Niche attractions worth visiting around Xi'an

Introduction: Did you know? There are some scenic spots in Shaanxi that have not completely unveiled their mysterious veil. They have green mountains, streams, ancient towns, and caves? The Qingming Festival holiday is coming, and you no longer have to worry about it. Don’t worry about living at home or drowning in the sea of ??people! Niche attractions worth visiting around Xi’an

Watch the wonderful show in Wangchuan Cave

Wang Wei, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, once lived in seclusion here. The tour is divided into Lingyun and Xishui caves. Entering the cave, you feel like you are in a crystal palace, with stalactites hanging upside down and bamboo shoots standing everywhere.

Under the colorful neon lights, the entire Dongting seems like a God-given underground shrine. Wangchuan Cave is also called Lantian Cave. The cave door is made of blue bricks, and there are three characters "Xishui Cave" on the lintel. The words on an ancient couplet on both sides of the cave door are clearly legible. The first couplet says "Xia Guang Yingxiao Han", and the second couplet "Purple Mist Shines to the South".

Address: Wangchuan, Lantian County, Xi'an

Ticket: 28 yuan

Opening hours: 8:00-17:00

Bus: Take the Xi'an Lantian Ge brand shuttle bus at Tangdu Station. After getting off, take bus No. 101 to get there

Self-driving 1: Take the Xi'an Lantian shuttle bus from the train station. The Lantian Wangchuan shuttle bus is in the scenic area. Get off at the door;

Self-driving 2: Xi’an? Xilan Expressway? Lantian/Xiehu? Provincial Road 101? Provincial Road 107? County Gate Street? Lantian

Fengguanshan Grottoes have an important history< /p>

When visiting Guanshan, one is to climb mountains to see the scenery, the other is to enter caves to seek immortality, and the third is to climb cliffs for adventure. Ge Hong, a Taoist priest of the Jin Dynasty, and Zhang Ziyang, the founder of the southern sect of Taoism, once practiced here. On the cliffs, the ancients dug twelve caves, including the Earth Cave, the Guandi Cave, the Jade Emperor Cave, the Foye Cave, and the God of Wealth Cave. The statues and reliefs in the caves are lifelike and mysterious, hiding the mysteries of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

Address: Lingyuan Road, North of Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province, at the southern foot of the eastern section of Qinling Mountains

Ticket: 60 yuan

Opening hours: 8:00?18:00

Bus: Take a bus at Xi'an Bus Station or Kangfu Road Bus Station, or Electronic City Bus Station in the High-tech Zone, the price is 38 yuan/person one way (can take ordinary buses, luxury buses, and sleeper buses).

Self-driving: Starting from Xi'an, drive along G70 towards Shangluo. Turn right onto G40 and leave from Danfeng/G312 exit. Enter G312, drive along G312 for 5.9 kilometers, turn left and drive for 2.0 kilometers. Make a U-turn and drive 2.0 kilometers to arrive.

Appreciate the nature in Wushan Mountain, Baoji

Wushan Mountain is so beautiful and surrounded by clouds that emperors of all dynasties respected it and worshiped their ancestors. There are seventeen steep peaks, among which Zhenxi Peak, Daxian Peak, Lingying Peak and Huixian Peak are the crown of all peaks. They are so abrupt and towering that they look like five hibiscus flowers emerging from the water. They enjoy the reputation of "Five Peaks".

There are many rare plants and animals in Wushan. There are brilliant mountain flowers, whirling bamboos, peonies on the northern slopes, Ganoderma lucidum grass, golden pheasants, white cranes, antelopes, yellow sheep, deer and so on on the oak forest slopes.

Address: Miaochuan Village, northwest of Xinjie Township, Baoji County, Baoji City

Ticket: 40 yuan

Opening hours: 7:30?18:00

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Bus: Take the bus from each passenger terminal in Xi'an to Baoji, take bus No. 16 to Xiangong Town, then transfer to the bus at Xinjie, go to Xinjie and take a van to Wushan.

Self-driving: The Xibao Expressway heading west from Sanqiao can go directly to Baoji. Follow Baoping Road to the north. After arriving at Xianggong Town, there is a cement road about 100 meters away from the toll station. Follow the cement road You can go to Xinjie Town.

View the landscape in Liushui Ancient Town

The ancient town of Liushui is a very famous town in Bashan. It used to be called Liushuidian. It is on the edge of the Han River between Ankang County and Ziyang County. . The beautiful lakes and mountains on both sides of Yinghu Lake are intoxicating, and the eyes are overwhelmed. The town's ancient buildings with cornices, blue bricks, black tiles and horse-head walls will make you feel refreshed. It has both the magnificence of the northern landscape and the elegance of the southern landscape.

Tourist spots in the territory: the Patriarch's Hall, the general's tomb (the person in the tomb is a Qing Dynasty martial arts general named Wu Hualin), He Xiangu's temple, etc.

Address: Southwest of Ankang City, 25 kilometers away from the city

Route 1: Ankang bus? Huoshiyan Passenger Terminal and boat? Liushui Town Pier

Route 2 : Take train 6065 (Ankang? Dazhou) from Ankang Railway Station? Nanxigou Station? Nanxigou Passenger Terminal Ship? Liushui Town Pier

The water flows out of Zigeyuli

The trees here are lush, the mountains are beautiful, the scenery is beautiful, and it is close to Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, it attracted many Buddhist and Taoist practitioners to come and live in seclusion. It is also said that the disciples of the eminent monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty removed Master Xuanzang's remains from them. Xingjiao Temple moved to Zige Temple here, so it has always attracted much attention.

The Lianzhu Tan in Zige Valley has quiet water and is very suitable for barbecue here.

If you have enough time, you can also go hiking. The scenery along the way is very good. From Zigeyu Pass through the mountain farmhouse to Maweichi Waterfall, then to Lianzhutan Waterfall and back. The whole journey is about 25 miles, and you return the same way.

Address: Hu County, Xi'an City, about 30 kilometers away from the urban area

Bus: Take bus No. 921 and get off at the No. 8 Team (Haojiazhuang) station, and go straight south into the mountain. ; Or after getting off the bus, walk 50 meters eastward (opposite to the direction of the vehicle) to cross the bridge. There is a road into the mountain to the east of the bridge. Follow the road and go straight south, which is Zigeyu.

Self-driving: Take the mountain ring road to Yajian Golf Course, about 2km to the west. There is a road into the mountain to the east of the bridge. Follow the road and go straight south to Zigeyu.

There is winter in Yuxu Cave in Luonan

Yuxu Cave is a Haast landform cave in the branch of Qinling Mountains. Legend has it that in the 13th year of Ming Dynasty, monks from Dabei Temple chased the Jade Rabbit to Half Cliff and discovered this place. Yuxu Cave is a wonder of uncanny craftsmanship and a wonder created in heaven and earth. The cave is about 800 meters deep and has 8 branch caves distributed in a ring.

There are deep and winding paths that cleverly connect the caves, forming a wonderful scene of large caves with unfathomable loops and small caves interspersed in between. There are hanging breasts and rocks everywhere.

Address: Luojiagou, Shimen Town, 27.5 kilometers north of Luonan County, Shangluo

Ticket: 50 yuan

Opening hours: 9:00?17:00

Self-driving: Starting from Xi'an, follow National Highway 312 or Shaanxi-Shanghai Expressway to Luonan, the total distance is 146 kilometers. Then go to each scenic spot separately.

Peach Blossom Stream in Taoxibao

It is said that every year in March and April, fallen flowers bloom here. The creeks along the village are covered with peach blossoms. Only the peach blossoms can be seen but no water, so it is named Peach Blossom Stream. creek. Taoxi Fort is also the original place of Cui Hu's "Nanzhuang in the Capital City" and the place where the story of the peach blossom with a human face takes place.

Later, in order to develop tourism, a peach garden was built on the bank of Dihe River in the south of the village, covering an area of ??more than 50 acres. According to the artistic conception of "Capital City Nanzhuang", we built thatched cottages, small bridges, flowing water, peaches and plums, and unique scenery. It has become a scenic spot in the Chang'an Middle Road tourist belt. A Taiwanese film company filmed "Human Face Peach Blossom" and "Wang Baochuan" Movies like this have used this place as a location.

Address: The center of Fanchuan, Chang'an District

Tickets: Free

Bus: 4?19, 905, 917. , take bus No. 923 and get off at Taoxibao Station

By car: Drive along the Baomao Expressway, exit from the Taiyi Palace/Guanzhong Ring Road/S107 exit and enter the Taiyi Palace Interchange, heading towards Weiqu/S107. Enter S108 and go straight.