{"id":6164,"date":"2011-09-07T01:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2017-05-24T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T06:52:32","slug":"nine-bend-river-rafting-wuyi-mountains-my-first-nine-bend-stream-rafting-in-mount-wuyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/fujian-travel\/wuyishan-travel\/nine-bend-river-rafting-wuyi-mountains-my-first-nine-bend-stream-rafting-in-mount-wuyi","title":{"rendered":"Nine Bend River Rafting Wuyi Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"
Plan your Fujian Tour<\/a><\/span><\/strong>? Riding a bamboo raft down the Nine Bend-stream in Wuyi Mountains\u00a0in Fujian Province\u00a0is the highlight for your trip to Wuyi\u00a0Mountains. The Nine-bend River Pier is located Xincun Village, about 8km from Wuyi Mounatains Resort. You either can take a public bus N0.06 or use the shuttle buses inside Mount Wuyi Scenic Area.<\/p>\n

The Nine-bend Stream rafting is on the same sightseeing travel route with Tianyou Peak hiking. You may first visit Tianyou Mountains in the morning, the take the bamboo rafting or vice versa.<\/p>\n

The 9.5km long Nine-bend River rafting takes about 1.5 – 2 hours, with its flowing\u00a0water winding along the mountains for 9 twists, hence the name of Nine-bend River Stream. The two banks\u00a0of the Nine-bend River are teemed with high peaks, unique rocks and dense forest trees. The river embraces the each bends of the Nine-bend Stream, creating a beautiful Chinese mountain and river landscape painting.<\/p>\n

You will take the bamboo craft down the river\u00a0from the ninth bend to the last bend.\u00a0The\u00a0raft ride\u00a0is smooth with occasional bumpy currents. In the course of\u00a0the bamboo rafting, raise your head to view cliffs, dramatic peaks;\u00a0lower your\u00a0head\u00a0to see the transparent and shallow stream, use your ears to hear the stream flowing sound.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0raft tours end is Wuyi Palace. A formerly a temple\u00a0built to offer sacrifices to Lord Wuyi, now it has a 300 meters long Song Dynasty Street. Wuyi Palace also which now houses the administration office in charge of affairs associated with the mountains.<\/p>\n

The Nine-bend River Pier has two wharfs – Wharf\u00a0One and Wharf Three. Normally you will be arranged at Wharf One.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Local villagers are selling sun hats and fish baits. There are lots of fresh water fish in the river, fish baits add much fun to your rafting.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This is Wharf No. One of Xincun Nine-bend River Pier. Each raft\u00a0is requested to\u00a0hold 6 passengers with two drivers at front and back. If you travel individually, you have to wait for other individual travelers for a total number of 6 people, so you can start your bamboo rafting on a party of 6 people sitting on bamboo chairs fixed the raft.<\/span><\/div>\n
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This is Wharf No. One of Xincun Nine-bend River Pier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Some pictures taken from my first rafting on the Nine-bend River in Wuyi Mountains<\/span><\/div>\n
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Raft 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Raft 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 12<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Raft 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"06611\"Tip:\u00a0 Hassle-free Wuyishan Guided Tours
\n<\/strong>If you don\u2019t want to go the do-it-yourself route and prefer the hassle-free escorted tours,\u00a0 here are some options for guided tours to Wuyishan:<\/p>\n

Wuyi Mountain 3 Days Tour<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 from US$265<\/span><\/p>\n

Mount Wuyi 4 day Tour<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from US$320<\/span><\/p>\n

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Further Readings<\/h2>\n
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Top Things to Do in Wuyishan<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Time to Visit Wuyishan<\/a><\/p>\n

Wuyishan Airport<\/a><\/p>\n

Wuyishan Railway Station<\/a><\/p>\n

Impression Dahongpao<\/a><\/p>\n

Water Curtain Cave<\/a><\/p>\n

Dahongpao Tea Trees<\/a><\/p>\n

Xiamei Village<\/a><\/p>\n

Any questions, just drop a line.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plan your Fujian Tour? Riding a bamboo raft down the Nine Bend-stream in Wuyi Mountains\u00a0in Fujian Province\u00a0is the highlight for your trip to Wuyi\u00a0Mountains. The Nine-bend River Pier is located Xincun Village, about 8km from Wuyi Mounatains Resort. You either can take a public bus N0.06 or use the shuttle buses inside Mount Wuyi Scenic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wuyishan-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22453,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions\/22453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tour-beijing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}