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Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area 溪口－滕头Xīkǒu–Téngtóu
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Ningbo, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 1–2 days
- Days to budget
- 1½ days
- City
- Ningbo
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area
Xikou, a town on the Shan stream below the Siming hills, is the home town of Chiang Kai-shek, and its protected Chiang family buildings include Fenghao House, the family residence he enlarged in the late 1920s, the salt shop where he was born in 1887, the house where his son Chiang Ching-kuo lived from 1937 and his mother's tomb. Above the town, Xuedou Mountain has waterfalls, cliffs, Chiang's Miaogaotai villa and Xuedou Temple, a Chan monastery founded in the Jin and linked with the cult of the Maitreya Buddha, with a giant bronze Maitreya statue. The scenic area also takes in Tengtou, an ecological model village about 10 km east of Xikou with gardens, orchards and a collection of old carved stone windows.
How to get to Xikou–Tengtou Scenic Area
Xikou is about an hour by road south-west of central Ningbo, and Xikou station on the Ningbo–Jinhua railway, opened at the end of 2023, is about 7 km south-west of the old town; Tengtou lies about 10 km east of Xikou, near Fenghua.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Tashan Weir 它山堰 (10 km), Fenghua Museum 奉化博物馆 (10 km), Wulongtan (Five Dragon Pools), Ningbo 五龙潭 (10 km), Guangji Bridge, Nandu 南渡广济桥 (20 km), Danshan Chishui Scenic Area, Yuyao 丹山赤水 (20 km).
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