When is the best time to go to Hukou Waterfall?

If you want to travel to Hukou of the Yellow River, you'd better go in the rainy season and after the rain in summer.

Not only can you see a pot of Yellow River water, which is magnificent and indescribable, but you may even encounter a rainbow. Moreover, in winter, when the water surface freezes, there will be a landscape of floating ice hanging, forming a rare huge ice waterfall.

Hukou Waterfall is the second largest waterfall in China and the largest yellow waterfall in the world. The Yellow River flows here, with steep stone walls on both sides and narrow estuaries like Hukou, hence the name Hukou Waterfall. The water surface of the Yellow River upstream of the waterfall is 300 meters wide and is compressed to 20-30 meters wide in a long distance of less than 500 meters. 1 1,000 cubic meters/second of river water pours down from a steep cliff more than 20 meters high, forming the spirit of "a pot of Yellow River travels thousands of miles".

Every day at sunrise, there are rainbows flying over Hukou, colorful, like a Fairy Bridge. The ancient poem chants, "There are stone waves underwater, and there is no rain on the shore to hang Changhong". After Hukou Waterfall fell into the Dragon Trough, it flew down and splashed with water drops. After the rising water mist is refracted by sunlight, a clear outline, colorful and dazzling rainbow can be seen above the waterfall. It is said that this rainbow is the embodiment of the dragon. Whoever sees the rainbow at the hukou can live a happy life.