Wanzhou 万州

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Qinglong (Green Dragon) Waterfall in Ganning Town, Wanzhou District: 151 m wide and 64.5 m high — wider than Huangguoshu Waterfall, known as “Asia's No. 1 Waterfall” for its width

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The only museum in China themed on the Three Gorges migrants, opened in 2016 in Wanzhou's Jiangnan New District: the migration history of a million migrants who "left their small homes for the greater good" is told through artifacts, film and recreated scenes; a restored map of the old Wanzhou city before it was submerged by the reservoir and migrant relocation archives anchor the museum's narrative—an essential museum for understa…

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Wanzhou is the largest port city of the Three Gorges reservoir area: Wanzhou Port is a key departure and stopover port on the Chongqing–Yichang Three Gorges cruise route, where many European and American travelers board their Yangtze Three Gorges cruises

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Xishan Park in Wanzhou dates from 1925 and is one of the oldest urban parks in the Three Gorges reservoir area

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A Southern Song mountain-fortress site north of Wanzhou built to resist the Mongols, belonging with Hechuan's Diaoyu Fortress to the "Sichuan–Chongqing Song–Yuan mountain fortress system": the fortress holds a commanding position, its gates and walls well preserved; Southern Song soldiers and civilians held out against the Yuan here for decades, and the defense of Tianshengcheng is one of the classic battles of the mountain-fortress defense system

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Wanzhou is the "hometown of Chinese grilled fish": Wanzhou grilled fish—grilled first, then simmered in a spicy, numbing, aromatic broth—has swept the nation, and the grilled-fish street at Xinlianxin Square is the place to taste it at its source

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A national forest park north of Wanzhou: the Yunwu and Fenghuang tea mountains stretch unbroken—the "green lungs of Wanzhou"

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A cultural old town that is home to Wanzhou Grand Waterfall: said to be the hometown of Gan Ning, a famed general of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period; the Tomb of General Gan Ning and Sanyuan Palace are his memorial sites

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A world-class karst scenic area in Yunyang County: Longgang Tiankeng (giant sinkhole) is 335 m deep with nearly vertical walls, one of the world's deepest karst funnels, dubbed "the Foremost Jar under Heaven"

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The Longmen, Bawu and Dicui gorges on the lower Daning River in Wushan County are collectively called the "Lesser Three Gorges", rated one of China's "Forty Best Tourist Attractions": gibbon calls and monkey troops, plank-road holes and thousand-year-old hanging coffins in the gorges are living specimens of Three Gorges tributary culture, and the add-on rafting in the Mini Three Gorges is even more pristine