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Shuidonggou 水洞沟Shuǐdònggōu
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Yinchuan, Ningxia
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Yinchuan
- Region
- Ningxia
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Shuidonggou
One of the first Palaeolithic sites excavated in China: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Émile Licent dug here in 1923, and later excavations recovered stone tools, hearths and ostrich-eggshell beads left by late Palaeolithic people. The scenic area links the excavation localities and a site museum (opened 2011) with a section of the Ming Great Wall, the walled Hongshanbao fort and the Cangbingdong tunnel fortifications.
How to get to Shuidonggou
About 30 km south-east of central Yinchuan in Lingwu, roughly 45 minutes by road.
Nearby
- Western Xia Mausoleums 西夏陵 50 km
Earthen mounds of a vanished Tangut empire, beneath the Helan Mountains
Also within 20 km: Hengcheng Yellow River Resort 黄河横城 (under 10 km), Yellow River Military Culture Park 黄河军事文化博览园 (10 km), Tianshanhai World (Yellow River Pearl) 天山海世界·黄河明珠 (10 km), Huaxia Hetu Yinchuan Art Town 华夏河图银川艺术小镇 (10 km), Mingcui Lake National Wetland Park 鸣翠湖国家湿地公园 (20 km), Malanhua Grassland 马兰花草原 (20 km).
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