Where is a good place to climb mountains in Nanjing?

Nanjing has not only historical cultural attractions, but also beautiful natural scenery. At present, the weather has cooled down, which is very suitable for mountain climbing. So what are the places worth climbing in Nanjing? Let's take a look!

1, Purple Mountain The highest mountain in Nanjing is Purple Mountain. Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park, located in Xuanwu District, Nanjing, is a large-scale urban forest park rated as "National Forest Park". Standing on the top of Zijin Mountain overlooking Nanjing! Nearby are: Ming Mausoleum Scenic Area, Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Scenic Area, and the second hot spot of Nanjing Holiday.

Price: free, you can take the cable car when you are tired of climbing (the cable car needs to buy an extra ticket) ~

Address: Zhongshan Cemetery Scenic Area, No.8 Huanling Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province

2. Niushoushan Niushoushan is located in Jiangning District, Nanjing. It consists of Niushou Mountain, Zutang Mountain, Jiangjun Mountain, Tianmu Mountain, Hidden Dragon Mountain and many other large and small mountains in the east and west. Niushou Mountain belongs to the south branch of Shanxi section of Ningzhen, with a height of 248 meters. Because the East and West Peaks confront each other like horns, it is named. "Jinling Visiting the Ancient" says: "Looking at the two peaks from afar, they are as high as horns." Niushou Mountain is a famous Buddhist mountain in China, with profound cultural heritage, and it is the origin and birthplace of Buddhist Niutou Zen.

Scenic landscape

Foding Palace

As one of the cores of the Buddha's Peak Sanctuary, the Buddha's Peak Palace is located in the west peak of Niushou Mountain, built on a mine left over from history, with a total construction area of about136,000 square meters. Together with the Buddha Tower, it forms a new scene of the west peak of Niushou, echoing the east peak of Niushou from a distance, and reproduces the magnificent scenery of "two peaks and two columns" of Niushou.

Zen grand view

The Zen Grand View is112m long from north to south, 62m wide from east to west, with an internal clear height of about 41.2m and three floors above ground. The whole space covers an area of more than 6,000 _, and it is oval, with yellow, white and gray as the keynote, and the human landscape is arranged, so that people can enjoy Zen while walking. It consists of three parts: the Zen Garden where the Buddha was born and became a Taoist, and the An Ruli Theatre in the middle, which shows the life of the Buddha.

Hongjue temple

Hongjue Temple, formerly known as Foku Temple, was built in the second year of Tian Liang Prison (503), located at the southern foot of Niushou Mountain, and later renamed Pujue Temple. Later, Xiao Yan of Liang Wudi built the Xianku Temple under the Buddha Cave Temple. Therefore, Niushou Mountain is also called "Xianku Mountain".

Admission: 98 yuan/person

Address: No.0/8, Ningdan Avenue, Jiangning District

Transportation: Take the subway 1 line to Tianlong Temple Station, and transfer to Bus No.712/755 to Niushou Mountain Scenic Area Station. Get off at Tiexinqiao Station on the S3 line of the subway, and transfer to No.712 to get off at Niushoushan Scenic Spot Station.

3. Qixia Mountain

Qixia Mountain is located in Qixia District, Nanjing, also known as Sheshan. Known as "the first Ming Xiushan in Jinling", it is one of the four maple scenic spots in China. Qixia Mountain is known as the "scenic spot of the Six Dynasties", and it was listed as one of the "48 scenic spots of Jinling" in the Qing Dynasty, with the reputation of "a Qixia Mountain, half of the history of Jinling". In history, there were five kings and fourteen emperors who climbed Qixia Mountain, and there were more than 80 places of historical interest, which gathered religious culture, imperial culture, celebrity culture, geological culture, stone carving culture and tea culture. The Millennium Temple, the "Three Lunzong" ancestral hall of Buddhism, and the ancient qixia temple, one of the "four jungles" of Buddhism, are located at the foot of Qixia Mountain.

Scenic landscape

qixia temple

Qixia temple is located at the west foot of the main peak of Qixia Mountain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the Yangtze River in the north. It is one of the four famous temples in China, which is as famous as Jiming Temple. Qixia temple's fame really needs no introduction from oranges.

Qianfoyan

Qianfo Rock is located at the southwest foot of Fengxiang Peak. In the seventh year of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasty (489), the son of Shao, a monk of the Ming Dynasty, cooperated with Zen master to carve three icons in memory of Shao, a monk of the Ming Dynasty. Shamao Peak was discovered in the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, including the Southern Dynasties, with a total of 700 statues.

Ganlongyu garden

The Royal Garden is one of the ten scenic spots in Qixia in Qing Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty visited Jiangnan six times and stayed in Qixia Temple five times. The imperial garden is where he enjoys flowers, explores secluded places, writes poems and splashes ink.

Mingjinghu

Mingjing Lake is located on the west side of qixia temple Gate, covering an area of about 3,000 square meters. It was built during the reign of Qing Qianlong. There is a pavilion in the middle of the lake, and a zigzag bridge is connected with the shore. The scenic spot is called "rainbow mirror", and a monument of "rainbow mirror" stands by the lake.

Admission: adult ticket 25 yuan/person, 40 yuan/person during Hongfeng Festival.

Address: No.88 Qixia Street, Qixia District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Transportation: Take bus D2 1 and get off at Qixiashan East Station.

4. Laoshan Mountain

Nanjing Laoshan National Forest Park is located in Laoshan Forest Farm in the middle of Pukou District, Nanjing, which spans Pukou District, borders the Yangtze River in the south and the Chuhe River in the north. Laoshan Mountain is the remaining vein of Huaiyang Mountain, with undulating mountains. There are nearly 100 peaks, 35 kilometers long from east to west and 15 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 7493.33 hectares and a forest coverage rate of over 80%. Natural landscape is known as "forest, spring, stone and cave". Nanjing Laoshan National Forest Park is known as "the green lung of Nanjing and the pearl of Jiangbei".

Scenic landscape

Qifosi

Located in the east of Forest Park, Qifosi Scenic Area covers an area of more than 4 million square meters and consists of Maozi Mountain, Zhongyizi Mountain, Fulongshan Mountain and Eagle Mountain. The canyon is deep, the peaks are overlapping, the forest is dense and the scenery is beautiful.

Shiziling

Shiziling is located at the foot of Xihua Peak, between Daci Mountain and Xihua Mountain, with an altitude of 363 meters. There are five peaks on the mountain, especially Xihua Peak and Lotus Peak. According to folklore, the Tibetan Bodhisattva sat on Xihua Mountain all night, and the stones in the back mountain rose from the ground like lions, hence the name.

Admission: Adult ticket from 30 yuan/person.

Address: Huangshanling Road, Pukou District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Transportation: Take subway 10 line and get off at Longhua Road Station, then transfer to bus 6 1 1 line and get off at Laoshan Forest Park.

5. Youzishan Nanjing Youzishan National Forest Park, located in Huanshan Road, Dongba Street, Gaochun District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, is a "holy land of three religions" integrating cowardice, Buddhism and Taoism, and also a leisure villa integrating leisure, vacation and entertainment. The park is mainly composed of Youzi Mountain, Xiaoyou Mountain, Sanlu Mountain, Tangmen Mountain, Li Nanshan Mountain, Beili Mountain, Huashan Mountain, Xiushan Mountain and Zen Forest Mountain.

Scenic landscape

Huashan scenic spot

Huashan Scenic Area is located between Youzi Mountain and Gucheng Lake, with cliffs and deep ravines in the mountains. It used to be the back hill of Nanjing Gaochun prison and reform-through-labour farm, and few people set foot in it. This unique geographical location belongs to the typical transition zone between the north subtropical zone and the middle subtropical zone, which makes this mountain vegetation with an area of 5.5 square kilometers evolve for 300 to 400 years and form a complete natural secondary forest community.

Qifuyuan

Clifford Garden is located in the core scenic spot of Youzishan National Forest Park, with the theme of Jewish historical context and "Youzi" human landscape. There are Confucian Temple, Zhenwutang, Lingguan Hall, Bell Tower, Drum Tower, Wooden Pavilion and other buildings.

Youzishan martyr cemetery

Youzishan Martyrs Cemetery is a patriotic education base in Gaochun District. Jieyuan Tomb, You Shan Zhenwu Temple Monument and Zuo Yang Tomb in the late Qing Dynasty are county-level cultural relics protection units.

Address: No.6 Huanshan Road, Dongba Street, Gaochun District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Transportation: It is recommended to travel by car.

6. As a national forest park, Wuxiang Mountain has a forest coverage rate of over 95%! "Four hundred and eighty temples in southern dynasties", Wuxiang Temple in the mountains is one of them!

Bamboo sea, clear spring, baolin? Here, you can find it! Climb mountains during the day and visit the spiced water town at night. How cozy!

Admission: adult ticket 10 yuan.

Address: Wuxiangshan Avenue, Lishui District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

Self-driving route:

1. Direction of Xuan Ning Expressway: Tianshengqiao Exit → Tianshengqiao Avenue → Zhenzhu South Road → Wuxiang Mountain Scenic Area.

2. Direction of Nanjing-Hangzhou Expressway: Lishui East Exit-Jiaotong East Road -S246 Provincial Road-Wuxiangshan Avenue-Wuxiangshan Scenic Area

7. Fangshan

Fangshan is about 208 meters above sea level, only about half the height of Zijinshan Mountain. Although it is not high, it is located on the plain and Fangshan is still tall and straight.

The strangest thing about Fangshan is that Fangshan is an extinct volcano! Volcanic basalt is layered to form Fangshan main body! Because of the unique environment, Fangshan was also awarded the qualification of "National Geopark"! Besides climbing mountains, you can also visit temples! The famous Ding Lin Temple is located here, but it is a famous temple in Jinling and belongs to one of the 48 scenic spots in Jinling!

Address: Yin Tian Avenue, Jiangning District, Nanjing.

Transportation: Bus No.803 at Fangshan Dongmen Station; 8 17 Road University Town Park Station; Take the Nanjing Metro 1 line, get off at Yin Tian Avenue Station or Nanjing Jiaoyuan Station, and transfer to the bus line for about 10 minutes to reach Fangshan Scenic Area.