The scenery along National Highway G348 is absolutely stunning for those who want to take it easy and just go with the flow

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✅ Yichang City ➡️ Sanyou Cave (🚗30 minutes)
✅ Listening to the Wind Valley (🚗20 minutes) ➡️ Shanwai Mountain (🚗10 minutes) ➡️ Mingyue Terrace (🚗15 minutes)
✅ Ganggouzi Bridge (🚗30 minutes) ➡️ Liantuo Riverside (🚗10 minutes) ➡️ Niugan Mapei Gorge (🚗40 minutes) ➡️ Zigui Xintan Ferry Terminal (🚗1 hour)
Recommended Activities
✅ Sanyou Cave
Named after the Tang dynasty poets Bai Juyi, Bai Xingjian, and Yuan Zhen who toured here together, this thousand-year-old karst cave is famous for its cliff carvings, spectacular stalactites, and dangerous river viewing platforms.
Recommended activities: Explore the cave and admire the stone carvings, climb the Chusai Tower to overlook the Yangtze River, visit Zhang Fei’s Drum Beating Platform, and taste Lu You Spring water. Suggested visit time: 2-3 hours. You can purchase a combined ticket to visit nearby attractions.
✅ Listening to the Wind Valley
Features a 12-meter-high suspended platform with views of Yichang city and surrounding mountains. The hollowed-out design is beautiful, and the long corridor greenway is perfect for a leisurely walk 🚶‍♀️
Recommended activities: 📸 Photo check-in: Take photos of the gorge scenery from the viewing platform. 👀
✅ Shanwai Mountain
Known for its sea of flowers.
Recommended activities:
📸 Photo check-in: Take commemorative photos with the flower sea and viewing platform as the backdrop.
✅ Mingyue Terrace
Features a viewing platform shaped like a “Heavenly Palace,” offering views of the Xiling Gorge landscape.
Recommended activities:
📸 Photo check-in: Take photos at the “Heavenly Palace” viewing platform with the Three Gorges stone carvings, suspension bridge, and other sights.
🌄 Enjoy the scenery: Look out over the rolling mountains and magnificent gorge.
✅ Ganggouzi Bridge
Recommended activities:
📸 Photo check-in: Capture panoramic shots of the bridge and gorge from the bridgehead viewing platform.
🌉 Experience the suspended plank bridge: Try the thrilling iron chain plank bridge hanging below the bridge.
✅ Liantuo Riverside
Formed by ecological restoration of an abandoned shipyard, it features the “Exploration Windmill,” “Time Ferry,” a sea of pink muhly grass, and a waterside viewing platform.
Recommended activities:
📷 Photo check-in: Take photos with the pure white “Exploration Windmill,” romantic “Time Ferry,” pink muhly grass, and waterside platform against the backdrop of the Yangtze River.
🚶 Stroll and sightsee: Walk along the riverside trail or waterside boardwalk to enjoy the magnificent view of the three Liantuo bridges and the Xiling Gorge landscape painting.
😴 Rest during a self-drive trip: As a service area on the G348 geological science road, it’s a good spot to park and relax while enjoying the river view.
🌃 Night tour and light show: After dark, enjoy the illuminated sights (such as the Exploration Windmill, Time Ferry, and Liantuo Riverside Bridge) for a different nighttime experience.
✅ Niugan Mapei Gorge
Recommended activities:
📍 View unique stones: See the relocated and protected “Niugan” stone at the Zigui Phoenix Mountain Scenic Area.
🚢 Take a boat tour: Enjoy the high gorge and flat lake scenery by boat and experience the grandeur of the gorge.
📸 Photo check-in: Capture the gorge landscape from the viewing platform.
✅ Zigui Xintan Ferry Terminal
Recommended activities:
📸 Photo check-in: Take photos of the Yangtze River scenery at the Orange House, viewing platform, and photo swing.
🌊 Enjoy the scenery: Look out over the wide river and calm lake, feeling the healing effect of “watching the sea.”
⛴️ Experience the ferry: Take the passenger ferry (about one trip per hour) or the motor ferry (4 trips daily) to feel the river breeze.