Current Position: Home >> Scenic Spots Tour Spots Benxi City, built up on chains of mountains and along rivers allover the area, is situated at the southeast of Liaoning Province and abundant in tourism resources with beautiful mountains and rivers. The landscapes integrate mountain, water, spring, forest, lake, cave, city and ruins of the ancients as a whole. The wonders of the world Benxi Water Cave and maple leaves in the autumn which are much redder than flowers in February take tourist’s breath away in astonishment. The serial tourism products at different levels, state level, province level, city level and county level, have taken preliminary shape. The Maple Leave Festival held once a year will help to widespread the image of the city’s tourism and raise the notability of Benxi as well. On this occasion, both miraculous city and a great variety of tourism goods will be introduced to the guests and tourists both at home and abroad by means of well designed tour investigation, ethnic folk custom performance and sales exhibition etc. All colleagues working in the line of tourism and tourists from all over the world are sincerely welcomed to visit Benxi either for sightseeing or cooperation for future development of tourism in new era of Benxi. Mount Jiuding Tiecha Mount Jiuding Tiecha, one of the well known mountains in eastern part of Liaoning Province, is the birthplace for northeast Taoism. It lies in Nandian Town of Benxi Manchu Autonomous County and 80 kilometers east of Benxi urban city. The mountain belongs to the branch range of Mount Changbai with the highest main peak altitude of 912.9 meters and coverage of about 20 li. It has been listed as historic reservation at both province level and city level. There are 5 main peaks spreading over the mountain called Yuanshiding in the center, Zhenwuding on the north, Lingbaoding on the south, Yuhuangding on the east and Taishangding on the west. So, looking upward from views on the east, the south and the north, three main peaks can be seen every time relatively making 9 by three times three. The mountain is named after its 9 main peaks as Mount Jiuding Tiecha. The mountain is known as a place of origin for northeast Taoism with grotesque peaks thrusting towards the sky, luxuriant verdure, ridges and peaks rising one after another, aged trees raising to the sky, deep cave and beautiful landscape. Many caves scatter around the mountain such as Yunguang Cave, Tianqiao Cave, Qiankun Cave, Riguang Cave, Fengyue Cave, Xuanshi Cave, Guozu Cave and Sanxian Cave. Among them, Eight-treasure Yunguang Cave is taken for granted as the most famous one. Tale story told that celestial LI with long eyebrow used to cultivate virtue energy and once YANG Junbao learned with a master for skills in wushu right here. Upon oblique glance upward, it can be seen that the cave is about 30 meters deep and 7 to 10 meters wide. There are eight treasures found in the cave, i.e. pearl for calming down wind, the god of longevity made of stone, stone tiger, stone dragon, stone toad, stone bed, stone lotus and stone wooden fish. Outside the cave, 10 Chinese characters known as Jiuding Tiecha Mountain & Eight-treasure Yunguang Cave have been engraved. At the same time, inscriptions on precipices can be seen everywhere. Among them, it is worth having a look at the inscriptions named living as long as universe exists with 8 meters high and 5 meters wide. Monumental writing consists of more than 800 Chinese characters shaped like big plates on precipices. The forcible and vigorous style of stone inscriptions, embodied by rising straight up to the sky, the universe filled with healthy trends and 3000 years of Tiecha, takes tourists’ breath away in astonishment. Taoist priests on the mountain are responsible for the protection of the forest as well as the temple. Mount Jiuding Tiecha Scenic Spot enjoys reputation worldwide after being recorded in Dictionary for Places of Historic Interests in China. Wangtian Cave Wangtian Cave, located 30 kilometers south of Huanren County, stands on the bank of Daya River and beside No.201 state road as a cave formed in the mountain. Though the mountain is not popular and the cave is not striking to the public, you can’t resist the temptation coming from the high, deep, quiet and remote style of the cave when stepping inside. Looking upward from the huge parlor upon entering, blue sky and white clouds attract your eyes through the opening on the top of the cave. That is the reason why it is called Wangtian Cave. Wangtian Cave was formed about 200000 ago with more than 7000 meters long extending from the entrance to the far end. The largest parlor in the cave covers about 6000 square meters. It is well known for the largest stalagmite cave in the northeast of China which can hold about 10000 tourists at one time. More than 30 water pools up to 7 meters deep and 7 underground rivers with about 400 meters long spread and wind their ways in the cave. It is interesting for them to disappear and reappear alternately without drying up in a year round. The sparkling and translucent stalagmites all over the cave give out fascinating and charming presentation. The clear and gentle water reflects the white flatten bottom of Huaqing Pool. A column of stalagmite stands quietly near the pool like a guard for the girl taking a bath. Attend to state affairs behind a curtain shows imperial figure when dense stalagmites resemble layers of golden curtains and a statue of Laofoye sits there lost in thought. Exquisite and small Cloisonne naturally grown in the cave are presented in apparently different colors, i.e. yellow on the top while blue at the bottom shaped like a vase. You will be filled with admiration at the glance of the tremendous momentum of Pearl Wall. The stalactites in different poses and expressions everywhere seem like peak or summit, tower or Buddha, flower or waterfall and tree or bamboo shoot. In the cave, the road winds its way up and down occasionally. Only one person either fat or thin can pass at the narrowest position. In maze, tourists feel interested in figuring out way among the similar and perplexing roads. However, each road leads you out of the maze and presents particular scenery outside different from others. There are 3 floors in the maze including the upper floor, the middle floor and the lower floor. Any cave is connected with another and any exit is accessible to another. Wangtian Cave has been taken as a wonderful scroll painting full of confusion and wit rather than a scenic spot. The Spa Temple The Spa Temple, situated at 37 kilometers east of Benxi urban area and 5 kilometers south of Benxi Water Cave, is a place of historic interest at state level and a popular health resort. It faces Taizi river by backup of layer upon layer of mountains covered with green trees. Mountains standing around and water flowing through provide the area with quiet environment and fresh air. It takes on different looks in a year round, such as wide flowers flourishing in the spring out, lotus and green grass swinging in the summer sightseeing, red maple leaves presenting in the autumn view and trees covered with snow standing in the winter visit. The maximum daily outflow of water can be up to 470 tons with water outlet temperature at 49°C. The ever-flowing spring water containing rich mineral resources belongs to hot spring with lemery sodium type, calcium ion, weak base, weak radiation and low mineralization which take effect on the treatment of arthritis, rheumatism, numb limb, neuritis and dermatoses. It is said that Nuerhachi, the founder of Qing Dynasty, once came to the Spa Temple for hunting. The hunting dog suffered from scabies could not be cured by lots of doctors’ prescriptions. But when it happened to bathe in the spring, it recovered from the disease soon along with hair refreshing as usual. Nuerhachi was so excited that he named the place as Gouer Soup. Since then, the Spa Temple has been famous worldwide. In July 1626, Nuerhachi returned in order to cure his wounds in spring water. After Benxi’s liberation, the Spa Temple has been repaired and built up for several times and took on a new look through expansion and beautifying in recent years compared to the deserted ruins before liberation. Health care situation are improved and railway and road have free access to the Spa Temple. In addition, the Spa Temple attracts tourists for sightseeing which takes advantages of lying adjacent to Benxi Water Cave. More and more people come here to recuperate. The Spa Temple is always ready to serve tourists and people for recuperation with new appearance. Wangxi Park Wangxi Park, built in the center of the city, is regarded as a large comprehensive park in a saddle shape. It covers the area of 42 hectares with altitude of 240 meters. Climbing the top and looking around, the whole city will jump into your eyes. The most attractive scenery initiates from Taizi River running through the city. This is the reason why it has been called Wangxi Park (the park for an overview of Benxi City). Green and luxuriant are the trees and well spaced are the pavilions and terraces in the park. Meanwhile, rear and valuable animals walk pleasantly and exotic trees and flowers boom lovely in it. The monument for people’s heroes stands upright at the top of the park engraved with handwritings of old proletariat revolutionists such as DONG Biwu, ZHU De and XIE Juezai. The four sides of monument base are inlayed with marble relief. You can directly get to the monument by going up about 430 steps from the front gate of the park. Beautiful small gardens in Wangxi Park like Jifangyuan, Liuyuan and Fenghuayuan decorate the park with splendid sceneries. The heart linkage bridge hanging in the air enforces the true love. Boat rowing on the Swan Lake full of ripples and red-crowned cranes and peacocks flying freely in the park are sketching the peaceful and elegant picture which is taken as the oasis in the urban area. In recent years, Wangxi Park has taken on a new look when a large sum of investment of tens million yuan was put in for transformation. The park has gradually become the resort for residents’ entertainment and sightseeing. It is the right time for you to experience the peculiar landscape of Wangxi Park. Mount Pingding Mount Pingding, located in the south of Benxi urban area, is regarded as the tower of strength for Benxi City with the altitude of 657 meters. The flat top covers about 250 mu attributed to the name Mount Pingding (flat top mountain). The top is surrounded with lofty and towering cliffs likely cutting by knife and axe. Standing on the northern cliff, the big mountain city can be taken in at a glance. So, the ideal place to view the whole city lies in here. There are roads directly leading to the top on the south of the mountain. The newly built cable way takes the place of going up on foot and puts the hard work of climbing mountain aside. A collection of ancient stone tablets happens to be on the top. Other interesting places such as ancient temple, the Long Corridor, TV rebroadcast station and relics of war can also be found. It has been planned to build up the top as an alpine plant garden step by step. Mount Pingding, serves like the bodyguard for Benxi City, are contested by all strategists from ancient times to the present. Nantian Gate Nantian Gate, lies in Nanfen District of Benxi, is characterized by dangerous and high rock likely cutting with knife and axe. There is a large opening in the rock on the summit with a huge stone standing on the left and ridge on the right. The opening is pressed horizontally on the flat stone that seems like a gate from a far distance. The southern sky can be seen through the gate so that the name of Nantian Gate is given. From Benxi to Dandong, Nantian Gate is the only way which must be passed. The road winds its way up to the top. You can’t let out a sigh of relief unless the strategic pass and the gate are passed through. Sheer rock stands on the right of Nantian Gate with Xi River beneath it. The rail bridge spans the river valley. While looking down by chance, you will feel dizzy and be terrified by the sight of deep valley. Many well known movies like Young Heroes and Heroines were shot on the location here. One never passes without stopping a while for sightseeing. Mount Miaohou Mount Miaohou, located on the east of Shanchengzi Village of Shanchengzi Town in Benxi County, is a cultural relic of the Paleolithic Period. The mountain taking shelter from the wind and facing south looks like the shape of a dragon lying in the green trees and clear water. Up to now, more than 400 precious historical relics, including skull fossil of baby, radius fossil of human being, old stone tool, bone object, pottery, Rhinoceros merki tooth fossil and white tooth fossil of Dahe leopard cat etc., have been dug out by archaeologists since 1978 through 4 times of integrated excavation. After check and examination, it is confirmed that they belong to the early stage of the Paleolithic Period about 300000 to 400000 years ago. The discovery of the ancients relics at Mount Miaohou added an illustrious chapter to the primitive culture of Liaoning Province and thrown the first light on the ancients’ history in Liaoning region. It is the symbolization for ancient civilization in Benxi. The historical relics found in Mount Miaohou relics are shown in the above 3 pictures known as the ancients’ tooth, stone object for grinding and pottery vase etc. They witnessed the ancients’ history of Benxi to the full. Dishui Cave Dishui Cave, situated in the deep valley on the west of Laomu Mountain, is 7.5 kilometers south of Benxi urban area and surrounded by green mountains. A clear stream going through the rocks on the mountain pours downward from cliffs about 30 meters high to form the waterfall. In rainy season, the sound of waterfall roars echoes in the valley because of adequate rainfall. A water curtain can be seen with murmuring stream and small drops when it rains less. In winter, all mountains turn white covered with snow and water drops are frozen and hung up from the exit of cliff to the valley bottom much like a dragon. How beautiful the scenery is. There are five caves with different sizes on the wall of valley bottom. In addition, one natural plank road going through the bottom of waterfall with one meter wide has integrated the charm of the water curtain cave. The gorgeous and dangerous landscape can take your breath away in astonishment when cliffs, precipices, waterfall, rainbow, blue sky and white cloud are viewed at a glance from the bottom upward. Being overlooked from the top, the huge rocks wildly spread and disorderly displayed at the bottom of the valley form a peculiar style. Welcome all to visit Dishui Cave for enjoying the cool, relieving summer heat and preventing sunstroke. Tang Valley Tang Valley, lies in Hujiapu Village of Caohezhang Town in Benxi County, is 78 kilometers away from Benxi urban area. The beautiful scenery of forest zone of Tang Valley has been spoken highly especially the geothermal resources enjoy widespread renown for the best resort in eastern part of Liaoning so far as traveling, recuperation and sunstroke prevention are concerned. The spring water in Tang Valley flows plentiful with high pressure and large coverage according to the investigations. The exposed geothermal water covers about 20 mu at Tang Valley with daily outflow up to more than 3000 tons. The temperature of surface water ranks the first position in Liaoning Province at 76°C. Many chemical elements and minerals contained in the water including nitrate manganese, nitrate, potassium ion, calcium ion, fluorine iodide ion, chlorine ion and sulfate radical ion take outstanding effect on the treatment of arthritis, dermatoses, indigestion and numb limb. Several precious fish such as rainbow trout can be bred in the pools built with spring water. The rate of forest coverage in Tang Valley can be up to 95% deserves for the name of forest park at state level. Valuable ornamental flowers like Magnolia Sieboldii and northeast wild ginseng and wild animals like bear, boar and squirrel find the mountain as the best place to dwell on. The so called Mount Bijia with three peaks standing like the three legs of a tripod and primitive forest on Mount Heshangmaozi are located there. There is a collection of relics concerning the first meeting on western fight again Japanese held by the Anti-Japanese Amalgamated Army of the Northeast, Jingyu Stone on which general YANG Jingyu known as anti-Japanese hero once rested and monument for tracing days back. A large sum of precious and fragrant Magnolia Sieboldii, named as city flower, grow on the mountain with the reputation for hometown of it. Recently, Tang Valley Scenic Spot has been developed to improve the infrastructure facilities by sparing no effort. The multifunctional development zone integrating tourism, holiday spending, recreation, recuperation, conference, business and trade has taken preliminary shape. It is bound to take a new look to the public in the near future. Dashi Lake Dashi Lake, located in the deep valley, is 5 li south of Dashihu Village of Lanheyu Town in Benxi County with 5 lakes and 4 waterfalls connecting one to another like steps. Cliffs stand along the two sides of the valley. The bottom of valley is dotted with stone troughs. A stream coming from Xiangshui Ridge rushes past and forms a lake at the first turn of valley called the No.1 Lake. The river bed at No.1 Lake is blocked by a huge rock resulted in the formation of a waterfall with difference of 2 meters. Water drops from the No.1 Lake and forms the No.2 Lake. At the same time, water comes down from the breach in the stone trough of No.2 Lake with difference of about 2 meters and forms No.3 Lake. The blackish green water in the No.3 Lake is too deep to be fathomable without withered leaves floating on the surface. So, it is named as Chenye Pool popular with many miraculous folk tale stories. Successively, No.4 Lake goes after No.3 Lake connecting with a waterfall at the same time. Water drops down from the rock slot along the slope to No.5 Lake. Here, stream turns out to flow gently. Dashi Lake is a natural place for sightseeing with steep cliffs along the banks, high mountains and dense woods and a large variety of birds and animals. Huanlong Lake Huanlong Lake, situated on the north of Huanren Town and in the middle reach of Hun River, was completed and stored water in 1968. The reservoir extends 81 kilometers long with the maximum width of 4 kilometers. It covers the area of 148000 mu while the total capacity for water storage can be up to 3.46 billion cubic meters. The reservoir is known as the largest breeding base for fresh water fish in Liaoning with average depth of 15 meters and maximum depth of more than 60 meters. National Forest Park lies in the reservoir area while they back up with each other. The paradise owing to the perfect integration between water and mountain, i.e. water is surrounded with mountain while mountain becomes vivid because of water, has been spoken highly as the result of the secret workings of nature. Our beloved motherland combines blue water, green mountains, fresh air, sailing boats, flying birds and expanse of misty all together and arouses the lofty sentiments of tourists. National Forest Park of Huanren Reservoir Area covering 4600 hectare are divided into countless peculiar peaks by the exceedingly great lake. Many natural scenic spots can be viewed by boat including Mount Xiaoao, Sancenglazi, Wangjiang Tower, Mamian Stone and Tiger Cave. What’s more, Mount Wunu renowned for its legend both at home and abroad is involved in the area. A complete set of service facilities have been established in National Forest Park of Huanren Reservoir Area. Meanwhile, a professional team consists of young people has been well trained in order to provide tourists with high quality service. They will plunge into their work with immense zeal and look forward to your visit.