Thousands of towering sandstone pillars rising from forested valleys, often wrapped in mist, which inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar. Part of the Wulingyuan UNESCO site. Walk the trails, ride the Bailong lift up a cliff face, and take cable cars.
The ticket is valid for several days; allow 2 or 3 days. Nearby, Tianmen Mountain has a cable car, a glass skywalk and a natural arch, and the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon has a glass bridge.
A river winding between hundreds of tall limestone karst peaks, the landscape on China's 20-yuan note.
The most complete ancient city wall in China, a 14 km Ming dynasty rampart with gates and towers, wide enough to cycle around; bikes are for hire on …
Thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, archers, horses and chariots, each with an individual face, buried to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's…
A research and breeding centre for giant pandas in a large bamboo park in Chengdu, where you can see adult pandas, cubs and red pandas.
More than 2,000 caves and niches along the Yi River with around 100,000 Buddhist statues carved between the 5th and 10th centuries, from tiny figures…
The world's largest stone Buddha, 71 m tall, carved into a red sandstone cliff where three rivers meet, in the 8th century.
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