yuntaishan now,

so be prepared with rain gear.

(But the waterfalls are pretty when it rains).

And it's cooler on the mountain, so bring one or two long clothes,

and don't catch a cold.

There are occasional bugs in the mountains,

Prepare a little bit of Windex and other things to avoid mosquitoes, it is necessary!

The attractions of Yuntai Mountain are the Pool Waterfall Gorge, Spring Waterfall Gorge, Red Stone Gorge, Wanshansi Temple, Cornucopia Peak, Qinglong Gorge and so on.

There can make you enjoy the top of the heavenly waterfalls have a hole in the original natural beauty,

high waterfalls, deep streams, showing the special geomorphological style of Yuntai Mountain,

three steps a spring, five steps a waterfall, ten steps a pool,

presented a thousand variations of the waterfalls, the quiet pools, deep and long and narrow.

Wanshan Temple, an ancient Buddhist temple located in Yingge Valley southeast of Zifang Lake,

is surrounded by green mountains and beautiful scenery.

Experiencing the geological relics caused by the Aurora crustal movement 1.4 billion years ago,

Red Rock Gorge has become a "shrunken landscape world and an enlarged artistic bonsai.

The famous line of Wang Wei, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, says, "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice as much at festivals. Remote knowledge of the brothers climbed high place, all over the dogwood less one." This is the reason for this.

The Qinglong Gorge, known as the "First Gorge of the Central Plains", is a place to visit the ancient world.

Entering Qinglong Gorge gives you a sense of returning to nature.

Gourmet:

Xiuwu black goat

Xiuwu black goat, large meat, robust, meat, fresh and delicate, and no stink, its high nutritional value, there is beneficial to the gas and kidney, cold and warm stomach function, is the old man and the chronically ill and weak people's nourishment, stewed goat, green onion popping goat meat and other eating methods. You can eat it all year round at Yuntai Mountain Resort, but you need to book in advance.

Haixianggong Songhua Egg

Generally also known as changed egg or skin egg, it is a specialty of Xiuwu County. There is a "Mafang Spring" in Wuliyuan Township, Xiuwu County, where water seeps out from under the stone and flows southward into a huge pool. Legend has it that this place was the place where the Taoist priest Liu Haichan washed his dan during the Five Dynasties period. The spring water produces a kind of stone shell worms, ducks eat stone shell worms, the duck eggs produced large, good quality, fresh flavor, but also often produce double yolks, processed and made into pine eggs, strange flavor. After the end of the Yuan Dynasty, successive emperors have taken him as a delicacy on the imperial banquet table.

Purchase location: specialty stores, stalls, the visitor center next to the parking lot of the small Zhaigou

Purchase price: 50 cents / one

Jiaozuo persimmon cake

Jiaozuo persimmon cake is a persimmon knife will be persimmon skin off, sun-drying, mounted on the vat in the mud will be sealed tightly, persimmon will be smothered with a white frost of the persimmon cake. Jiaozuo persimmon cake and other persimmon cake is different, dry, small size, not easy to rot, cut with a knife from the cross-section to see the persimmon heart empty, four cracks, known as the chrysanthemum heart, mainly used to make pastries. Jiaozuo persimmon cake is the most delicious season is in winter, you can boil soup, do dessert.

Purchase: various stalls

Eat: soup, dessert

Wuzhi oil tea

Wuzhi oil tea, the Qin Dynasty, called the Ganmu paste soup, Han said paste soup Jiexian tea, is China's long-established traditional specialties, the soil tribute food. Wuzhi oil tea became famous more than two thousand years ago at the end of the Qin Dynasty. According to historical records, in 206 BC, Liu Bang was injured in Wude County during the Chu-Han War and stayed in the house of a man named Lu. Lv was fed with cream soup and tea with shells, and three months later, Liu Bang recovered from his injury. After three months, Liu Bang recovered from his injuries. Liu Bang wrote a poem: "A good meal comes out of Wude, and the cream soup is better than the palace feast." After Liu Bang became the throne, in Chang'an thought food cream soup can not, that is, called Lv Mou into the palace, sealed as five oil tea masters, sealed oil tea for the imperial food. Wuzhi oil tea in the formula selection: fine powder, pearl starch, Huasheng, sesame and other 24 kinds of high-level spices for scientific formulations and become, by the provincial health epidemic prevention station laboratory, every 500 grams of vitamins containing a variety of total sum of 424.63115 grams. It has many functions such as benefiting the liver, strengthening the stomach, moistening the lungs, tonifying the kidney, refreshing the spirit and generating fluids, and strengthening the body and life. It also has the characteristics of rich flavor, thick but not greasy, aromatic and delicious, rich in nutrients, easy to eat and so on, thus it is famous both at home and abroad, and is exported to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia.

Shopping place: Visitor center, stores and supermarkets

Purchase price: 10 yuan/bag

Eating method: brewing, cooking

At present, the Yuntai Mountain Resort has developed Huaiyao medicinal meals.

In addition, Yuntai Mountain also has mountain fungus, mountain leeks, wild vegetable eggs, wild yam, chicken head ginseng, wild rabbit, wild duck and other delicacies, all of which can also be eaten at Yuntai Mountain Resort.

Warm tips (to know before you go):

Scenic Spot Update:

Yuntai Mountain Scenic Spot ticket price since January 1, 2005 was adjusted to 120 yuan / person; internal transportation fee of 20 yuan / person (May 1, 2005 began to implement) More

Scenic Spot Overview:

Yuntai Mountain to the mountains called strange, to the water called perfect. To the water called the best, is the world's first batch of world geopark, the entire scenic area of the strange peaks and beautiful mountain rolling, yuntai mountain covered with primitive forests, deep and quiet gully pools, thousands of waterfalls and springs, the country's tallest waterfalls - yuntai sky waterfall.

Qualifications:

National Geopark, the first batch of World Geopark, National Key Scenic Spot, AAAA Scenic Spot, National Forest Park, National Scenic Water Resource, National Macaque Nature Reserve

Playing Methods:

Hiking, playing with the water, watching the waterfalls, taking photos, visiting the ancient and seeing the rare landforms

Best Time to Visit:

There are four distinct seasons here. p>There are four distinct seasons with different scenery. In spring, you can enjoy the flowers and relax, in summer, you can enjoy the summer heat and the waterfalls, in fall, you can plant the dogwoods and enjoy the red leaves, and in winter, you can enjoy the scenery of the northern part of the country. In July and August, the water is abundant, so that the Yuntai Sky Falls will have enough water flow.

Scenic Area Services:

There are three parking lots and dozens of environmentally friendly toilets in the scenic area; the tour guide department in the parking lot at the mountain gate provides guided tour services at various attractions; the visitor center is located in the parking lot of Xiaozhaigou, providing visitors with advice, complaints, broadcasting, scenic area video broadcasting, specialties and promotional items.

Transportation:

It is more convenient to travel by train, long-distance bus or self-drive from Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Wuhan, Jinan, Beijing, etc. After arriving at Jiaozuo or Xiuwu, or arriving at Zhengzhou first, and then going to Jiaozuo or Xiuwu from Zhengzhou, you can then transfer to Yuntai Mountain in these two places.

Central cities:

Taiyuan, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Beijing, Xi'an, Heze, Xuzhou can use Yuntai Mountain as a weekly outing.

Itinerary:

Yuntai Red Stone Gorge, Tanzhuixia, Quanzhuixia, one-day tour

Yuntai Mountain Red Stone Gorge, Tanzhuixia, Quanzhuixia, Juzhuifeng two-day tour

Cuisine:

Xiuwu black goat, a big and meaty, and its high nutritive value is a nourishing good product. In addition, there are also waiyao medicinal food, wild vegetables and earth eggs, wild rabbit, wild duck and other delicacies can be tasted.

Shopping:

Yuntai Mountain is rich in traditional Chinese medicines, and there are also specialties such as Haixianggong Songhua Eggs, the four major medicines of Huaiyao, Jiaozuo persimmon cake, Wuzhi oil tea and so on, which can be purchased on the mountain.

Accommodation:

Yuntai Mountain Resort is the main accommodation in Yuntai Mountain, and there are also family guesthouses in the mountain which provide accommodation at relatively inexpensive charges. Or it is more convenient to stay in Xiuwu County or Jiaozuo.

Budget:

Necessary expenses:

Price in peak season: 120 yuan/person (peak season: March to November)

Price in off-season: 80 yuan/person (off-season: December to February)

Transportation within the scenic area is 20 yuan/person (effective from May 1, 2005)

Exempted from the ticket: active-duty soldiers with a officer's card or soldier's card, retired cadres with retired card, seniors over 70 years old with ID card, children less than 1.3 meters tall.

Half-price tickets: school students with student ID cards, people with disabilities with disability cards, seniors over 60 years old with ID cards.

How to know:

There is a kind of bee-like bug in Yuntai Mountain, so be careful.

Yuntai Mountain, located in Xiwu County, Henan Province, is one of the world's first world geoparks and the only one in Henan Province that combines the six national levels of National Key Scenic Spot, National AAAA Scenic Spot, National Geopark, National Forest Park, National Water Conservancy Scenic Spot, and National Rhesus Monkey Nature Reserve. The scenic area covers an area of 190 square kilometers, including the Spring Waterfall Gorge, Pool Waterfall Gorge, Red Stone Gorge, Zifang Lake, Wanshan Temple, Hundred Rocks, Rhesus Monkey Valley, Cornucopia Peak, Folding Color Cave, and Ten Scenic Spots of Qinglong Gorge.

Yuntai Mountain is covered with primitive forests, deep and quiet valleys and pools, waterfalls and springs, and picturesque peaks and rocks, all of which make Yuntai Mountain form its unique and perfect natural landscape. Yuntai Mountain to the mountains, the entire scenic area of strange peaks and beautiful mountain rolling, the main peak of Cornucopia Peak 1308 meters above sea level, stepping on the thousands of steps of the ladder trestle climbed to the top of the Cornucopia Peak, looking north into the depths of the Taihang Mountains, the towering mountains, south of the Huichuan Plain, thousands of miles of fertile land, the fields like a chessboard, the Yellow River, such as the belt, so that a person's mind is relaxed, and to appreciate the "will be the top of the world, the list of the mountains small It makes you feel happy and enjoyable, and you can realize the mood of "being on top of the world and having a view of the mountains". Yuntai Mountain is famous for its water, known as "three steps to a spring, five steps to a waterfall, ten steps to a pool". The highest waterfall in the country with a drop of 314 meters - Yuntai Sky Falls, like a jade pillar in the sky, is spectacular. Tianmen Waterfall, White Dragon Pool, Yellow Dragon Waterfall and Yazhi Waterfall all flow straight down, forming a unique waterfall landscape of Yuntai Mountain. Porous Spring, Pearl Spring, Wang Lie Spring, Mingyue Spring is fresh and sweet, which makes people forget to come back. Qinglong Gorge attractions have the reputation of "the first canyon in the Central Plains", where the climate is unique, the water is abundant, and the vegetation is original and complete, which is a good place for eco-tourism.

Yuntai Mountain to literature to gather friends, Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei in the Cornucopia Peak wrote "every festive season doubly think of family" of the ancient song; Bai Juyi also left "cold day is not light, Taihang peaks mangled. I've heard of the danger, but now I'm going alone." The mountain also has many inscriptions and cultural relics of celebrities and artists, which makes Yuntai Mountain has a rich and deep cultural connotation.

Yuntai Mountain is famous for its history. Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty left his summer residence and mausoleum here; it was also the hermitage of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove in the Wei and Jin Dynasties; and Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, used to collect medicines and make pills here. Numerous celebrities have visited Yuntai Mountain and left many historical stories for Yuntai Mountain.