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Baifo Mountain and Grottoes 白佛山Báifó Shān
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Tai'an, Shandong
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Tai'an
- Region
- Shandong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Baifo Mountain and Grottoes
A 370 m hill on the western side of Dongping, the county seat, whose cliff grottoes are centred on a Shakyamuni statue about 6.7 m high, carved in 587 in the Sui dynasty and protected as a national unit. The hill also has the Sanjiao (Three Teachings) Temple, with Buddhist, Confucian and Daoist figures, two caves called Black Cloud and White Cloud, and a landscaped park and lotus-sculpture plaza within a scenic area of about 10 square kilometres. The county rebuilt the scenic area from 2023 with a hotel and seasonal events such as an autumn chrysanthemum show, and locals traditionally climb the hill for a temple fair on the second day of the second lunar month.
How to get to Baifo Mountain and Grottoes
About 4 km west-north-west of the centre of Dongping, the county seat, and about 69 km west-south-west of central Tai'an.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Dongping Lake 东平湖 (10 km).
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