Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Area, Yingxiu 汶川特别旅游区Wènchuān Tèbié Lǚyóuqū

About Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Area, Yingxiu

Yingxiu, in Wenchuan County, lay at the epicentre of the magnitude-8.0 earthquake of 12 May 2008, and this 5A-rated zone brings together the places that commemorate it. The collapsed buildings of Xuankou Middle School have been left as they fell as a memorial, surrounded by the rebuilt town. The zone also takes in the rebuilt town of Shuimo nearby and the forested valleys of Sanjiang.

How to get to Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial Area, Yingxiu

About 1.5 hours by road from Chengdu via the Dujiangyan–Wenchuan expressway.

Nearby

• Dujiangyan Irrigation System 都江堰 10 km
  A 2,200-year-old waterworks that tamed the Min River without a dam and still runs today
• Mount Qingcheng 青城山 20 km
  A cradle of Taoism, where forest stairways climb past temples and cave shrines
• Taoping Qiang Village 桃坪羌寨 60 km
  A lived-in Qiang stone village of watchtowers, rooftop paths and hidden water channels

Also within 20 km: Lingyan Temple and Thousand Buddha Pagoda 灵岩寺 (10 km), Guanxian Old Town, Dujiangyan 灌县古城 (10 km), Kuiguang Pagoda 奎光塔 (10 km), Hongkou Scenic Area 虹口 (20 km).

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