[Wuzhong Travel Notes] Check in at the Yellow River Grand Canyon in Qingtongxia

Address: Qingtongxia Yellow River Grand Canyon Tourist Area, Qingtongxia City, Wuzhong City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Transportation: Self-driving Travel tips: This is a 5A-level national tourist attraction, rated as one of the "50 Scenic Spots of the Yellow River in China", with a total area of 126 square kilometers. The large water area and the scenery on both sides of the dam need to be visited by boat. If you are short on time, you can also choose to take a sightseeing bus and then walk across the dam from the bridge to the boat point, check in and take photos, and then return the same way. The boat point upstream of the dam is lush with vegetation and beautiful scenery, making it very suitable for taking photos and checking in. Qingtongxia is the last canyon on the upper reaches of the Yellow River, known as the "Little Three Gorges of the Yellow River". The main attractions for walking tours are the Qingtongxia Blue River Dam and the Ningxia Water Conservancy Museum. The exhibits in the museum include sample rafts used by ancient people to cross the Yellow River, old objects such as water pumps from the Antelope River Pumping Station, and statues of Guo Shoujing and Meng Tian. Meng Tian was not only a general of the Qin State, but also the earliest developer of Northwest China and the first person to develop Ningxia. The flight radius of the drone can also cover the 108 Pagodas and Dayu Cultural Park upstream. On the way back, you can take an aerial view of the dam downstream. There is Dujiangyan in the south and Qingtongxia in the north. The Qingtongxia Water Conservancy Project is one of the earliest projects established on the upper reaches of the Yellow River in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. It was started in 1958, and its completion ended the history of Ningxia's more than 2,000 years of water diversion without a dam. The 108 Pagodas in Qingtongxia were built during the Western Xia period and are a national key cultural relic protection unit and the largest existing Lama pagoda group in China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is built along the mountains and rivers, in steps, and arranged in odd numbers of one, three, three, five, five, seven, nine, etc., forming a large pagoda group in the shape of an equilateral triangle. This is a must-see attraction for self-driving around Yinchuan, and you can combine it with a one-day trip to Beichangtan in Zhongwei.