Jiangxi (江西省) · 7 places · 6 cities
7 places in Jiangxi, grouped by city. The last column is the gate: 3 of them are open at all hours, and the others close, often earlier than the light does.
Most common here: Geopark (3), Historic garden or scenic site (2), Mountain and forest (1). See all provinces, or the background on parks.
2 places
Shangrao (上饶市)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Guifeng Scenic Area (龟峰)UNESCO NATURALInscribed with Longhu Mountain as part of China Danxia in 2010. The rocks here weather into rounded forms, and the local saying is that no hill and no stone fails to look like a turtle. | Geopark | 8:00 to 17:00 |
| Wuyuan (婺源)Huizhou villages among terraced fields: rape flower in spring, and in autumn the racks of drying chillies and corn at Huangling. Jiangxi administratively since 1934, Huizhou culturally before that. | Historic garden or scenic site | Open at all hours |
1 place
Ji’an (吉安市)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Jinggangshan (井冈山)The hills on the Hunan-Jiangxi border where the first rural base area was set up in 1927. Wuzhi peak appeared on the 1988 hundred-yuan note, and the area is also a biosphere reserve. | Historic garden or scenic site | 8:00 to 17:30 |
1 place
Jiujiang (九江)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Lushan Mountain (庐山)UNESCO CULTURALThe mountain that appears in more Chinese poetry than any other, and World Heritage for the meeting of Chinese and Western building on it. Cool in summer; the Sandiequan falls drop in three stages. | Mountain and forest | Open at all hours |
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Pingxiang (萍乡)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Wugong Mountain (武功山)A hundred thousand mu of high meadow above 1,600 m, walkable end to end and the main camping ground in southern China. Green in summer, gold in autumn, with sunrise from the 1,918 m summit. | Grassland | Open at all hours |
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Shangrao (上饶)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Sanqingshan (三清山)UNESCO NATURALWorld Heritage for granite: pillars weathered into shapes that have been named, among them the Goddess and the Python. High walkways run along the western cliff face for several kilometres. | Geopark | 8:00 to 17:00 |
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Yingtan (鹰潭)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Longhu Mountain (龙虎山)UNESCO NATURALRed sandstone cliffs along the Lu stream, inscribed as part of the China Danxia World Heritage site. It is also the seat of the Zhengyi school of Daoism. Coffins sit in cliff niches high above the water, and how they were placed is still unsettled. | Geopark | 8:00 to 17:30 |
Which Ones Need a Whole Day
A city park is an hour before dinner. A geopark can be a full day with a shuttle and a cable car, and the gate closes earlier than the park does. Tell our local team where you will be and they will say which of these fit the day you have.