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Shangluo 商洛Shāngluò
Forested gorges, show caves and twin opera stages in the eastern Qinling
About Shangluo
Shangluo, named after Mount Shang and the Luo River, spreads over the southern slopes of the eastern Qinling Mountains, just across the range from Xi'an. Its main sights are natural: the forested gorges of Jinsi Gorge (Jinsixia), the Zhashui Karst Caves and the forests of Niubeiliang. Manchuan Ancient Town keeps Qing guild halls from its days as a meeting point of river boats and mule caravans, and Dihua Ancient Town stands in the village where the novelist Jia Pingwa was born.
What to eat in Shangluo
- Zhashui pounded-potato ciba (柞水洋芋糍粑)
- Zhen'an black mipi (镇安黑米皮)
Listed sites in Shangluo
15 sites in Shangluo are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Jinsi Gorge (Jinsixia) 金丝峡 5A scenic area · on the map
A system of narrow, steep-walled limestone gorges on the southern side of the Qinling in Shangnan County, made up of the White Dragon, Black Dragon and Green Dragon gorges, Shiyan Stockade and the Danjiang source area, with a combined gorge length of 20.5 km. - Danjiang River Rafting 丹江漂流 4A scenic area · on the map
A commercial rafting trip on the Dan River (Danjiang) at Danfeng, in which visitors drift in rafts down a stretch of the river valley between the Qinling hills. - Dihua Ancient Town 棣花古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A scenic area opened in 2014 at Dihua, an old post station on the Shangyu road about 15 km west of Danfeng and the home village of the novelist Jia Pingwa. - Manchuan Ancient Town (Manchuanguan) 漫川古镇 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
An old trading town at the south-eastern tip of Shaanxi on the border with Hubei, which grew from the Eastern Jin onwards as a river-and-road transfer point between the Qin lands to the north and Chu to the south. - Moon Cave (Yueliang Dong) 月亮洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A limestone show cave halfway up a hillside above the Jinqian River in Yangdi town, south-western Shanyang County, at the heart of a scenic area that also takes in the Jiashi Gorge. - Muwang National Forest Park 木王国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of 3,616 ha in the far west of Zhen'an County, designated in 2003, with old-growth forest, high-mountain wetland, rhododendron groves, peaks and rock formations. - Niubeiliang National Forest Park 牛背梁国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park on the main ridge of the Qinling in Zhashui County, named after its ox-back-shaped summit and rising from about 1,000 m to 2,802 m. - Qinling Jiangshan Scenic Area 秦岭江山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forest scenic area of about 2,400 ha in Yaoshi town in the north of Shangzhou District, near the source of the Dan River, with more than 90% forest cover. - Taohua Valley, Zhulinguan 桃花谷 4A scenic area · on the map
A valley at Zhulinguan near where Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei meet, developed around soil-and-water-conservation works and described by the city government as Shangluo's largest peach-blossom viewing area. - Tayun Mountain 塔云山 4A scenic area · on the map
A pagoda-shaped peak in Chaiping town, south-west of Zhen'an town, crowned by a group of Daoist temple buildings more than 500 years old. - Tianpeng Mountain Stronghold (Tianpeng Shanzhai) 天蓬山寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A mountain scenic area in south-western Shanyang County, named after a 6 km gorge between the Yintai and Dingjia ridges and a stone stronghold (shanzhai) about 300 m long, from the Ming–Qing period, on the Yintai ridge above it. - Tianzhu Mountain (Shanyang) 天竺山 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of steep crags and pinnacles about 30 km south-east of Shanyang town, rising to 2,074 m; its best-known sights are the free-standing rock pillar called Tianzhu Moxiao, the knife-edge Daobeiliang ridge and seas of cloud after rain. - Yangchengyi Scenic Area 阳城驿 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed scenic area in Fushui town, just east of Shangnan town, built around Yangcheng post station on the old Shangyu road and the late-Ming rebel leader Li Zicheng, who is said to have camped in the nearby hills. - Yungaisi Ancient Town 云盖寺古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
An old market town on the river 18 km west of Zhen'an town, named after Yungai Temple, a once-large monastery rebuilt in the Ming and Qing dynasties. - Zhashui Karst Caves 柞水溶洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A cluster of more than a hundred limestone caves in Xialiang town, Zhashui County, set among gorges and waterfalls.
On the map
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