Three Gorges Dam tourist area

Three Gorges Dam tourist area

Located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, the Three Gorges Dam tourist area was officially opened to the outside world in 1997. In 2007, it was rated as one of the first batch of national 5A tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration. Now it has Tanziling Park, 185 Park and river closure Memorial Park, covering a total area of 15.28 square kilometers.

Relying on the Three Gorges project, the largest water conservancy project in the world, the tourist area displays the engineering culture and water conservancy culture in an all-round way, provides tourists with multi-functional services of sightseeing, science and education, leisure and entertainment, and organically combines modern engineering, natural scenery and cultural landscape, making it a tourist attraction for friends at home and abroad.

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History of scenic spots

The Three Gorges Dam tourist area was officially opened to the outside world in 1997, and was rated as one of the first batch of national AAAAA tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration in 2007.

geographical environment

The Three Gorges Dam tourist area is located in the middle of Xiling Gorge, Sandouping in Yichang City, Hubei Province, 38 kilometers away from the downstream Gezhouba Water Control Project in Yichang, which is the largest water control project in the world.

Practical information

Ticket information

Tickets are free (but you need to make an appointment online in advance. Please refer to the official website for the reservation website);

Sightseeing bus routes (Tanziling Park, 185 View Garden, river closure Memorial Park) 35 yuan.

Best time to play

It is the best from June to July (with abundant rainfall and flood discharge).

Clothing

In midsummer, the temperature in the scenic area after direct sunlight is very high. If you go to the scenic area at this time, you need to protect yourself from sunstroke. It is important to replenish water in time.

Real name authentication

From April 23, 2019, the real name system will be implemented in the Three Gorges Dam tourist area. Visitors need to use their second generation ID card for face recognition before entering the park.

Offer information

On August 7, 2020, Hubei Province announced that the province's A-level scenic spots are free of tickets for tourists from all over the country. This activity started on August 8 and lasted until the end of the year. The Three Gorges Dam tourist area is one of them.

Traffic information

Internal transportation

1. From the "tourist transfer center" of the scenic spot, tourists can take the sightseeing bus to visit the whole scenic spot. The ticket price of the scenic spot is 35 yuan. After booking the ticket, you can pay the ticket online directly and get the ticket at the scene without queuing up. The bus takes about 20 minutes to reach Tanziling, 185 scenic spots and the river closure Memorial Park (line B is less than the river closure Park).

2. In addition to the sightseeing bus, there is also a kind of battery car in the scenic area, which is not under the management of the scenic area. It is operated by a private company. It costs 10 yuan for one-way, including one section of route, 20 yuan for two-way, including three sections of route. Please ask the ticket seller or guide for details.

External traffic

1. At the gate of the Great Three Gorges International Travel Agency (80 Dongshan Avenue) in Yichang City, you can take the shuttle bus to the tourist transfer center of the scenic spot, two times a day, departure time: 8:30, 14:00. The round trip costs about 40 yuan, and the one-way trip takes about an hour.

2. The Three Gorges tourist center (No.142 Yanjiang Avenue) in Yichang city has two buses every day to the tourist transfer center of the scenic spot, which starts from 8:00 a.m. and 13:00-14:00 p.m. The cost is 150 yuan (including round-trip fare and scenic spot ticket).

3. In Yichang City, take bus No.4, 100, 101, 10 and get off at "yemingzhu" station. After getting off, there is No.8 parking lot not far from the right front. Take bus No.8 (no.216, i.e. No.8) to liushuwan station. After getting off, you can see the sign of "visit the Three Gorges Dam tourist reception center" on the back of the platform. You can walk about 5 minutes to the tourist center of the scenic spot. You can also take the shuttle bus to Zigui new County in yemingzhu. Along the way, you can visit Three Gorges stone carvings and Xianren bridge in wangjiaping. There is a bus every morning and evening.

4. Take bus No.3, 4, 9, 21, 100 to the gate of the Great Three Gorges International Travel Agency at No.80 Dongshan Avenue (opposite Pinghu Hotel), and transfer to the special bus to get to the scenic spot.

5. The Three Gorges tourist center (No.142 Yanjiang Avenue) in Yichang city has two buses every day to the tourist transfer center of the scenic spot, which leaves between 8:00 a.m. and 13:00-14:00 p.m. The cost is 150 yuan (including round-trip fare and scenic spot sightseeing fare).

6. Take a self driving car to the toll station of Yichang Dongshan Development Zone via Hanyi expressway, enter the special highway for the Three Gorges Dam, and go through the park entry procedures at the reception station of the Three Gorges Dam tourist area. After driving to the Three Gorges Dam tourist transfer center, transfer to the scenic spot bus tour.

Main attractions

Interception Memorial garden

There is an exhibition room in the river closure Memorial Park. You can learn about the Three Gorges project through the graphic materials in the exhibition room. In the park, you can also see the rockery landscape composed of three-dimensional triangular river closure stones, as well as large-scale construction machinery and other physical exhibitions. Because it is located in the downstream of the dam, it has become an excellent place to take a panoramic view of the Three Gorges dam. Tourists like to take photos with the dam as the background.

Tanziling

Tanziling scenic spot is one of the first AAAAA scenic spots in China, and it is also the first scenic spot developed in the Three Gorges dam area. In 1997, it officially began to receive tourists from home and abroad. It is named because its top viewing platform looks like an inverted jar. The site of the scenic spot is the dam construction survey point, with an altitude of 262.48 meters, which is a scenic spot The best place to enjoy the panoramic view of the Three Gorges project is not only to enjoy the magnificence of the Three Gorges Dam, but also to see the two-way five stage ship lock of the fourth gorge of the Yangtze River.

The whole park is divided into three layers from top to bottom with increasing height. It is mainly composed of model exhibition hall, Wannian river bottom stone, Dajiang river closure stone, foundation stone of Three Gorges dam site, yinban Tianshu and Tanziling viewing platform. There are fountains, waterfalls, streams and lawns running through the park. When you look around, you can see movement in stillness and stillness in movement.

In Tanziling, you can overlook the dam and the Yangtze River. The flood discharge scenic spot is magnificent and thunderous. In the 185 meter water level view area, there is a sharp contrast between the gaoxiaping Lake in the upstream of the dam and the surging river in the downstream. There are rich and colorful songs, dances and other performances in the river closure Memorial Park, which is also the internal traffic center of the scenic area.

185 scenic spots

185 scenic spot is located at the left bank port of the highway on the top of the Three Gorges dam. It is named because it is as high as the top of the Three Gorges Dam and 185 meters above sea level.

Looking down from the platform, you can feel the height of the dam as if you are on the top of the dam. At the same time, the water level of 135 meters above sea level also enables us to enjoy the feeling of Pinghu here. We can see that the upstream breakwater and the upstream concrete cofferdam of phase III project will also be submerged or annihilated with the progress of the project. However, when the project is fully completed, in addition to the landscape of Pinghu Lake at an altitude of 175 meters, it will be an ideal place to visit the ship lift.

Visitors climb on the 185 meter high dam crest in Shanghai and look down at the flood discharge scene from a close distance. The thunderous torrent is trampled under their feet. They feel that it will be more spectacular and direct than before. Standing on the top of the dam, looking at the magnificent white waves at the foot of the flood discharge. The quiet river in the distance makes tourists feel the beauty of stillness and movement. If it's sunny, you can see a beautiful rainbow in the water mist on the flood releasing wave.

Get honor

In February 2015, it was awarded the honorary title of "the fourth national civilized unit" by the Central Steering Committee of spiritual civilization construction.

Address: Three Gorges dam area, sandaoping Town, Yiling District, Yichang City

Longitude: 111.052836

Latitude: 30.834984

Tel: 4001175185

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