Shangrao (Sanqingshan) 上饶（三清山）（8条）
External list positioning: Mount Sanqingshan/Wuyuan dual calling cards, East Asian + European/American scenery travelers
External list positioning: Mount Sanqingshan/Wuyuan dual calling cards, East Asian + European/American scenery travelers; Shangrao is home to Mount Sanqingshan, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, and Wuyuan, China's most beautiful countryside.
What to eat
Yanshan hot rice noodles (tangfen), Yiyang rice cakes, Qingming guo (mugwort rice dumplings), Wuyuan pasty tofu (hu doufu), Hebao red carp, and qigao (steamed rice sponge cakes); in Wuyuan county town and around Xinjiang East Road in downtown Shangrao.
Getting around
Sanqingshan Airport (approx. 18 km from downtown); Shangrao Station / Wuyuan Station / Yiyang Station (a cross-shaped hub of the Shanghai–Kunming and Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed rail lines); getting around town is mainly by bus.
Top things to do in Shangrao (Sanqingshan)
Ranked picks — headline sights first, with tickets and timing at a glance.
1 Mount Sanqing
AttractionWorld Natural Heritage site (inscribed 2008), World Geopark, and national 5A scenic area — a museum of granite peak-forest landforms
2 Lingshan (Shangrao)
AttractionA ring-shaped granite mountain famed for its bird's-eye silhouette resembling the profile of a sleeping beauty; said to be one of the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism
3 Guifeng (Turtle Peak), Yiyang
AttractionPart of the World Natural Heritage site China Danxia (inscribed in 2010 along with China Danxia), a national 5A scenic area
4 Huangling Village (Wuyuan)
AttractionAn ancient Huizhou village hanging on a cliff (Wuyuan county town entry: see 18d-4), world-famous for its Shaiqiu sun-drying folk custom
5 Wangxian Valley
AttractionA Gan-style cliffside town rebuilt on an abandoned quarry, a culture-tourism complex that has gone viral in recent years
6 Wunüzhou Resort Area
AttractionA newly built Huizhou-style waterfront cultural tourism town in Wuyuan, themed on the legend of the Wu maiden flying to heaven
7 Yanshan Hekou Ancient Town
AttractionA dock serving eight provinces in the Ming and Qing dynasties, a paper-and-tea trading hub on the banks of the Xin River
8 Shangrao Concentration Camp Scenic Area
AttractionSite where the Kuomintang held New Fourth Army officers, soldiers and patriots after the Wannan Incident; a nationally protected cultural site and 4A scenic area
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