What are the fun attractions in Chuxiong?

10. Shiyang Ancient Town

Shiyang Ancient Town

Shiyang Ancient Town is one of the first three historical and cultural towns announced in Yunnan. Between the three cities of Chuxiong, Dali and Panzhihua, it is within the medium-range travel distance of Kunming and Dali. The Confucius Temple in the ancient town contains the best-preserved and largest bronze statue of Confucius today.

9. Zixi Mountain Scenic Area

Zixi Mountain Scenic Area

The forest coverage rate of Zixi Mountain Scenic Area reaches 96%, and the main peak is 2,500 meters above sea level. The largest natural park in Yunnan Province. The entire mountain peak is lush, densely covered with forests, lined with ancient temples, and has a unique landscape. It is a fascinating plant kingdom and a world inhabited by more than a hundred species of birds and animals.

8. Heijing Ancient Town

Heijing Ancient Town

Heijing is one of the only 9 salt wells in Dali. Heijing Ancient Town has a long history and economic development. Prosperous and profound in culture, it is known as "the lost salt city and the living fossil of Ming and Qing architecture".

7. Yuanmou Man Museum

Yuanmou Man Museum

The Yuanmou Man Museum is 1.7 million years old and is the ancestor of Chinese human history. The Yuanmou Man Museum displays the Paleolithic, Neolithic, and microlithic tools of the prehistoric culture to people, and displays 1,500 cultural relic specimens and more than 500 pictures.

6. Yi Ancient Town

Yi Ancient Town

The Yi Ancient Town is a cultural tourism project integrating commerce, residence and cultural tourism. With the building as the platform and Yi culture as the "soul", it integrates multiple functions such as cultural scenic spots, tourist distribution centers, and urban reception rooms, becoming a bright city card of Chuxiong.

5. Yuanmou Earth Forest

Yuanmou Earth Forest

When you walk into Yuanmou Earth Forest and see the various shapes, you feel like you have entered another novel world. . Speaking of the wonders of using soil as a forest, the Yuanmou Earth Forest is truly a treasure. Its clusters of columnar terrain look like a forest from a distance, which is very strange.

4. Wuding Lion Mountain

Wuding Lion Mountain

The main peak of Wuding Lion Mountain is 2419.8 meters above sea level, with an average annual temperature of 13.2°C and no severe cold in winter. , there is no scorching heat in summer, it is a scenic spot with a mountain, a lake and a lake as its main body, integrating landscape, cultural relics, humanities, geology and ethnic customs.

3. Chuxiong Prefecture Museum

Chuxiong Prefecture Museum

Chuxiong Prefecture is the earliest ancestor of the Chinese people, the hometown of the Lufeng dinosaur, and the place where the bronze drum has been discovered so far. The earliest places were very rich in cultural relics and culture.

2. Yao'an Guanglu Ancient Town

Yao'an Guanglu Ancient Town

Yao'an Guanglu Ancient Town has a long history and profound cultural heritage. It is one of the eight famous towns in Dali. Yao'an is also the only place that the ancient Silk Road must pass through. It is also the choke point from the Central Plains to Dianchi Lake and Erhai Lake. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

1. Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley

Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley

Lufeng World Dinosaur Valley is a place named "China Yunnan Lufeng Dinosaur National Geopark" "Based on the burial sites of dinosaur fossils in the inner stone class, it is a popular science tourism base and a dinosaur cultural tourism theme park. Visitors can enter the Dinosaur Kingdom here, travel through the Jurassic World, and interpret the rise and fall of life on earth.