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Aershan National Forest Park
Aershan National Forest Park is hidden deep in the forested mountains of the southwestern Greater Khingan Range, known for its volcanic landforms, lakes, and forests. Ancient volcanic eruptions left behind a series of geological views here: craters filled with water to form lakes, lava-blocked river channels creating dammed lakes, vast stone beaches paved with black basalt, and deep canyons carved by fractured lava belts. The Halaha River meanders through the park, with over 80% of its area covered by forests dominated by Daurian larch and birch trees. Shitanglin is a highly recognizable stop: on the black lava beach with almost no soil, larch trees root into rock crevices, and moss and lichens cover the stone surface, like walking into a natural volcanic geological museum. Tuofengling Heavenly Lake requires climbing a flight of stairs along a boardwalk; reaching the summit allows you to overlook this crater lake with a water surface elevation of nearly 1300 m, its overall outline resembling a crouching camel. Arxan Heavenly Lake, on the other hand, has no visible rivers flowing in or out, and its water level shows no obvious fluctuations throughout the year. The Halaha River rushes through the chaotic rocks of Santan Gorge, connecting three deep pools: Woniu Pool, Hushi Pool, and Yuexin Pool. Azalea Lake is named for the Xing'an azaleas that bloom along its shores in mid-to-late May each year; if you catch it while the lingering snow has not yet melted, the red flowers against the white snow offer a unique scene. The Chai River originates in the Grand Canyon area within the park, where black volcanic rocks are scattered across the valley floor; the stream winds through them, and you can walk down the wooden boardwalk in the forest to take a closer look. Seasonally, from mid to late September, birch trees and larches gradually turn golden, creating the most vibrant colors in the attraction. In winter, the unfrozen section of the Halaha River remains ice-free, with frost-covered trees lining its banks and herds of cattle often drinking from the river at dawn. The attractions are distributed along a single road with driving distances between them, making self-drive or private charter tours more convenient. Both Tianchi Lake and Tuofengling Tianchi require climbing steps, so comfortable shoes are recommended. The forest area experiences significant temperature variations between morning and evening, so bringing a jacket is advisable even during summer and fall visits.China · Arxan
Changchun Film Studio
Changchun Film Studio is located in Chaoyang District, Changchun. Founded in 1945, it is the first film studio in China. It produces a total of more than a hundred feature films, mainly focusing on rural problems and wars. You can learn about the development of filming in China and many unheared movies from various gallaries here.China · Changchun
The Hill
The Hill is a cultural, commercial, and tourism complex located in the Hongqi Street business district of Changchun. Its uniqueness lies in bringing a mountain indoors: upon entering, you are greeted by mountain-shaped architecture, with the main mountain path spiraling upward. Stone steps, alleys, courtyards, quaint plaques, and rocks are scattered throughout, accompanied by lush greenery, the sound of water, and birdsong, allowing you to experience the fun of mountain climbing without leaving the city. The entire mountain is enclosed indoors, so even in the cold Northeast winters, the mountain remains green, and you can visit as usual during rain or snow. Walking up the mountain path, you will find craft shops, bookstores, teahouses, general stores, and creative boutiques scattered along the way, while snack streets, cinemas, and theaters are also hidden within the mountain; the Wencham Pavilion at the highest point is the core view for overlooking the entire mountain, while the Wangshan Pavilion at the end of the route is perfect for a rest, offering a panoramic view of the mountainside. The spacious cave hall can host markets, exhibitions, and other events. Strolling here relies entirely on walking up steps, which tests your stamina and can be disorienting, but fortunately, the merchants along the way are happy to help with directions. If you catch immersive performances like the "Mountain Opening Ceremony," flash mobs and costume interactions will make your visit more engaging; after nightfall, the mountain remains brightly lit and bustling, making it a great place for weekend strolls and family-friendly outings, and a great spot to experience the local vibe of Changchun.China · Changchun
Tianding Mountain Tourism Town
Tiandingshan Tourism Resort TownIt is a comprehensive parent-child entertainment plaza, including dozens of landscape and amusement projects such as cute pet park, deer park, loop tour, extreme adventure, rainbow slide, etc.Tiandingshan Tourism Resort TownIt is committed to creating an environment where young people can get close to the natural environment, experience farming activities, organic ecological food and healthy living. It is a beautiful leisure and vacation rural life tourism destination.China · Changchun
Changchun World Sculpture Park
Changchun World Sculpture Park is located in the core area of Changchun, covering nearly 92 hectares with 11.8 hectares of water area. It is a modern urban sculpture-themed attraction integrating natural landscapes and cultural scenery, recognized as a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and one of the first batch of "national key parks." Opened to the public on September 5, 2003, the park features delightful scenery with sculpture art blooming everywhere. Strolling through it, visitors can immerse themselves in artistic charm while enjoying the gentle breeze of nature. The park features five major squares, Moore Lake, and other scenic views, forming a layout of "one park with five museums." These include the Changchun sculpture art museum, Songshan Hanrong African art collection museum, Wei Xiaoming art museum, sculpture experience hall, and Changchun sculpture museum. The five museums fully showcase the perfect fusion of sculpture art and architectural art, with unique designs and rich connotations, earning widespread acclaim. Currently, the attraction houses over ten thousand artworks from 216 countries and regions worldwide, standing out for both the quantity and international diversity of its sculpture collection. It boasts five original works by the world-renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin, making it the sculpture park with the most Rodin originals in China.China · Changchun
Harbin Sunac Resort
Harbin Sunac Cultural Tourism City is located in Songbei District, Harbin City. It is a shopping center integrating commerce, entertainment, performing arts, sports and culture. There are Sunac Mall, Sunac Paradise, Hot Snow Miracle, Central Grand Theater, Sunac The five major business types of the hotel group can meet everyone's all-round needs for food, accommodation, travel, shopping and entertainment. Let's take a tour of Harbin Sunac Culture and Tourism City with my footsteps. Sunac Mall is a 120,000-square-meter shopping paradise of fashion, art and food. There is an ice skating rink of 1,800 square meters. It is carefully constructed according to international competition standards to provide tourists with a place to enjoy ice. Wanda Cinemas has 11 halls, which can accommodate 3,000 people at the same time. People watch movies. More than 200 retail brand flagship stores, more than 60 domestic and foreign catering brands, creating a new experience of cultural life, urban joy never sleeps. Harbin Sunac Paradise, designed by internationally renowned entertainment design company designer RVJA, integrates regional culture and legendary stories with joyful and exciting theme park elements. The park consists of five themed areas: Harbin Street, Xing'an Snowfield, Wusuli Fisherman's Song, Lilac Wonderland, and Celebration Time. Harbin Street, the second "Central Street" in the Ice City, reproduces the prosperous commercial port of Harbin in the 19th century with Baroque style; the Xing'an Snow Field and the Wusuli Fisherman's Song Area truly reproduce the northern virgin forest and fishing and hunting folk customs. There are 28 large-scale amusement facilities such as Snow Mountain Speeder and Happy Angel, which can be played non-stop regardless of age; theme restaurants, special cold drinks are refreshing and unlimited; singing and dancing performances are both real and fantastic. With constant activities and unlimited joy, it's time for the Paradise Carnival! Harbin Hot Snow Miracle is the largest indoor ski resort in the country. With a construction area of 80,000 square meters, a year-round constant temperature of minus 5 degrees Celsius, and a vertical drop of 80 meters, it can accommodate 3,000 people throughout the day. Hotel Group Harbin Sunac Cultural Tourism City Hotel Group is only 35 minutes' drive from Harbin Taiping International Airport and 30 minutes' drive from Harbin West Railway Station. The convenient transportation network can quickly reach all famous tourist attractions in Harbin. The parent-child resort hotels created by the layout of the hotel group - Crowne Plaza Hotel Harbin Songbei Sunac and Shiberger Hotel Harbin Sunac. With mid-to-high-end vacations, business travel, conference teams, and parent-child markets as the main source of customers, it creates an unforgettable experience for business travelers and vacation guests, and becomes a hotel suitable for family vacations and business meetings in the region.China · Harbin
Jilin Provincial Museum
Jilin Provincial Museum, formerly known as Jilin Provincial Museum, was founded in 1951 and moved to Changchun City with the provincial government in 1954. On April 28, 2016, the new building of Jilin Provincial Museum opened with a construction area of 32,000 square meters. Jilin Provincial Museum is a history and art museum directly under the Jilin Provincial Department of Culture and is a national first-class museum. As of July 2016, Jilin Provincial Museum has more than 120,000 cultural relics, including 295 first-class cultural relics, 3,379 second-class cultural relics, 14,280 third-class cultural relics, and nearly 100,000 other cultural relics. Among them, cultural relics from the Goguryeo, Bohai, Liao and Jin dynasties, as well as calligraphy and paintings from various dynasties in China, and cultural relics of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces occupy an important position in the country.China · Changchun
Xianghai Nature Reserve
Xianghai Wetland is located in the northwest of Tongyu County and the eastern border of Horqin Grassland. Here you can see various natural landscapes such as swamps, yellow elm, reeds, and apricot forests with the original characteristics of the grasslands, as well as the graceful postures of rare birds such as red-crowned cranes. Xianghai Wetland is known as "Changbai in the east and Xianghai in the west". The terrain here is a typical grassland wetland landform, with three large rivers, the Huolin River, the Emutai River and the Tao'er River running through it, and hundreds of other wetlands. There are many natural bubbles. The summer here is full of greenery, and the autumn is colorful and refreshing. These two seasons are good tourist seasons every year. There are as many as 173 species of birds inhabiting Xianghai Wetland, including 15 species of cranes, accounting for nearly half of the existing crane species in the world. Among them, rare species include red-crowned cranes, white-naped cranes, white-headed cranes, gray cranes, and white cranes. , swans, golden eagles, etc., is a famous "crane town" in my country.Tongyu · 48km from Taonan
Nanhu Park
Nanhu Parkis located in the southern part of downtown Changchun. Built in 1935 and formerly known as "Huanglong Park," it is a large-scale urban garden in Changchun. The park's green spaces and lake surface are intertwined, with rows of weeping willows along the lakeshore and winding bridges and pavilions dotted throughout, giving it a touch of the charm found in Jiangnan-style gardens. The lake island faces the landmark Four-Pavilion Bridge across the water, and several arched bridges span the lake, serving as the main highlights when strolling around the lake. The park's scenery changes with the seasons: in summer, lotus flowers bloom in patches across the lake, and the "ancient lotus" in the lotus pond area is renowned in Changchun. The Golden Beach by the lake is available for water play and relaxation, and you can go boating in the water recreation area. In the fall, the birch and red-leaf forests are vibrant with color, making it perfect for taking photos and strolling. When the lake freezes over, the vast surface becomes a natural ice rink, bustling with ice skating and the viewing of ice sculptures and lanterns. If you are lucky, you might even encounter local enthusiasts ice-swimming. The park also features amusement facilities, so you can spend a whole day here with children.China · Changchun
Horqin Grassland
Horqin Grassland is not a single enclosed scenic area, but a vast grassland stretching across the eastern part of Inner Mongolia. It mainly covers Tongliao and Hinggan League, bordering Hulunbuir Grassland to the north and Xilin Gol to the west, and is located at the northwest end of the Songliao Plain. "Horqin" comes from the Mongolian language, meaning "archer," and is named after the Horqin tribe that has lived and herded here for generations. This is also the place of birth of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang of the Qing Dynasty (grandmother of Emperor Kangxi) and the hometown of the national hero Gada Meilin. The Andai dance and Horqin folk songs, which originated in the Hure Banner area, are still sung on the grassland today. Unlike endless pure meadows, the charm of Horqin lies in the interlacing of grasslands, sandy lands, sparse forests, and rivers. The Horqin Sandy Land, one of the four major sandy lands in China, is embedded among the pastures, with oases and sand dunes appearing alternately. The Zhurihe Grassland on the Tongliao side is located in the hinterland, where herds of horses and sheep are scattered under the blue sky and white clouds. You can ride Mongolian horses, stay in yurts, and at night, gather around a bonfire to drink mare's milk wine and eat roasted whole lamb, living a day of authentic nomadic life. Daqinggou in Horqin Left Rear Banner is a green, deep gully stretching over 20 km in the sandy land, where spring water at the bottom of the gully gathers into clear streams; you can hike along the forest paths to Sanchakou and Xiaoqing Lake. Heading north into Hinggan League, the Greater Khingan Range forest area has patches of larch, and historical sites such as the Genghis Khan Temple in Ulanhot and the Senggelinqin Prince Mansion (Bo Prince Mansion) in Horqin Left Rear Banner are also scattered along this route. This grassland consists of multiple scattered pastures and tourist spots that are far apart from each other. Public transportation is limited, so visitors from other places often use Tongliao or Ulanhot as a hub and then take a car charter to various locations. Summer is the season when the water and grass are lush, making it the perfect time for horseback riding, watching horse racing, and attending bonfire parties. The temperature difference between day and night on the grassland is large, so it is advisable to bring a jacket even when traveling in midsummer.China · Horqin Left Rear Banner
Free things to do in Taonan
Aershan National Forest Park
China · ArxanChangchun Film Studio
China · ChangchunImmediate access, Book now for today, Cancel anytimeThe Hill
China · ChangchunTianding Mountain Tourism Town
China · ChangchunChangchun World Sculpture Park
China · ChangchunHarbin Sunac Resort
China · HarbinJilin Provincial Museum
China · ChangchunXianghai Nature Reserve
Tongyu · 48km from TaonanNanhu Park
China · ChangchunHorqin Grassland
China · Horqin Left Rear Banner
What travellers say about Taonan
Anonymous user13 October 2026
5.0
The scenic area boasts beautiful scenery, fresh air, and a fantastic visitor experience! The trails are clean and easy to walk on, the signs are clear, and the staff are warm and courteous. The natural landscape is pristine, perfect for taking photos, and the facilities are complete. The entire trip is comfortable and offers great value for money, making it well worth a special trip. Highly recommended!
Aershan National Forest Park
Anonymous user25 July 2026
5.0
This place has a strong sense of history, attracting many middle-aged and elderly visitors who are nostalgic. The exhibits include film introductions from various eras, primarily using pictures, text, and video materials. It would be great if more filming locations could be added.
Changchun Film Studio
Vixie21 October 2025
5.0
Lokasinya sangat strategis. Di depannya bahkan ada Wanda Plaza, Changchun Film Studio dan jalur kereta 54. Dalam Mall nya sendiri, landscapingnya cukup menarik. Terasa seperti tempat wisata di area pegunungan.
The Hill
M52***025 July 2026
5.0
Tianding Mountain Family Fun Experience (approx. 200 words)
A weekend trip to Tianding Mountain with the kids! We tried everything – the cable car, the mountain bikes, and the double-track toboggan – a truly immersive experience! The sightseeing cable car winds through the lush greenery, offering panoramic views of the meadows and the city skyline from the summit, all while enjoying a refreshing mountain breeze. The brightly colored mountain bikes are self-controlled and incredibly fun, with winding curves that kept the kids laughing non-stop. Children under 130cm can ride with adults. The high-altitude double toboggan is thrilling yet relaxing, with its undulating tracks and fantastic forest atmosphere.
A package deal combining all three attractions offers even better value. The park has excellent facilities, including a lawn for camping and relaxation. The staff are patient and helpful, and safety measures are in place. It's a great choice for a family outing near Changchun!
Tianding Mountain Tourism Town
Aaron Guo Qi25 July 2026
5.0
🇨🇳Changchun, the City of Sculpture in China: Creating Future Cultural Heritage @ World Sculpture Park & Museum
Changchun World Sculpture Park
丶哇塞丶13 April 2026
5.0
The indoor temperature is constant and very comfortable, the snow is fine and smooth, and the slopes are wide and safe. Fully equipped, the experience is superb, suitable for all seasons, and offers excellent value for money – highly recommended!
Harbin Sunac Resort
小汉银万26 July 2026
5.0
As far as I know, there are 6 permanent exhibition halls, and the rest are mobile exhibition halls (?).
4F houses the Duan Chenggui Calligraphy Museum, exhibiting replicas of Su Shi's "Ode to the Spring Scenery of Dongting Lake and Ode to the Pine Wine of Zhongshan."
3F contains the Jilin Provincial Modern History Museum, covering topics from the resistance against Tsarist Russia to the Xinhai Revolution, from the anti-Fengtian uprising to the War of Resistance against Japan and the liberation. A detailed look will inspire respect for these figures.
2F is dedicated to the ancient history of Jilin Province, from the dawn of civilization to the elegance of the Han and Tang dynasties, from the grandeur of Songmo to the splendor of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It covers the people of Yushu and Antu, the Buyeo Kingdom and Goguryeo, and the Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
The only drawback is that many artifacts in the Han and Tang Dynasty exhibition hall are on loan, resulting in a less than ideal experience. History buffs should definitely not miss it.
Jilin Provincial Museum
老老倪5 June 2024
5.0
Xianghai Nature Reserve is located in Xinglongshan Town, Xianghai Township, Tongyu County, Jilin Province, covering an area of about 100,000 hectares, of which 60% is water. It was opened in 1981, promoted to national level in 1986, and listed in the World Important Wetland List in 1992. It is now a national 4A-level scenic spot. The main protected objects in the reserve are ten first-level protected animals and rare birds such as red-crowned cranes, white storks, and great bustards, as well as a large number of second-level animals.
Xianghai Nature Reserve
烤花菜9 September 2026
5.0
Nanhu Park was first built in 1935, formerly known as Huanglong Park. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of precious tree species, such as red spruce and black pine, were transplanted from Changbai Mountain.
The park features a lotus pond, birch forest, golden sand beach, four pavilions, and a kilometer-long flower path. There is also a science museum and a Liberation Monument.
There is a winter swimming area on the golden sand beach. Many grandfathers swim there; there must be one or two hundred people.
Nanhu Park
春江潮水墨西哥18 June 2023
5.0
I have to give a thumbs up to my hometown. It should be best to go there in September, which is neither too cold nor too hot. I once dreamed of traveling around the world with a sword, visiting different places, and appreciating different scenery and culture. [Scenery] The environment is very good, the service is also very thoughtful, and there will be professional guidance🐂🍺
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Horqin Grassland
