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The Bingling Temple World Cultural Heritage Tourism Area is located in Yongjing County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, with a total area of about 150 square kilometers, consisting of three major areas: Bingling Temple Grottoes, Bingling Stone Forest and Bingling Lake. There are three large-scale tourist service centers in the scenic area, namely the Dam Wharf Tourist Service Center, the Xiangyang Wharf Tourist Service Center, and the Taping Tourist Service Center (under construction).
Route 1: Take a boat to the scenic spot from the Dam Visitor Service Center
Liujiaxia Dam Wharf Take a cruise ship → Bingling Temple Wharf
Places to visit: Huangtao Intersection→ Liujiaxia Bridge, Hongdigou → Bingling Lake→ Yellow River Sanwan →, Tuotuo Beacon Tower→ Yellow River Flying Crossing→ Wanhu Chaotian → Sister Peak, → Bingling Temple Grottoes
Note: During the winter off-season of the scenic spot, some scenic spots are closed for rest, and tickets are discounted by 5%, and the original price will be restored from April 1.
Route 2: Take a boat to the scenic spot at the Xiangyang Wharf Tourist Service Center
Depart from Yongjing County → Xiangyang Ferry Terminal and take a cruise ship → Bingling Temple Pier
Places to visit: Bingling Lake→ Ketuo Beacon Tower→ Yellow River Flying Crossing→ Wanwat Chaotian→ Sister Peak→ Bingling Temple Grottoes
Note: During the winter off-season of the scenic spot, some scenic spots are closed for rest, and tickets are discounted by 5%, and the original price will be restored from April 1.
Route 3: Drive to the Taping Tourist Service Center to the scenic spot
Yongjing County self-driving departure → Taping Tourist Service Center
Places to visit: Wan Wat Chaotian→ Sister Peak→ Bingling Temple Grottoes
Note: During the winter off-season of the scenic spot, some scenic spots are closed for rest, and tickets are discounted by 5%, and the original price will be restored from April 1.
Tips: The roads on the mountain are prone to ice, please pay attention to driving.
Maldives on the plateau - Bingling Lake
There is a magical landscape in Bingling Lake, one clear and one turbid, one green and one yellow, and the confluence of the two rivers forms a clear dividing line, which is the famous "Huangtao intersection". The turbid gray and yellow Tao River and the turquoise and clear Yellow River collide here to create a wonderful scene, forming a "distinct" landscape, the scenery on both sides of the river is charming, beautiful.
Passing through the canyon, the eyes suddenly open up, the red ditch of Liujiaxia Bridge is a dazzling scenery on Bingling Lake, which is the purple-red sandy mudstone Danxia landform formed in the river and lake environment, the stretching red cliff, and the Yellow River water complement each other, as if putting on a pleated skirt on the towering Danya cliff cliff, the landscape is unique.
Bingling Lake is one of the largest man-made lakes in the mainland, with a vast water area and clear water quality, also known as the "Maldives on the plateau".
Natural Sculpture Museum - Bingling Danxia National Geopark (Bingling Stone Forest)
Bingling Stone Forest is a natural sculpture museum, with countless strange peaks, thousands of pictograms, covering the waterscape of Bingling Lake, echoing the grottoes of Bingling Temple, and the ruggedness of the northwest and the softness of the south of the Yangtze River, revealing the mysterious atmosphere of nature and religion, and has the reputation of "the first wonder of the world". It is also a transit port for tourists, due to the off-season closure of the park for rest, you can take a boat directly to the Bingling Grottoes Wharf.
Wan Wat faces the peaks of the sky, stands towards the sky, each one is vivid, just like ten thousand wat boards are densely erected.
"Standing stone hundreds of zhang, pavilions and pavilions, competing for height, looking at the ginseng from afar, if the picture is on the sky", the "Water Jing Note" describes the sister peak of the Bingling Stone Forest. Sister Peak rises near the river, just like two people relying on each other.
Encyclopedia of Grotto Art - Bingling Temple Grottoes
Located on the southern route of the Silk Road, the Bingling Temple Grottoes were rated as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961 and included in the World Cultural Heritage List in 2014. Bingling Temple grottoes were founded in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, has a history of more than 1,600 years, there are 216 existing cave niches, more than 800 statues of all kinds, more than 1,000 square meters of murals in Tibetan and Han two styles, 56 pagodas, 438 pieces of collections. It is rooted in the cultural soil of Longzhong region, bathed in the Silk Road, the ancient Tangbo Road to the south and north, the Buddhist trend of thought, where there is not only the imprint of the times, but also unique local characteristics.
Bingling Temple World Cultural Heritage Tourist Area (Bingling 5A-level Tourist Scenic Spot) has convenient transportation, water and land transportation forms a tourist loop, no matter how you choose, you will be intoxicated all the way, all the way to marvel! Take a boat to break the waves, Huangtao intersection, Liujiaxia Bridge Hongdi Ditch, Bingling Lake make people feel relaxed and happy; enter Bingling Canyon, the two sides of the strange peaks confront, the wall stands thousands of miles, comparable to Guilin's beautiful landscape! Driving on the wide and flat asphalt avenue, surrounded by mountains along the way, the smoke and terraced rice fields let you appreciate the unique sky and clouds of the Northwest Plateau!
Linxia Prefecture Winter and Spring Tourism Preferential Policies Consultation Tel: 0930-6211944
(Source: Linxia Prefecture Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism)
(Transferred from: Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism)