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Mount Xiqiao 西樵山Xīqiáo Shān
5A scenic area · National heritage site · Foshan, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Foshan
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area, National heritage site
About Mount Xiqiao
An extinct volcano of 72 peaks rising from the Pearl River Delta plain in Nanhai District, covering 14 km² and topped by the 346 m Dacheng Peak, with waterfalls, springs and wooded paths. It was a major Neolithic stone-tool workshop and later a centre of Daoism and Ming–Qing Confucian scholarship; today its sights include a 61.9 m seated Guanyin statue on Daxian Peak, Baiyun Cave and a lion-dance and martial-arts hall named after Wong Fei-hung. At Shiyanyan on the mountain, a nationally protected quarry worked from the Song to the Qing dynasty has left huge man-made caverns, some flooded, with stone pillars and tool marks.
How to get to Mount Xiqiao
In Xiqiao town, about 20 km south-west of central Foshan and 68 km from Guangzhou by road.
Nearby
- Canton Tower & Pearl River 广州塔 40 km
A slim-waisted tower glowing over the Pearl River in China's Cantonese food capital
Also within 20 km: Zinan Village 紫南村 (10 km), Lecong International Furniture Exhibition Centre 乐从国际家居汇展中心 (10 km), Louvre International Furniture Expo Centre 罗浮宫国际家具艺术博览中心 (10 km), Gulao Water Village 古劳水乡 (10 km), Nanhai Bay Forest Eco-park 南海湾森林生态园 (10 km), Kang Youwei's Former Residence 康有为故居 (10 km).
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