Luzhou Travel Guide Must-Go Attractions

The must-visit tourist attractions in Luzhou include Taiping Ancient Town and Tianxiantong Scenic Area.

Taiping Ancient Town is located on the south bank of the Chishui River and belongs to Gulin County, Luzhou, Sichuan. It covers an area of ??104 square kilometers and governs 9 administrative villages and 1 community with a population of more than 36,000 people. Taiping Ancient Town was known as Luohongkou and Lupingchang in ancient times, and later named Taipingdu. It is located at the junction of Sichuan and Guizhou, with convenient water and land transportation, rich resources, and leisurely ancient customs. It is known as the Pearl of Chishui.

Tianxiandong Scenic Area is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. It is located on the bank of Yongning River in Naxi, close to National Highway 321, 19 kilometers away from Luzhou City, 15 kilometers away from Luzhou Airport, and 9 kilometers away from Naxicheng District, covering an area of ??30.68 square kilometers. Because in the front there was the Nine Heavens Xuannv who practiced immortality, and in the back there was the ancient Yelang who lived in the cave, so it was named Tianxiantong.

Luzhou topography:

The basic outline of Luzhou City’s surface morphology is dominated by high, low mountains and mid-mountain landforms. It is a typical mountainous area, accounting for 56.14% of the total area. % of mountainous cities. With the central Yangtze River Valley as the lowest center, it gradually rises toward the north and south banks. The Yangtze River Valley has a minimum altitude of 203 meters and is the center where the landform erosion base level and runoff from the north and south banks converge in the Luzhou area.

The highest on the north bank is Wanshou Mountain, with an altitude of 757.7 meters, and the highest on the south bank is Xuyong Luohan Forest, with an altitude of 1,902 meters. The north and south shores are asymmetrical and saddle-shaped, with a height difference of more than a thousand meters. In addition, the landforms of the north and south sides are very different, especially in the south, which is adjacent to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It is dominated by low and mid-mountain mountains, with dense mountains and few flat lands, and the height gradually rises to 1902 meters.

The north bank is a gently sloping plain in the Sichuan Basin. Except for some low mountains such as Bodaoling, Gufo Mountain, and Longguan Mountain, most of them are gentle hills and wide valley landforms, and the height increase rate is small. It presents a landform landscape of fertile fields and fields.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Luzhou