Overview:
Jinshajiang Bridge Hutiaoxia (香丽高速高铁虎跳峡金沙江大桥) is a prominent suspension bridge located just upstream from the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge in Yunnan Province, China. This bridge is renowned for its striking appearance and significant engineering achievements. It is one of the most photographed and recognized suspension bridges in Yunnan.

Scenic and Practical Impact: The bridge enhances the travel experience across the picturesque Jinsha River gorge and showcases significant advancements in bridge engineering, contributing to the improved accessibility of the scenic areas of Lijiang and Shangri-La.

Yujin Bridge

The meandering Heihui River runs through Shaxi from north to south in the east. There is a crescent-shaped ancient bridge, Yujin Bridge, across the river, which is set off by distant towering green mountains.Yujin bridge was built in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, a few hundred years war collapsed and damaged, in 1931, Yunnan Province Dali Shaxi Jianchuan County public fundraising to build ancient bridge, Bai famous scholar Zhao Fan as Yujin bridge repair specifically wrote “bridges offering cited”.

How to get to Yujin Bridge?

We can take the shuttle bus from Xiaguan(Dali) to Jianchuan County, and take a local minibus to Shaxi Town, then we can walk to Yujin Bridge directly.

History

Yujin Bridge was built in the Kangxi Period of the Qing Dynasty. After several centuries of collapse and destruction due to war, it was rebuilt in 1931. It has a height of 6 meters (12 meters clearance height), 35.4 meters length, 5 meters width, and fences made of stone slabs.

What to See

On one side, there is a stone-carved turtle head on the bridge vault looking at the upstream area of the Heihui River; on the other side, there is a turtle’s tail connecting the downstream part of this river. At the ends of the fences, there are four carved giant salamanders.

This ancient bridge is the only way for Bai people living in Shaxi to go to work in the fields and to do business. Stone slabs on its body have become shiny with green light but are also potholed due to the press and tread of carriages, horses and people.

It is a witness and carrier of Shaxi’s long history, greeting and sending off several generations of Shaxi ancestors. If you stand on the bridge looking back at Shaxi Ancient Town, you can see that there is a landscape painting under those mountains.

Nearby Attraction

Shaxi Ancient Town (沙溪古镇)

Shaxi Ancient Town is a pleasant surprise between Dali and Lijiang. Shaxi Ancient Town is a famous attraction once played an important role as a bustling trade point on the Tea Horse Caravan Road. With the decline of the ancient Tea Horse Road, the town seems to have been forgotten. But this helps retain the original appearance of the small town. Many of the historical sites have been well preserved including Sifang Street, Xingjiao Temple, Yuxi Bridge and Ancient Opera Stage. Compared with other commercialized ancient towns in China, the undeveloped Shaxi Ancient Town is a better place to escape from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis and experience the quaint lives of local Bai People

Best Time to Visit Yujin Bridge

You can visit Yujin Bridge between February to May since Shaxi enjoys the favorable climate and tranquil environment. The 8th day of the 2nd month on the lunar calendar can be the ideal time to enjoy the Taizi Festival, which is the grandest featival of Shaxi.

The Nujiang Railway Bridge (Darui Railway) is an impressive engineering feat located in Lamengxiang, Yunnan, China. Here are the key details about this remarkable structure:

Overview

Specifications

Design Features

Historical Context

The location of the railway bridge is near the famous Songshan Battlefield where the battle of Mount Song took place in 1944 between Chinese Nationalist Forces and the Japanese Army. The Japanese Army was holed up in deep tunnels and bunkers high along the river slopes to block troops on the Burma Road from crossing the suspension bridge over the Nujiang River. The slow battle went on for many months with heavy casualties before the Japanese troops retreated and the Burma Road was once again open to aid China with supplies.

The west railway tunnel is the 4th longest railway tunnel in the world excluding metro lines at 34.54 kilometers. Only the Gotthard, Seikan and Chunnel are longer.

The highline construction towers will rank as the tallest in the world along with the Yachi Railway Bridge in nearby Guizhou Province.

A map showing the Burma Road in brown and some of the strategic locations during the Songshan Battle.

The Nujiang Railway Bridge station will be the highest in the world at 212 meters.

A map of the Dali to Ruili Railway line with the Nujiang River Bridge crossing at the very bottom left and the Lancanjiang River Bridge crossing in the upper right.

Chinese Name:滇越铁路五家寨人字桥
English Name: Wujiazhai Ren-shaped Bridge of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway in Pingbian County, Honghe
Honghe Wujiazhai Ren-shaped Bridge of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway in Pingbian County, travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Wujiazhai Ren-shaped Bridge of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway in Honghe.滇越铁路五家寨人字桥

Dianyue(Yunnan-Vietnam) railway is not only the first railway of Yunnan but is the few in number “one-meter wide between the two rails” in the country. It was build by the Frence colonial authority based on the unequal treaty. Because the railway starts from Vietnamese’s Haifang , a city once the colony of France, passed through the border of China and Vietnam and comes into Yunnan, that is from Hekou extents north to Kunming , so the railway got the name “Dianyue railway” .

Based on the 《The Constitution of China and France’s Concluding and Designing Dianyue Railway》, the constitution which was designed between China and France in 1903, the French technicians were send to scouting the routes, planed to building the railway and established formally Dianyue Railway French Company. Vietnamese section includes the distance from Haifang to Lao Cail, and Dian’s section includes the distance from Hekou to Kunming of Yunnan Province. The railway’s last section starts from Hekou , passes through Bi Sezhai of Mengzi and ends at Kaiyuan,; the middle section starts from Kaiyuan, passes along Nanpanjing River to Panxi and ends at Yiliang,; the first section starts from Yiliang, passes through Chenggong and ends in Kunming. The railway was set up from 1901 and ended on 1st April , 1910, then the whole line was open to traffic.

The track gauge of the Railway is only one meter, the overall length is 855 kilometers, and Vietnamese section is 389 kilometers, the Dian’s section is 466 kilometers. The total cost of the whole line was about 159 million francs, one more times higher than the track gauge is 1.435 meters railway construction. Now, many old buildings such as Bi Sezhai railway station, the former site of Hekou post office, the former site of foreign settlement of Mengzi etc. had been remained alone the railway.

Hekou Customhouse was built in the year 1887, the total area of it is 1127 square meters, and it was one of the earliest customhouse of China. In addition, there were historic preservations such as France stationed Hekou authority agency, Hekou supervision and handling office.

Once for a long time, the Michelin Engine galloping on the Dianyue railway was a symbol of quick speed in ordinary people. When mentioned something’s speed was quick enough, one would say: how fast it would be? Is that quicker than Michelin Engine? The old staffs worked along the railway when mentioned the Michelin Engine now, they will be full of praise: that Engine is so quick that when you hear it roars in the distance, you raise your head and it has been gone away like wind.

The Michelin Engine once belonged to “noble train”，except for soft seat, there were western restaurants, bars, kitchens, washrooms, rest rooms and other service corollary equipments. It was said the waitresses were French beauties. In the year 1935, Mr. Jiang Jieshi encouraged to build Dianyue railway, and once had the plan to inspect it, but had to cancelled the project for his other business, and only his wife Mrs. Song Meiling had made the journey into realization, and the train she took was Michelin Engine, the comfort and the speed of the train had gave her great surprise, and she never thought that there was so excellent train in such huge mountain and gorge.

The reporter had seen the Michelin at depository of Kaiyuan locomotive depot Yiliang back-turning section. Glory and honor of the past had been cleaned by years, and the locomotive had only be left a shell, the inside decorate had nothing left, and one could’t tell where was the bar, where was the restaurant, 12 V-shaped cylinder stators had been bared outside. It was said the expensive aviation gasoline had been running in the engine, the words “red flag” on the head of the machine could be seen clearly, and the name was used during the Cultural Revolution, but common people still used to name it “Michelin”, and after liberation, Michelin was stopped to be used until it was difficult to get the installation kits to repair the machine in 1980’s.

Michelin had created a speed record in the past one hundred years, lots of people said the secret was on the tires of the machine. Over hundred of years, there is no trace of chap and adhesive on the tyres, the surface texture of the wheel is still distinct, the word “Michelin” could be seen clearly, people have to admire French’s the super technology level.

It was introduced that Kunming railway administration had invested over 800,000 yuan to repair the machine to display it in the exhibition. So we could not see it galloping on the rails, but at the least we could imagine its past heroic posture.

　 Three pieces of remarkable things had happened in Yunnan in the first half of the 20th century: the first was building Dianyue railway in the early times of the 20th century, the other were building Burma road and the Hump during the war of Anti-Japanese, and the three pieces of things made the world known Yunnan, and at the same time let Yunnan known the outside world of China. While the Dianyue railway, whether from the span of the time, the scope of the engineering and the influence to the development of Yunnan was the first of the three projects.

Dianyue railway was one of the most toughest projects in the world modern history. The overall length of the railway is 854 kilometers, 465 kilometers is in Yunnan and the other 389 kilometers is in Vietnam, and 178 bridges and 152 tunnels were built along the railway. Within the Yunnan section, over 60,000 workers were forced to build the railway, and among them, over 12,000 workers died in strange land for diseases, injury and other reasons, including over 800 foreign technicists.

Dianyue railway, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal were considered the three most toughest projects in the world.Dianyue Railway has great humanity value for it is not only one of the three plateau railways in the world, but is the only gage railway which is still in use in China, so it is the precious cultural relics, living specimen and fossil in the railway development of China, even the world as well.

There is one paragraph describing the scenery of Nanxihe river, which is one of the section Dianyue Railway passes by, in the book 《the Railway of Yunnan》which was written by a Frenchman: ” from the viewpoint of scenery, the natural landscape of Nanxihe river bend is the most magnificent, and it touches one’s heart most. Its steep hill, the boundless open fields, and majestic view would be compare with Alps.”

Grand sight is in the perilous peaks, but it is the most difficult thing to build railway in such difficult conditions. Everywhere in the mountains is dense forest and 2-3 meters high thistles and thorns, “it is impossible to enter the jungle without a dagger. And the jungle is also a zoo, there are lots of deers, monkeys, sometimes there also have leopards, even dangerous tigers, they get a great threat to the workers, horses, mules and doges’ safety.” In addition, the most difficulty to overcome during building the railway through the jungle is to handling the mountain collapsing and the great amount of the collapse rocks on the slope. It was said in the book《The Railway of Yunnan》: In the process of constructing the Railway, except 12,000 labors died for the construction, there also died over 80 “leaders” , almost all were French. They were buried at Kaiyuan and Zhicun village, just nearby the railways. One day in a summer, the reporter drove to Kaiyan to search for the graves of the French, asking for many people and meeting many troubles, the reporter got the information that there was a place named “Yangrenfen” in a fertilizer factory buried many foreigners, “it was said they died in the time of constructing the Railway.” After contacted with the propaganda department of the fertilizer factory, the reporter finally stepped into the area of the “foreigner grave” which were surrounded by walls, but instead the reporter saw numerous pots of flowers. When the gardener knew that the reporter came for the foreigner graves, he led him to a corner and pointed to corner and said:” there were all.” Push aside the grass, the reporter saw some graves as expected. They were short, on the head of each grave was carved some French words, perhaps they were the name of the dead. The local people said that in the past, the place had greater area, and was surrounded by stone walls, later the walls were pulled down for some people built house on it, and some bones were dug out.

The reporter listened silently and did not know how to estimate the Frenchmen who died here. At that moment he suddenly he thought of the consul general of France stationed in Yunnan, he had a Chinese name “Fangsuya”. Several years ago, a man from Kunming copied Fangsuya’ photos which were pictured in Yunnan, then he took them back to Kunming and displayed. The exhibition caused a great sensation. Undeniable, the French came to Yunnan and wanted made it their colony, and after Dianyue Railway was opened to traffic, it was like a suck blood vessel, plundered over 230,000 ton tin from Gejiu, impacted greatly to nation’s handicraft, so in for years of traditional education, these Frenchmen were invaders and bloodsuckers.

But when the time went to 21 century, the Railway became the door of Yunnan opened to outside world, and just this Railway drove the development of Yunnan’s economy and changed local people’s thought. It brought in western advanced cultural education, democratic and scientific thoughts. In the war of liberation, the Communist Party built secret traffic line alone the Railway, they passed message to their organization through the Railway, sent their excellent railway workers to revolutionary area, so the Railway had made contribution to Yunnan’s liberation.

After the first Opium War in 1840, the French invaders came into China, and in 1885, they opened the door of southwest of China by force, then they despoiled Yunnan’s railroading right. In March 1898, the minister of France stationed in China used the event helped Qing Dynasty returned Liaoning to China as the excuse to meet with the prime minister of Qing Dynasty, while putting forward the firm term of ceding Guangzhou Bay to France, they had also required that “China must permit France or French company build a railway from the border of Vietnam to Yunnan Province, and Qing replied “permissible to comply with the requirement.” So France obtained the right of building Dianyue Railway. In September, 1899, headed by Banque de I’IndoChine and other several organizations established Dianyue Railway Company, contracted the business of collecting money and construction. In October, 1903, France and China concluded and signed 《the Constitution of Dianyue Railway》, and in 1904, the part in Yunnan was started.

The construction of Dianyue Railway was built on the price of “A Spike A Drop of Blood, And A Crosstie A Life.” Most of the places that the Railway passes by are sparsely populated areas. There are 3628 bridges in the length of 466 kilometers railway, such as the herringbone bridge at Boduqing, the Railway bridge frames between two mountain cliffs, and from the bridge to ravine there are 90 meters, the length of this herringbone bridge is 65 meters, to finish it cost over a year. Because the engineering was so complex and enormous, the Frenchmen had invested more than 150 million francs, much higher than the cost of constructing Jinghan Railway or Pujin Railway. According to statistics, when the Railway was finished in 1910, more than 60,000—70,000 people died for it, even the local official of Yunnan at that time had to admitted “ The railway was really constructed by flesh and blood of our compatriot.”

We had to admit that for thousands years of primitive, closed and backward conditions of Yunnan was completely broke down just because of the Railway. It made Yunnan and the world began to realize each other, and from then on Yunnan’s history was changed for the rapid development of the society and economy , and Yunnan thus made a further influence to China’s recent history.

When the first roar of train was heard in the deep valley of Yunnan one hundred years age, the great shock it gave to common people was unprecedented.

After the Dianyue Railway was opened to traffic, some Frenchman had written final report in 《The Railway of Yunnan》like that:“ Yunnan’s real export is not in the east, namely Guangdong and HongKong direction, but in southeast directly from Honghe River Valley to Haiphong and Tokyo Bay dirction.”“Before Yunnan was collected with Tokyo Bay and the South China Sea by railway, anyone would not make Yunnan a valuable place.”

Yunnan immediately from closed border became the forefront of China. The first hydropower station of China—-Shilongba Hydropower Station was built near the Railway, in 1913, the Station began to supply power to Kunming. When the whole Beijing were using oil lamp at that time, the ordinary people of Kunming had been using electric light. In Kunming, there were various and numerous foreign firms, shops. English, French, German, Japanese, Greek could be heard everywhere, Chinese from other cities, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Henan and Tianjin gathered here, all of those made Yunnan become intersection of Chinese and Western culture. The tin industry developed quickly, it became the most important pillar of the economy of Yunnan, the output of tin from Gejiu was the second in the world, and so Gejiu city got the name of “Tin Capital”, many Podunk along the railway, such as Hekou, Mengzi, Gejiu, Kaiyuan etc were prosperous for the railway, they became developed counties of Yunnan Province.

About Honghe River Bridge

Honghe River Bridge is the largest bridge on the Yuanjiang to Maohei Expressway in Yunnan Province. It is located in Yuanjiang County, Yunnan Province and spans the Honghe River. The total width of the bridge is 22.5 meters. The height of the main pier of the bridge is 122 meters, and it is the highest bridge in the world when completed. The main beam was constructed by cantilever pouring method and opened to traffic in December 2002.

Where is Honghe River Bridge?

Yunnan Honghe River Bridge is located in the northwest of Yuanjiang county, Yunnan province, and is a extra-large bridge on the national road 213, Yuanjiang-Mohei(元江-磨黑) Highway.

Best Time to Visit

How to Get There

The best way to Honghe River Bridge is drive. You can stop and enjoy the scenery wherever you want. Besides, you can also take long-distance bus from Kunming to Yuanjiang county. It is about 200 kilometers from Kunming to Yuanjiang County, 3 hours.

Accommodation Around Honghe River Bridge

Honghe River Bridge is not far from the county seat of Yuanjiang County and Mojiang County, so you can stay in these two counties for overnight. Or you can also go to Kunming for accommodation, and you have more choices in Kunming.

Useful Travel Tips

2. Honghe River Bridge is very high and spectacular, take care of your safety when standing on the bridge.

Why is Longjiang Bridge So Special?

The Longjiang River Bridge or Longjiang Bridge is a suspension bridge near Baoshan, Yunnan, China. The main span of the bridge is 1,196 meters(3,924 ft) making it one of the longest ever built. The bridge is also one of the highest in world sitting 292 meters(958 ft) above the river below. The project cost around 1.96 billion Yuan.

Billed in the Chinese press as the longest and highest of its kind in Asia, the bridge completed construction in April, 2016 and was opened to traffic on May 1, 2016. The completion of Longjiang Bridge further links the cities of Baoshan and Tengchong. The roadway is a spur of the Baoteng Expressway (保腾高速公路), which skirts around the southern reaches of the nationally protected Gaoligong Mountains Nature Reserve.

The bridge project is also part of a larger effort to connect Yunnan’s impoverished west to the province’s more prosperous central region and, eventually, to neighboring Southeast Asian countries. The construction of the project is a landmark building to create “the journey of the history and culture, the journey of the natural landscape, the journey of the international channel” in Yunnan Province. It is of great significance to further improve the framework network of Yunnan’s high-speed highway network planning and to promote the harmonious development of the local economy and society.

Where is Longjiang Bridge?

Longjiang Bridge, also known as Longjiangte Bridge(龙江特大桥), is located in the west of Yunnan Province, the southern section of the Hengduan Mountains(横断山脉). The road bridge is vertical across the Longjiang River. It is a highway bridge on the S10 Baoteng(Baoshan-Tengchong) Expressway in Yunnan Province, and is also a key control project of the Baoteng Expressway. Longjiang Bridge is a steel box girder suspension bridge with two towers and one span. It is located at the junction of Tengchong City and Longling County. The height of bridge tower on the Longling side is 169.688 meters, and the tower height in Tengchong of Baoshan is 129.703 meters.

Construction History

On May 23, 2011, the Longjiang Bridge project, which was built by the China Second Highway Bureau, was officially implemented. On December 12, 2014, the construction side of the Longjiang Bridge used unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to pull the pilot rope across the river. The technology was first adopted for long-span suspension bridges in China. On July 30, 2015, the Longjiang Bridge began to install steel box girders. On October 30, 2015, the last steel box girder was hoisted and closed, and Nov. 23, 2015, the whole bridge connection started. On April 5, 2016, 68 vehicles weighing 35 tons (total weight 2380 tons) carried out static load tests and dynamic load tests on the Longjiang Bridge in four rows and passed successfully, which indicated that the bearing capacity of the bridge meets the design requirements. On April 20, 2016, the Longjiang Bridge was opened to traffic, which was announced by Ding Shaoxiang(丁绍祥), Vice Governor of the people’s Government of Yunnan Province, and attended by a number of officials in Yunnan Province.

Tourism

There is a service area set up on the Baoteng Expressway Longjiang Bridge, the side of Tengchong, and the International Tourism area of Longjiang Bridge will be constructed. Longjiang Bridge, built with tourist walkways, was opened for trial operation during the 2018 Spring Festival holiday, with a ticket price of 30 yuan per person, with half-price concessions for Baoshan locals. Someone has successful completed low-altitude parachutes at the Longjiang Bridge, however, the bridge administration department said that in order to strengthen management and ensure safety, such dangerous activity won’t be allowed to happen again.

Best Time to Visit

How to Get There

Longjiang Bridge is on the way to Tengzhong from Baoshan, so there are two routes you can choose from. One is going to Baoshan First, then take a taxi, long-distance bus or chartered bus, getting off at Longjiang Bridge. One is going to Tengchong City first, then go to Longjiang Bridge by taxi or minibus. Dali- Ruili railway with stop in Baoshan is an important part of the west route of the “Trans-Asian Railway Network”, which is under construction.

1. Kunming-Baoshan-Longjiang Bridge

Baoshan Yunrui Airport is situated at the southern part of Baoshan and is 9 kilometers from the downtown of Longyang District, Baoshan City. There are flights flying to and from Kunming, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Changsha, Xian, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Beijing, Guiyang, etc. There are more than 10 daily flights departing from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Baoshan Airport, and it takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes.

There are 15 daily long-distance departing from Kunming West Bus Station to Baoshan Bus Station.
Departing Time: 8:30, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:30, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 14:40, 17:00, 19:30, 20:30, 21:00, 21:30, 22:00
Price: 150-233 CNY
Distance: 511 Kilometers
Duration: About 7 hours

You can take long-distance bus to Tengchong Bus Terminal from Baoshan Bus Terminal. Or there must be taxis, minibuses and chartered buses outside Baoshan Bus Station, you can go and ask the drivers for details. These vehicles are more convenient and flexible than long-distance bus, drivers will take you there at Longjiang Bridge directly.

Baoshan Bus Station-Tengchong Bus Terminal
Departing Time: 8:20, 9:30, 10:20, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:00, 15:00, 15:40, 17:00, 18:20, 19:00
Price: 66 CNY
Distance: 168 Kilometers
Duration: About 2 hours

2. Kunming-Tengchong-Longjiang Bridge

Tengchong Tuofeng Airport(腾冲驼峰机场) serves Tengchong City, which is located near Tuofeng Village 12 kilometers south of the county seat. It takes about 15 minutes by car to arrive in Tengchong City downtown. There are flights flying to and from Kunming, Chongqing, Nanjing, Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Changsha, Zhuhai, Xian, Chengdu, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Guiyang, etc. There are at least 14 daily flights departing from Kunming Changshui International Airport to Tengchong Tuofeng Airport, and it takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

There are 5 daily long-distance departing from Kunming West Bus Station to Tengchong Bus Terminal.
Departing Time: 9:00, 9:50, 11:00, 19:00, 21:00
Price: 220-289 CNY
Distance: 620 Kilometers
Duration: About 9 hours

There must be taxis, minibuses and chartered buses outside Tengchong Bus Terminal and Tengchong Tuofeng Airport, you can go and ask the drivers for details. These vehicles are more convenient and flexible than long-distance bus, drivers will take you there at Longjiang Bridge directly. Accordingly, you might spend more money.

Accommodation Around Longjiang Bridge

Longjiang Bridge is not far from Tengchong City and Baoshan City, so you can stay in these two counties for overnight. You can also take a trip to Tengchong by the way.

Address: No.1, Hongxing Residential Quarter, Tengyue Road, Tengchong City, Baoshan保山市腾冲市腾越路红星小区1号

Address: The Crossing of Tongren Street and Shangxiang Street, Longyang District, Baoshan保山市隆阳区同仁街与上巷街交汇

Address: No.258, Hepan Residential Quarter, Guanyintang Community, Tengchong City, Baoshan保山市腾冲市观音塘社区河畔小区258号

Useful Travel Tips

2. There is a service area on the bridge to make it easier to enjoy the splendor of the whole bridge.

4. Longjiang Bridge is very high and spectacular, take care of your safety when standing on the bridge, especially if you are afraid of height.

Tours including Tengchong City and Baoshan City

If you are planning a tour to Baoshan, you can contact us by Email: contact@YunnanExploration.com, or Phone: 0086-871-63511469, Wechat: 908400838, Emergency Call:+86-13668720322.

Chinese Name:建水县双龙桥
English Name: Double Dragons Bridge in Jianshui County, Honghe
Honghe Double Dragons Bridge in Jianshui County travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Double Dragons Bridge in Honghe(建水县双龙桥).

Dali Caifeng Bridge in Yunlong County travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Caifeng Bridge in Dali(云龙县彩凤桥).

Chinese Name: Caifeng Bridge in Yunlong County, Dali
English Name: 云龙县彩凤桥
Location: Shundang Village, Baishi Town, Yunlong County, Dali, Yunnan (云龙县白石乡顺荡村)

Caifeng Bridge in Yunlong County, Dali-03

Dali Tongjing Bridge in Yunlong County travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Tongjing Bridge in Dali(云龙县通京桥).

Chinese Name: 云龙县通京桥
English Name: Tongjing Bridge in Yunlong County, Dali

通京桥位于云南省大理州云龙县才长新乡大包罗村，怒江支流沘江上游。

通京桥始建于１７７６年，桥全长４０米，孔净跨２９米，采用木枋交错架叠，从两岸桥头层层向河心挑出，在相距９米处用５根粗壮的横梁衔接，上铺木板，并有抬梁式木结构桥屋，为我省民族地区特有的桥梁形式。

网上说，该桥处去盐马古道，清代白羊场银矿运银子必经此桥，因此曾用名“通金桥”，后来说银子是运到北京的，因此又名“通京桥”。

而我听说的和网上看到的很多说是叫“大菠萝桥”，看桥上的介绍，又说叫“大波浪桥”，桥啊桥，你到底是个什么桥？

该桥位于大包罗村，所以说叫“大包罗桥”应该也没错。何况“菠萝”“波浪”“包罗”在当地人口音里差距很大吗？

连桥护栏上都是宣传的阵地。
一个从地里回来的大妈走上桥来

Dali Songshui Rattan Bridge in Yunlong County travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Songshui Rattan Bridge in Dali(云龙松水藤桥).

Chinese Name:云龙松水藤桥
English Name: Songshui Rattan Bridge in Yunlong County, Dali
ADD:云南省大理州云龙县的白石乡松水村

Dali Yongji Bridge in Weishan County travel guide introduces the main attractions, entrance tickets booking, The best time to visit, How to Get there, the highlights, facts, history, photos, weather, accommodation, visiting routes, travel tips, tour maps of Yongji Bridge in Dali(巍山县永建镇永济桥).

Chinese Name: 巍山县永建镇永济桥
English Name: Yongji Bridge in Weishan County, Dali

Do You Dare to Challenge Glass Skywalk?

Speaking of glass skywalk, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it like this?

Or does it make you feel in that way?

For acrophobes, the glass skywalk is a nightmare! Just standing up will induce shiver, let alone walking on it. But the glass skywalk is also magical, whether bold or fear of heights, people want to try. Actually, there are many terrifying glass skywalks, do you dare to challenge?

Kunming Yeya Lake

The glass skywalk located in Kunming Yeya Lake is the first one that built above water in Yunnan Province with 145 meters long, 2 meters wide and 15 meters high from the lake surface. The see-through glass skywalk over the water is like a winding dragon hovering over the lake, offering the pretty scenery.

The elegant Yeya Lake scenic area also has unique natural scenery which consists of a group of leisurely wild ducks, a quiet land and a green lake. Here, you can enjoy the scenery and picking game. You can also participant in fun contests, small-scale hunting, horse racing and ziptreck.

Kunming Xiyoudong Park Scenic Spot

Located at the Kunming Xiyoudong Park, the glass skywalk is 250 meters long, whose bridge floor adopted 5D technology, and every step is accompanied by images of broken glass and sound effects, doubling the excitement.

Here, each step is like walking on clouds of the sky, with God’s perspective overlooking the Xiyoudong Park scenery. It is very terrifying to think about standing on the glass bridge, which is like being suspended above the abyss.

Xiyoudong Park scenic spot is a karst geological cave close to the city of Kunming, which consists of Xiyoudong (karst cave), Shuilian Cave and Guanyin Cave. In addition to these natural landscapes, the scenic spot also has a variety of attractions, such as alpine jungle glass slide rafting, glass skywalk, water park and so on.

Yunnan Wild Animal Park

Although not located at high altitude, the glass tunnel of Yunnan Wild Animal Park is designed among the wild lives. Isn’t it exciting enough to find the tiger is standing behind you? The whole glass tunnel is made of blast proof glass specially designed for tigers, which can withstand the impact force of 4000 kg. It is very safe in the tunnel, and there is no need to worry about the safety of the glass.

(Photo source: Yunnan Safari Park)

In this glass tunnel, you can observe the tiger in a close range. Just look at the commanding tiger, perhaps it is watching you too!

(Photo source: Yunnan Safari Park)

Dashanbao of Zhaotong

The wingsuit flying glass platform in Dashanbao scenic area of Zhaotong is designed at a location over 3,200 meters high. Due to the wingsuit flying platform, part of the glass platform is not installed with guardrails, tourists need to pay attention! If you want to have a beautiful view of the sea of clouds of Dashanbao, you can stand on the glass skywalk in the viewing area. The skywalk has three layers of tempered glass, and the maximum load capacity of each side is 600-700kg, providing high safety guarantee.

Dashanbao is located in the west of Zhaotong city, which is the subalpine wetland ecosystem with the highest overwintering elevation of black-necked crane in China at present. There are many swamps and wetlands in the territory, which are known as “the kidney of the earth”. It has become an ideal wintering habitat for endangered black-necked cranes of the world.

Shimenguan of Yangbi County, Dali

The glass skywalk of Shimenguan of Cangshan Mountain in Yangbi county, Dali City is the first high-altitude glass walkway in Yunnan province, with a total length of 1,550 meters and the highest vertical height from the ground being 170 meters. On one side of the skywalk, there is a glass viewing platform extending 7 meters out from the skywalk, which allows visitors to overlook the steep falls and deep pools.

Located on the western slope of the Cangshan Mountain in Dali, Shimenguan has two cliffs of hundreds of meters high, shaped like two huge stone gates, with a clear waterfall rushing out, surrounded by jagged rocks, deep ravines and swift streams in the valley. Shimenguan is a strategic pass as if placed by an act of God.

Lijiang Sangushui Scenic Area

The glass skywalk of Lijiang Sangushui Scenic Area is only 116 meters long and 50 meters high, but it is totally suspended. This glass skywalk is an original iron rope bridge in the scenic area. In order to facilitate sightseeing and provide the exciting tourism experience, the scenic area has laid a glass skywalk on the chain bridge, offering a view of majestic canyon from the glass skywalk.

Glass Skywalk of Guanyin Gorge in Lijiang

The glass skywal[FS:Page]k of Guanyin Gorge in Lijiang suspended over Huanglong Lake is 2,300 meters long and 1.5 meters wide, whose highest vertical height from the ground being 230 meters, and is attached to steep vertical walls.

Guanyin Gorge is called the key of Lijiang, which owns mountains, rivers, canyons, waterfalls and forests! It was the entrance to the prosperous Ancient Tea-Horse Road which remain nothing but ease now.

Yingjiang Viewing Platform

The glass skywalk of Yingjiang is a concrete frame structure with a length of 65 meters and a width of 3.6 meters and a height of 86 meters above the ground, the fully suspended fan-shaped viewing platform of which is 10 meters wide and 20 meters long, making it the only fully suspended glass skywalk with the largest area in Yunnan province.

The glass skywalk in Yingjiang carries a total weight of about 50 tons and can accommodate about 600 people at the same time. But for safety reasons, the number of tourists on the platform is limited to 200.

The Echo Wall of Balagezong

The Huiyinbi scenic spot in the Shangri-La Balagezong scenic area in Diqing officially opened the skywalk. The skywalk is 1,106 meters long and has a vertical drop of 700 meters which reserves four viewing platforms. Walking along the winding walkway, you can see the overall perspective of Shangri-La grand canyon, and Balagezong while walking along the winding skywalk.

In Tibetan, the huiyinbi is called “Shi Sha An Dong”, unlike other mountain forests, the hills have sparse vegetation and stand bolt upright. Shouting at this unique cliff wall, the sound waves will be reflected back, and be repeated in layers echoing in ears. There are many people who are good at singing and dancing in Bala Village like to sing here, the melodious ancient songs gain long lasting appeal due to the natural harmony, overlapping tone furnished by the echo wall.

Qinglong Gorge of Anning

Located in Qinglong Gorge scenic spot of Anning, Kunming the skywalk here is another 5D glass bridge in Yunnan province with a total height of 108 meters and length of 188 meters. Four pieces of glass on the bridge can show more than 20 kinds of glass cracks special effects when you stand on it, which will bring your heart into your mouth. In fact, it is just a scare.

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