Travel tips for Yashan Flower Sea and Stone Forest

Scenic spot introduction:

Yashan Sea of Flowers The Stone Forest Scenic Area is the largest karst landscape in East China. It is famous for its rich and interesting stone forest landscape. Local residents use the tiny spaces between the stone forests to plant peonies, forming a Sea of Flowers The stone forest looks like peonies growing on the stones from a distance. It is a combination of miniature and bonsai. Sea of Flowers The beautiful scenery of the stone forest has made it a unique tourist destination.

Attractions distribution:

Yashan Sea of Flowers Shilin is located in Hewan Town, Nanling County, Wuhu, Anhui Province, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is named after the "Y"-shaped mountain range. Sea of Flowers The Stone Forest Scenic Area covers an area of about 20 square kilometers. The surface of Yashan is dominated by stone peaks, stone forests, stone buds and stone gullies. The representative landscapes include Lion Peak, Double Swallow Kiss , Horse-cage stone , Stone Sea Maze There are 99 holes of different sizes in the middle layer, including the famous Yanni Cave , Fairy Cave, Hailong Cave, Xianren Cave, etc.; the lower layer is an underground river, and there are many springs and lakes in the mountains. The famous ones are Nanling Lake , Longgong Spring, Shuanglong Well, Pearl Spring There are two canyons in the scenic area, one large and one small. The Dingqiao Grand Canyon is wide and strong, with Swan Lake in the center of the valley; the Jiulong Canyon is mysterious, quiet, and shaded by thick cliffs. Water gushes out from the magical Jiulong Cave, forming a drop of up to 30 meters. Zhulian Waterfall .
Yashan was originally the birthplace of peonies. Local residents have been planting peonies for generations. There are many varieties of local peonies, including red, yellow, purple, white, pink, blue, black and green. Some flowers are huge, with petals stacked up high up to hundreds of petals, and some flowers are long-lived. The Yashan peony king lives for more than a hundred years, which is amazing.
In addition, there are many ancient ancestral halls and ancient houses in the area of Yashan Scenic Area, and the cultural landscape is rich. There are still relics such as ancient temples, Huang Gai's tomb, the place where the two Qiao sisters took refuge from chaos, and Zhou Yu's military training place. In 742 AD, Li Bai was summoned to Beijing. Before leaving, he left the popular immortal poem "Farewell to Children Entering Beijing in Nanling" on Yashan; Wei Yingwu, Wang Anshi, Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo and other historical celebrities also left their calligraphy here one after another.

Scenic spot qualifications:

National 4A-level scenic spots, provincial scenic spots

Scenic spot features:

Peony Sea of Flowers , karst landforms, geological sightseeing, geological parks, stone forests