Shunan Bamboo Sea
The Shunan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area is located at the junction of Changning and Jiang'an counties in Yibin City, Sichuan Province, and is the largest concentrated natural bamboo forest scenic area in the world. The Shunan Bamboo Sea is a large area of bamboo scenery, and is known as one of the 'Four Wonders of Southern Sichuan' along with dinosaurs, stone forests, and hanging coffins.
The Shunan Bamboo Sea has a long history of bamboo cultivation, with a bamboo culture that has continued for more than 2,000 years from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present. The relief of the 'Phoenix Snake Bamboo Composite Totem' on the Eastern Han Dynasty painted stone coffin in the suburbs of Nanxi City, Yibin, proves that the local ancestors worshipped the bamboo totem. The rock paintings of fishing gear, lanterns, bamboo hairpins, and bamboo weapons on the 'Seven Holes Eastern Han Cliff Tomb' in Changning show that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, bamboo was widely used in the production and life of the local people in the Bamboo Sea, and the use of bamboo for housing, food, utensils, and culture reflects the strong local characteristics and lifestyle.
The Shunan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area is shaped like a 'Z', wide in the east and west, and narrow in the north and south. The entire scenic area is about 13 kilometers long from east to west, about 6 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 120 square kilometers, a vegetation coverage rate of 92.4%, and a negative ion concentration of 30,223 per cubic centimeter. More than 70,000 acres of green bamboo cover 27 steep ridges and more than 500 peaks. There are 15 genera and 58 species of bamboo growing here, in addition to the commonly produced Nan bamboo, water bamboo, and Ci bamboo, there are also rare bamboo species such as purple bamboo, Arhat bamboo, human face bamboo, and mandarin duck bamboo.
The Shunan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area is rich in biological resources. Rare animals and plants include clouded leopards, pangolins, otters, macaques, egrets, golden eagles, white-bellied pheasants, big looks, thorny chest frogs (piano frogs), cherry, red beans, nanmu, cypress, gastrodia, sanqi, eucommia, etc. It produces bamboo shoots, bamboo fungus, navel oranges and other characteristic agricultural products. There are 112 species of woody plants and 427 species of bamboo (including: 58 species of township bamboo, 369 species collected from all over the country, which is the world's largest bamboo systematic ecological garden and bamboo gene bank).
The Shunan Bamboo Sea Scenic Area combines bamboo scenery, mountains and rivers, lakes, waterfalls, and ancient temples, and also has a cultural landscape of bamboo culture and bamboo ecological leisure and holiday tourism destinations. It is also a film and television base in the southern Sichuan region. The central scenic area of the Shunan Bamboo Sea is divided from west to east into the Seven Color Lake, Sea in the Sea, Fairy Lake, Flower Stream Thirteen Bridges, Welcoming Wind Bay Area, Wanling and other tourist areas, with a total of 108 attractions, of which 52 are main attractions.
In 1988, the Shu Bamboo South Sea Scenic Area was rated as a national scenic spot in China; in 2001, it was rated as the first batch of national AAAA tourist attractions in China; in December 2003, the Shu Bamboo South Sea was rated as the 'World Green Globe 21 Certified Scenic Area'; On October 23, 2005, the Shu Bamboo South Sea was rated as one of the 'Ten Most Beautiful Forests in China'; In January 2023, the Shu Bamboo South Sea was approved as a national tourist resort in China.
Zhuhai in southern Anhui is located in Zhuhai Town, Changning County, Yibin, Sichuan Province. The core scenic spot is 44 square kilometers, with 58 kinds of bamboo about 70,000 mu. It is the largest "green bamboo park" in China. It is now a national scenic spot. The main attractions are Emerald Corridor, Guanhai Building, Wangyou Valley, etc. Self-service tours can be taken to Langhai Town at Changning Passenger Transport Center, let the owner of the hotel pick up and drop off to enter the scenic spot, and go back the next day.
Be sure to drive in, otherwise you will be too tired to walk. Tianbaozhai is still worth going. The allusions of the 36-meter are all carved on the stone, which is particularly laborious. Old people with limited mobility are not recommended to go. The air in the whole scenic spot is very fresh, and it is very comfortable to walk in the scenic spot. There are more mosquitoes, so you must bring anti-mosquito water. If you don't have money, the bamboo rafts in the sea will still cost 100 yuan. It will be better to ask a person to help you, and you can enjoy the scenery without too much effort.
The bamboo sea in southern Anhui is really the sea of bamboo. Because I don't want to live in the scenic area, I picked a few representative attractions a day. We are driving by ourselves. In the morning, we entered λ from the west gate of the scenic spot. We saw the museum in turn, forget the valley, the Emerald Corridor and the sea view building next to it. I ate bamboo bucket rice in the scenic area at noon and it tasted good. I went to Xianyu Cave again. Then I went to Haizhonghai and colorful waterfalls. I wanted to go to Longyin Temple, but I was too tired. Finally, I left the scenic spot by Ximen.
This time, the bamboo sea in southern Anhui was an in-depth tour and drove for 3 days. Almost every attraction has gone. My favorite is bamboo forest exploration and bamboo raft boats, because it is cool. This place is still cooler in the morning and evening, and it is most suitable for May and June. Negative oxygen ions are indeed sufficient, and they are shrouded in fresh air as soon as they enter the scenic spot. The accommodation in the park has also been a lot of net red hotels in the past few years. The environment is not bad. We chose a hotel of Jinjiang Hotel Group by the lake in the scenic area. The environment is super good. There is a swimming pool. You can go boating downstairs and parking is very convenient. I am very happy to have such an environment in the park. Will come back next time.
We are traveling by car to the bamboo sea in southern Anhui. From Chengdu, we will arrive at the scenic spot in more than four hours. To this side, we must buy tickets online in advance. Each person can be 100. Meituan or Trip.com or other websites can be used. We drive freely in the scenic area. Walking, each attraction has free parking, The trip was three days and two nights. I arrived at the hotel on the first night. In the scenic area, close to Longyin Temple. The price here is more expensive than the outside. Basically, the dishes related to bamboo are more than 40 or 50. The taste is still very good. After a few days, I ate a few days of bamboo banquets. The winter bamboo shoots were particularly tender. The ribs and bacon should feel smoked, the taste is OK, the bamboo rice is given up after eating on the first day, the bamboo shoot soup and the like are not bad, you can try. Speaking of the attractions, the Grand Canyon is divided into east and west sides. We are the west gate into the west gate, so the East Gate Scenic Area where we go first the next day of the trip, the recommended attractions, Longyin Temple (must go to the twin towers, you can see the bamboo sea) Colorful waterfall (walk up and down) Bohai Zhonghai (can hang Weiya, Take a boat tour of the lake) - Xianyu Cave (the road chiselled on the cliffs, there are stone carvings worth visiting) - Grand Canyon cableway (30 yuan per person round trip) - Bamboo Point walk (Tickets, 30 people). After watching the car back to the hotel near the Emerald Corridor, on the third day, visit the Emerald Corridor (a slate paved avenue, not too long, the photos are very good, there is a pavilion in the bamboo) Watching the Yuntai (also called Baishoutai, free, one of the best points to watch Baigui Baishou) Bamboo Sea Museum Forget Yougu (Must see) and finally leave the bamboo sea.
It is more convenient to drive by car, the scenic spot has high humidity, easy to rain, pay attention to bring an umbrella. The scenic spot is really a large bamboo forest, there are no other trees except bamboo. Looking down from the tower, walking between the bamboo forest and the sea of clouds