Bamboo Raft Drifting in Xianmen Qixia

The bamboo raft drifting in Xianmen Qixia is about 3 kilometers in length and takes about 90 minutes for a […]

The bamboo raft drifting in Xianmen Qixia is about 3 kilometers in length and takes about 90 minutes for a round trip. Tourists take bamboo rafts and shuttle back and forth in Lover Gorge, presenting a beautiful picture of ‘the waves in Lover Gorge are glittering, and bamboo rafts shuttle in Xiushui Gorge’. The cliffs on both sides of the canyon are in various shapes, like immortals coming in and out; the chirping of hundreds of birds is like lovers singing in antiphonal style; there is a rich variety of plants, which is truly a ‘grand botanical garden’.


Zhang Jiuling, a prime minister in the Tang Dynasty, once praised: ‘Lover Canyon is comparable to the Lijiang River, and Xianmen leads to the Xijing Road.’ Opening hours: Open from 09:00 to 17:30 from Monday to Friday throughout the year; open from 08:30 to 17:30 on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year; open from 08:30 to 17:30 on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day.


Tips: The Xianmen Qixia tourist scenic area belongs to a rare land fissure landform in the south and is one of the core scenic areas of the Nanling Mountains. It is a diversified tourist resort integrating cultural education, sports and entertainment, tourism, study tours, leisure and health preservation, and health and vacation. At present, the scenic area is actively creating a national AAAA-level scenic area cluster and creating a beautiful new business card for Shaoguan and even South China.


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