[2024 Enshi City Attraction] Travel Guide for Yizhuxiang Column (Updated Oct)
Geological Sites
Address:
Enshi Mufu Office, Enyan Grand Canyon, Ganyantang
Opening times:
Open year round, 24/7Open
Recommended sightseeing time:
2-3 hours
Enshi Grand Canyon in Hubei
With the arrival of spring and clear skies, the grass grows and the orioles fly, heralding the most beautiful season of the year.
Enshi, the youngest minority autonomous prefecture in China, has been rated by 'China National Geography' as 'the most beautiful place in China'. It is a land with mountains as its soul and water as its spirit, where 29 ethnic groups thrive and give birth to the rich and diverse culture of this land.
Part of the Tenglong Cave World Geopark, the Enshi Grand Canyon is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction.
The geopark is world-renowned for its erosion and karst landforms, comparable to the Grand Canyon in the United States, embodying 'majestic, strange, perilous, steep, and elegant' features all in one. Here lies the 'Incense Stick', 150 meters high with its thinnest diameter at only 4 meters; there is also the magical Yunlong River crevasse, known as 'the most beautiful scar on Earth'. On sunny days, there are cliffside plank paths under the blue sky and white clouds, with waterfalls and rainbows; on rainy days, there are ink paintings amidst the mist, with magnificent and steep peaks.
Transportation Guide
It is about 40 kilometers from the urban area of Enshi city, and it takes approximately 1.5 hours to travel from Enshi city to the Enshi Grand Canyon Visitor Center. Alternatively, you can take the Enshi—Grand Canyon shuttle bus at the Enshi Passenger Distribution Center opposite the Enshi Railway Station.
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The natural wonder Enshi Grand Canyon
Enshi Grand Canyon: Divided into Qixingzhai and Yunlong Rift Scenic Area, Qixingzhai is famous for its incense stick, welcoming pine, great mountains and rivers, deep mother-child love, hundred-mile cliffs, thousand-meter waterfalls, proud solitary peaks, primitive forests, and ancient villages. The most outstanding is the 'incense stick' stone pillar, which is about 150 meters high and only 4 meters in diameter. The rock's compressive strength here is 800 kilograms per cubic centimeter. It stands tall and unshaken by wind and rain, standing among the peaks for millions of years, guarding this mysterious land. From a geological point of view, due to the long-term crisscrossing impact of the Yangtze River and Qingjiang River systems, continuous erosion and scouring have formed the steep stone pillars today. Due to the extreme difficulty of preservation, such slender stone pillars are rare on earth.