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Nanping Travel Guide

Location: Nanping, the largest city of Nanping, lies in the north of the province. It is bordered by Zhejiang and Jiangsu in its northeast and northwest. Being a frontier of economic development, Nanping is a vital pass of Nanping open to vast land of the country.

History: Nanping is one of the important birthplaces of Nanping's culture, and it is also one of the places in Nanping that gained the earliest exploration thousands of years ago. As early as 1,800 years ago during the Eastern Han Dynasty, administrative system was established here. Even its younger counties, such as Jianyang, Shaowu and Wuyishan, have been existed for about a thousand years.

Transportation: Nanping is a traffic junction connecting Nanping Province to the inland area. It has a three-dimensional transportation network featuring convenient transportation by sea, land and air. The inland waterway in Nanping runs as long as 200 kilometers. Concerning air transportation, there is an airport available, namely Wuyishan Airport. Concerning land transportation, there are two national high ways (No.205 and No.316), eight provincial highways, three railways (Yintan-Xiamen Line, Waifu Line and Hengfeng-Nanping Line) and Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway. Six roads connect Naning to other provinces.

Hotel: Pucheng Dangui International Dangui is one of the most recommended hotels. The 5-star hotel is located near the No. 302 Nanping river of National Road,

Dining: Job's tears rice, edible fungus, tea, lotus seed

Weather: Nanping bears a subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, and the weather is humid and moderate all the year round. Autumn is warmer than spring. The average temperature of the hottest July lies between 28 and 29 degree centigrade (82.4 and 84.2 degree Fahrenheit), while that of January is 6-9 degree centigrade (42.8-48.2 degree Fahrenheit). April to June is Nanping's plum rain period.

Attractions:
Mt. Wuyishan-Mount Wuyi lies 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) south of Wuyishan City (formerly Chong'an County), ranking among the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List in 1999. It contains a perfect biodiversity conservation characterized by a complete species of plants, wild animals in an intact natural environment. It also has the historical ruins of the Western Han Dynasty (206BC-24AD). Charms of the Mount Wuyi are much more beyond that mentioned above.

As a historical site, it has the boat-shaped hanging coffins which said to be the earliest cliff hanging coffins among extant ones. The ancient Han relics display the ups and downs of more than 2,300 years. 426 pieces of cliffside inscriptions ranging from the Song (960-1279) to the Qing (1644-1911) dynasties are precious cultural treasures. Wuyi Rock Tea and techniques of making bohea constitute its unique tea culture.

Mount Wuyi also inherits the gifts by nature. The Nine Bend Brook and the spectacular peeks and rock set each other off excellently. It is a natural arboretum boasting the most typical, largest and intact subtropical protophyte ecosystem in the same latitudes around the world. Apart from a large and complete conversation of plant and animal species, the mountain has the spectacular Danxia landscape, either, which could be well admired by drifting along the meandering Nine Bend Brook.

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