Yueyang Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Yueyang Tower Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Taking my parents to visit Yueyang Tower, traveling with the textbook
Taking my parents on a trip
Compared to those popular social media check-in spots
Places with historical and cultural heritage are more to my parents' liking
This time passing through Yueyang
I specially took my parents to Yueyang Tower
To experience the charm of the famous tower from the 📖 textbooks
📍Yueyang Tower
🎫Ticket price: 70 yuan (reservation required in advance)
⏰Opening hours: Summer 7:00-18:30; Winter 7:30-18:00
⚠️The main building of Yueyang Tower will stop admitting visitors 15 minutes before closing. Pay attention to the time when visiting
Yueyang Tower itself is not very big
Some people feel it's not worth the ticket price
But its significance lies in
✔️Being the only one of the three famous towers in the south of the Yangtze River that has maintained its original appearance
✔️Being the only existing ancient building in China with a helmet-shaped structure
✔️Being the place to appreciate the views of Dongting Lake as seen by poets and scholars through the ages
✔️Being able to experience the brilliant culture of ancient poetry
📸Photo spots
▪️The ancient style corridor
▪️The small doors on the left and right of Yueyang Tower
▪️The arched doorway at the Yueyang Tower plaque (shooting from inside the tower towards Dongting Lake)
▪️The third-floor windows of Yueyang Tower (for lake views)
▪️Sanzui Pavilion/Yueyang Tower corridor
㊙️Travel tips
1️⃣It is recommended to avoid public holidays for visiting, otherwise, there will be a huge queue for climbing the tower, with a waiting time starting from 1h, which is not very friendly for the elderly!
2️⃣For self-driving 🚘, it is recommended to park in the parking lot 🅿️ opposite Bianhe Street and cross the road to reach the entrance of the scenic area, reducing the physical exertion of the elderly on the road
3️⃣It is suggested to hire a tour guide for a more in-depth experience for your parents
4️⃣When visiting in summer, avoid the time between 11 am and 3 pm ❌ The harsh light affects photography and it's also very hot
5️⃣If you visit in the morning, the photography will benefit from the favorable light, and if you start visiting around 4 pm, although it's against the light, the light is much softer, allowing you to appreciate the golden light scattered on Dongting Lake and wait for a sunset in the evening
Not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personal losses, I ascend to the height to overlook Dongting Lake
One of the four famous towers in China, Yueyang Tower, stands on the famous scenic spot by Dongting Lake in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, carrying a heavy historical accumulation and humanistic feelings.
Yueyang Tower is located at the top of the west gate of Yueyang City, facing the vast Dongting Lake, capturing the beauty of the lake and mountains. Since ancient times, Yueyang Tower has been known far and wide for its magnificent lake view and rich cultural connotations. Built during the Three Kingdoms period, and repaired and rebuilt during the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, Yueyang Tower has become a gem of ancient Chinese tower architecture. The main building has three floors and four pillars, with flying eaves and corners, and a majestic momentum. Its unique 'helmet top' structure implies the meaning of ascending to see far and having high aspirations.
Yueyang Tower has a profound cultural heritage, especially the 'Yueyang Tower Notes' written by Fan Zhongyan, a literary scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, which has made it famous. The famous sentence in the text, 'Not pleased by external gains, not saddened by personal losses; those who live in the high temple worry about their people, those who live far from the river and lake worry about their monarch', expresses the feelings of the literati worrying about the country and the people, and also gives Yueyang Tower a lofty spiritual symbol. Here is a quote from the original text: 'When it comes to spring and the scenery is bright, the waves are not shocked, the sky is up and down, and the green is ten thousand acres; the sand gulls fly together, the brocade scales swim; the shore is full of orchids, and the green is lush.' This description of the spring scenery of Dongting Lake can still evoke people's endless beautiful imagination of Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake.
Yueyang Tower
The famous 'Yueyang Tower' in China is known for a work called 'Yueyang Tower'.
🌟Highlights: Yueyang Tower, Qing Dynasty Yueyang Tower
📍Detailed Address: Dongting North Road, Yueyang Tower District, Yueyang City
❤Recommended Reason: Suitable for check-in and photography
⏳Play Time: From 7:30 in the morning to 6 in the afternoon
💰Average Consumption: 70 yuan for adults
✅Must Experience: Climbing Yueyang Tower for photos
🚉Traffic Strategy: There is no subway in Yueyang, you can walk in the scenic area
📝Note tips: Be careful of slippery ground in winter
Hunan Travel | Yueyang Tower Travel Practical Guide
The steam of Yunmeng Lake, the waves shaking the city of Yueyang, finally came to my long-cherished Yueyang Tower. This ancient building, with a deep historical and cultural heritage, intertwines history and reality, making me thrilled.
Practical guide for Yueyang Tower:
🔸Explore the five-dynasty viewing tower, which displays the Yueyang Tower of different systems in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. The models vary in size and shape. Each tower has a unique charm, as if traveling through time, feeling the heaviness and elegance of history. These exquisite models are breathtaking, as if showing the dust of history bit by bit. They are witnesses to history and cultural treasures.
🔸At sunset, climb the Yueyang Tower, watch the vast smoke and waves of Dongting Lake for a hundred miles, and the vast lake water flows into the Yangtze River, surging endlessly. The excitement in my heart is beyond words, the lake is sparkling, like poetry and painting, a romantic and beautiful picture scroll slowly unfolds in front of us, the lake and the sky are connected, the scenery is like poetry and painting.
🔸Yueyang Tower, a three-story all-wood structure, is one of the four famous towers in China. Climb the tower to overlook the smoke and waves of Dongting, and enjoy the lake and the sky.
Tips:
🎫Ticket: 70 yuan
🕒Tour time: about 40 minutes
🎈Nearby attractions: Bian River Street, Baling Square, Dongting Lake, Junshan Island
🔔 This trip to Yueyang Tower made me love this city even more, and love this beautiful land. Yueyang Tower is a witness to history and a cultural treasure. It stands on the lakeside with a unique posture, showing us the deep cultural heritage of Hunan.
Let's embark on a beautiful journey together and explore the charm of this ancient city!✨
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Junshan Island Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Mar)
Junshan Island
Junshan is located 15 kilometers southwest of Yueyang City in Dongting Lake, historically known as Dongting Mountain, Xiang Mountain, and Yuan Mountain. It is a small island in the vast expanse of Dongting Lake, facing the famous ancient Yueyang Tower from afar, symbolizing the 'court of a fairy's cave dwelling'. Legend has it that 'Dongting Mountain floats on the water, beneath which lie hundreds of golden halls inhabited by jade maidens. Throughout the seasons, the sounds of metal and stone, silk and bamboo instruments can be heard, reaching the top of the mountain'.
Junshan is exquisitely small and surrounded by water on all sides, with beautiful scenery and fresh air, making it an ideal summer retreat. Its peaks and valleys intertwine, with deep ravines and lush bamboo and trees, creating a picturesque landscape.
Junshan's natural beauty is enchanting, with spring offering a view of rare flowers and exotic plants, summer presenting the vast Dongting Lake, autumn providing a glimpse of fishermen's songs and the autumn moon, and winter showcasing migratory birds in the wetlands. Junshan is a paradise for tourism and vacation, a perfect place for summer retreat and leisure. Junshan is like a magical book, a colorful painting, with each reading bringing new discoveries and feelings. It is an island of love, where love poems, mythical realms, and painted scrolls harmoniously and perfectly blend.
The island is renowned for its characteristic needle-shaped yellow tea—Junshan Silver Needle—famous both at home and abroad. Junshan tea was first offered as a tribute during the Tang Dynasty and continued through the Five Dynasties, historically reserved for imperial consumption. In 1956, at the Leipzig World Fair, 'Junshan Silver Needle' was acclaimed as 'gold inlaid with jade' and won a gold medal, now ranking as one of China's top ten famous teas.
By the Dongting Lake, there are reed marshes
📍2023 World Dongting•Reed Art Season Location: Junshan Island Scenic Area🎫 Entrance Price: 19.9 (including admission + shuttle bus)
🕙Business Hours: 9 :00 - 17:30
Exhibition Date: Expected to last until January 2024
❤️Recommended Reasons
A relatively large reed art exhibition, with more than a dozen reed works and installations made from local materials in Dongting Lake
In addition to the exhibition, the large reeds in front are also suitable for taking pictures
There are snacks and drinks at the entrance of the exhibition area, and there are also drink vending machines inside
It is recommended to buy the "admission + shuttle bus" 19.9 package ticket, it's quite a walk to get in
📷 For shooting, it is suggested to wear blue/red/white series to stand out more, brown/coffee series will be more gentle
Be careful not to slip or scratch your clothes when walking. Flat shoes are recommended
🈲No fire🔥
There will be reed catkins in the air, people with allergies remember to wear masks
Try to choose a sunny day to go☀️, the photos will look better
There are very few people on this road. The winds on the Dongting Lake are very big, the hair is blown up, and the wind blows.
The reeds sway in the wind, leaving a burst of flutter.
Yueyang is called Baling, also known as Yuezhou. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province, the second largest economy, and an important member of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
The leaves of the phoenix tree on both sides of the road are already yellow, not yet coming and falling.
This road has a ridiculous beauty this season.
Yu Yafei's poem said: "The shallow water is damp, the reeds are a clump of clumps; the wind sways a lot of gestures, and the simplicity is wild and interesting."
We liked this picture very much. On the second day, it was sunny and drove to take some photos to satisfy myself.
Junshan Island, formerly known as Dongting Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain and Youyuan Mountain, is located in Yueyang City. It is a small island in the Dongting Lake of Babaili, which is opposite to Yueyang Building, a famous building in the ages.
Junshan is small and exquisite, surrounded by water, beautiful scenery, fresh air, is a summer resort, its peaks and knots, gully loops, bamboo and green, picturesque. The terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, with an average elevation of 55m. The highest point is 63.3m.
Junshan Island I have been there once, it was the summer many years ago.
The time to come to Yueyang, mainly intends to go to Yueyang Tower, and visit the Junshan Island in the scenic spot of Yueyang Building.
Although the summer colors are richer than the winter, I still think that Junshan Island is quite boring.
But this time here, the Junshan Island in the misty and rainy weather has a different kind of "Jiangnan Artistic Beauty".
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Glass bridge of Shiniuzhai. The area is very beautiful and it’s easy to get to the location ,you can buy your day tour from trip.com or you can drive a car to the tourist center there’s a special bus that will take you to the scenic area. To go to the glass bridge you will have to buy another ticket is not included in the ticket.
there is beautiful hotels nearby that you can stay and have a lovely holiday
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Detailed Yueyang travel guide is here~
🌅If you're just here to check in for the sunset, there's no need to go to Piaowei. You can check in for the sunset at Baling Square or the cave on Dongting South Road (remember to check the weather in Yueyang before you go).
📸There is an entrance fee for the Yueyang Tower Park. If you just want to take a photo, you can take one at the entrance.
🍗Baling Square is connected to Bianhe Street, these two places are the snack streets of the square. You can come here at night to stroll and buy some snacks.
🏯The Saint An Ancient Temple is not far from the Church College. I personally think there is a quiet atmosphere in the Saint An Ancient Temple.
🌇The Church College does not require an entrance ticket. It is like a deserted building, but it is quite medieval for taking pictures. Those who are interested can go and take pictures.
🎋The scenery inside Jin'e Mountain Park is really beautiful! The bamboo forest surrounds you, making you feel comfortable.
🐼China Giant Panda Garden!! This time Yueyang has introduced ten giant pandas, Changsha only has two! It is now open, interested friends can learn about it on their mobile phones in advance.
🍡Yueyang barbecue should be famous all over the country! In Yueyang, you can sit anywhere and eat barbecue without stepping on thunder!
🏙️For accommodation, I recommend the Meisu Huanzhi Hotel located in the city center, only 1.5 kilometers from Yueyang, 1.2 kilometers from Baling Square. The pedestrian street is right across from the hotel, with food, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment all available!!!
Haven't you come to see these places in Yueyang while it's not cold yet??
1️⃣If I could only recommend one park in Yueyang, then Nanhu Park would definitely be my first choice
📝| Check-in strategy.
➊Route🗺️
Walk straight from Shangshu Mountain Road until you can see the forest, then walk along the main road inside, there are many places to take pictures along the way
❷Transportation🚗
Routes 29, 31, 39 can all reach, get off at Shangshu Mountain Park, walk to
❸Check-in point📌
1 As soon as you enter, you can see a large area of tall and straight fir trees. When the sun is out, the light and shadow here are beautiful, especially for taking pictures
2 The water fir on the side of the lake is also very beautiful, the fallen leaves on the ground and the exposed roots, have a taste of the primitive forest, very suitable for shooting literary films
3 Walk along the main road, the entire forest road is very beautiful, when the sun shines in, don't hesitate, hurry up and use the telephoto to compress the winding path into your picture
4 Continue to walk forward, there is a very beautiful , behind is a bamboo forest, the ancient charm is too artistic
5 Continue to walk forward, you can see the main gate of , go in and on the left is a red bridge, surrounded by yellow plane leaves, the color system is very warm
2️⃣The autumn tail of autumn has no grass sea, only the sunset and lonely autumn tail has already withered grass and trees, no large green grass sea, may disappoint many visitors who come here specially. However, standing on the vast shore of Dongting at dusk, it can be said to be loneliness in desolation, or freedom in the wilderness.
1. It is recommended to combine with Saint An Temple for a visit, if you come here specially, it is best to arrive at dusk, otherwise there is no shelter in this wilderness, it will be very boring.
2. Facing Dongting Lake, there is a long plank road on the left that goes straight to the heart of Dongting, where you can experience the feeling of walking on Dongting Lake;
3 On the right, there is a built road that goes straight to the shore of Dongting Lake, where many people play or take pictures by the water.
⚠️Note: The nearest shared electric car is about 1km away, if you ride an electric car, you either have to bear the temporary parking fee, or walk 1km.
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Beside Dongting Lake - Bird Watching!!
Enjoy the scenery and bird watching in the great prairie of Dongting Lake
Head to the great prairie of Dongting Lake in Yueyang to enjoy the scenery and bird watching. There is a self-discharging gate at the connection between the west bank of Dongting Lake and Huarong River, named Liu Men Gate. Because this gate has six gates lined up in a row, it gradually became a well-known landmark on the shore of Dongting Lake. Here in winter, there are still endless green grass and reeds, as well as various migratory birds overwintering, with a walking distance of 8 kilometers.
Winter Travel Guide|Hunan Yueyang|Yueyang Tower
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Yueyang, eight hundred miles of Dongting Lake||Land of fish and rice
🗺Travel route:
Yueyang Tower, Bianhe Street, Baling Square, Dongting Lake South Lake Scenic Area, Yueyang Museum, Jinyi Mountain Park
✅Yueyang Tower
🎫Ticket ¥70, can be purchased online, if you need a paper ticket, you need to use your ID to buy a ticket
🎈Yueyang Tower is right by Dongting Lake, standing on Yueyang Tower, you can also feel the vastness of Dongting Lake, the hundreds of boats competing, it is really shocking
🔥Fan Zhongyan actually never went to Yueyang Tower, 'Yueyang Tower' is based on his friend Teng Zijing's renovation of Yueyang Tower after he was exiled to Baling County (now Yueyang), and a 'Request for Records' and a 'Dongting Late Autumn Picture' sent to him. Just based on a painting, he was able to write such a majestic poem and connect it with the concern for the country and the people, we are really shocked!
🍃Don't ignore the deep cultural charm of Yueyang Tower and the city of Yueyang
✅Bianhe Street
Folk commercial street, similar to many cities' folk streets, such as Beijing's Nanluoguxiang, Changsha's Taiping Street, etc., there are many restaurants
✅Baling Square
After visiting Yueyang Tower, you can see a huge statue of 'Houyi Shooting the Bashe' in the square from Zhan Yue Gate, which is very attractive. Unfortunately, it was foggy when we went, otherwise it would be a beautiful thing to watch the sunrise and sunset in this square on a clear day.
✅Hunan Yueyang Dongting Lake Tourist Resort (South Lake Scenic Area)
🍃Free, the scenic area is very large, it took an hour to tour the entire scenic area by sightseeing car (¥30/person), the scenery along the way is really beautiful: lush forests, plum blossoms blooming alone in the cold, egrets flying over the lake, the boundless lake is like the sea......
👍The master of the sightseeing car is a local, and he explained many stories we didn't know about along the way for free.
🍃We also took a boat at Nanjin Ancient Ferry, ¥59/person for 40 minutes, it is not recommended to go if the weather is bad.
✅Yueyang Museum
🍃Free, you can learn about the development history and folk customs of Yueyang through various exhibits, but some of the collections were on display in museums in other cities when we went
✅Jinyi Mountain Park
🍃Free, the park is also very large, very good for taking pictures📷
As soon as you enter, it is Wenchang Pavilion.
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