Guide to Changsha Attractions

Changsha Attractions

Changsha Zoological Garden

It was Changsha Zoo, and removed here from north of Martyr's Park.

No.125 bus pass here.

Orange Island was developed as a tourist attraction in 1992. It is in the middle of the Xiangjiang River, and runs almost the entire length of the city..In December, 2009 they built a very large 32 meter high bust statue of a young looking 32 year old Mao Zedong on the island. Walk across the No. 1 Bridge over the Xiangjiang River, just opposite the Yuelu scenic area. You can spend a few hours walking around the island or take a shuttle bus.

Yuelu Mountain

Mt. Yuelu, which means the foot of Mt. Hengshan (Southern Mountain), is located on the west bank of Xiangjiang River and lies in the west of Changsha City. It's a highly reputable scenic area in Hunan Province, an area that enables you to have a much clearer understanding of Changsha City once you have paid a visit to Mt. Yuelu. Mt. Yuelu is noted for its picturesque scenery. The towering trees that provide dense shade emerge through heavily planted foliage around the mountains and provide an instant sense of refreshment and vitality to the environment. The full-blown azaleas in spring, the tranquility and coolness in summer, the flamboyant maple leaves in autumn and the silver-colored trees covered with snow and frost in winter make it a delightful spot all year round. Besides the natural scenery, Yuelu Mountain abounds with cultural landscape as well. Many literati, ideologists, and hierarchy once visited here and left their tracks. The coexistence of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism is the most unique culture in this mountain. The representative buildings are the Yuelu Academy, the Lushan Temple, the Sarira Tower, the Yunlu Palace, and the Aiwan Pavilion. Additionally, Mt. Yuelu is an excellent education base for patriotism. So many revolutionists, patriots and great people with high ideals like Huang Xing, Cai E and Jiang Yiwu, who were dedicated to the democratic revolution of the old type, were buried here. And the monuments, graves and cemeteries built for those martyrs make a solemn and stirring scene on the mountain.

Yuelu Academy

An old style academy that still serves as a top rated university and a museum. It is not very large but it has beautiful and well maintained old style buildings, art, statues, literature, and even some very old course score cards and tests. I am sorry about the posted picture, for some reason most o...

Changsha Window of the World

The Window of the World is a theme park located in Changsha, Hunan, China. It has about 50 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 40 hectares.

Changsha taiping folklore street - the local artistic food street

Jinggang Ancient Town

It's an off the beaten track tour for the people living out side of Changsha. But it is becoming a more and more popular resort for locals recently.

It takes more than 2 hours to arrive there from central business district of Changsha by public buses. It's a 4A rank of National to...

It's an off the beaten track tour for the people living out side of Changsha. But it is becoming a more and more popular resort for locals recently.

It takes more than 2 hours to arrive there from central business district of Changsha by public buses. It's a 4A rank of National tourist attractions. Normally, tourists go there for relax. It was a busy and prosperous seaport. The name of the town was adopted from a respectable general Jing.

Fiery Palace

It's one of the most popular restaurants in Changsha. It provides many style of Chinese food and snacks. Their Stinky Tofu and Sisters of Rice Balls gained a great reputation. one of the picture displayed is Stinky Tofu that is their special cuisine.

Changsha Undersea World

Tianxin Pavilion

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Cities With Daily Nonstop Flights to Changsha (Updated In Feb 2017)

See which Chinese cities offer direct flights to Changsha everyday, so you can better plan your departure airport for your Changsha trip.

Beijing 9 flights

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See which Chinese cities offer direct flights to Changsha everyday, so you can better plan your departure airport for your Changsha trip.

Beijing 9 flights

Shanghai 12 flights

Chengdu, Sichuan 6 flights

Xi'an, Shanxi 6 flights

Guangzhou, Guangdong 5 flights

Shenzhen, Guangdong 2 flights

Hangzhou, Zhejiang 3 flights

Zhangjiajie, Hunan 3 flights

Xiamen, Fujian 2 flights

Kunming, Yunnan 6 flights

Ningbo, Zhejiang 5 flights

Haikou, Hainan 8

Lanzhou, Gansu 2

Fuzhou, Fujian 5

Dalian, Liaoning 3

Sanya, Hainan 6

Taiyuan, Shanxi 5

Harbin, Heilongjiang 7

Tianjin 3

Dali, Yunnan 1

Shenyang, Liaoning 4

Jinan, Shandong 4

Nanjing, Jiangsu 9

Hohhot, Inner Mongolia 1

Tongren, Hunan 2

Urumqi, Xinjiang 6

Zhuhai, Guangdong 2

Wenzhou, Zhejiang 3

Chongqing 6

Nanning, Guangxi 3

Qingdao, Shandong 6

Changchun, Jilin 2

Xishuangbanna/Sipsongpanna, Yunnan 1

Lijiang, Yunnan 1

Guiyang, Guizhou 1

Beihai, Guangxi 1

Lhasa, Tibet 1

Quanzhou, Fujian 2

Jieyang, Guangdong 2

Yuncheng, Shanxi 1

Wuxi, Jiangsu 1

Mianyang, Sichuan 1

YinChuan, Ningxia 1

XiNing, Qinghai 2

Qiandongnan, Guizhou 1

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Bangkok, Thailand 1 flight

Phuket, Thailand 1 flight

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 1 flight

Admission Fees to Main Attractions in Hunan, China (Zhangjiajie, Fenghuang)

Tourist Attraction name Normal Price Discounted Price

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Tourist Attraction name Normal Price Discounted Price

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park 37 USD 24.3
Bailong Elevator 10.7 6.4
Cable Car on Tianzi Mountian 10.7 6.4
Cable Car on Yangjiajie 11.3 6.9
Cable Car on Yellow Stone Village 17.6 (round-trip) 10.4
Trolley at Ten-miles Gallery 7.8 (round-trip) 4.5
Tianmen Mountain 39 23.6/16.9
Escalator (through 999-steps Stairway) 4.8 3
Chairlift on the top of Tianmen Mountai 3.7 (one-way) 2.8
Yellow Dragon Cave 15.4
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon 17.6
The glass bridge 21
Lift at the Glass bridge 5.2
Slide at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon 3.3
Baofeng Lake 14.3
Tu Folk Custom Garden 18
Tu Folk Old Courtyard 18
Tianmen Fox Fairy (performance) 35.5 (normal seat)
Charming Western Hunan (performance) 34 (normal seat)
Phoenix Ancient Town 0 (free of charge)

Price Unit: US Dollar / Person

Tourist Attraction name Normal Price Discounted Price

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park 248 CNY 163
Bailong Elevator 72 43
Cable Car on Tianzi Mountian 72 43
Cable Car on Yangjiajie 76 46
Cable Car on Yellow Stone Village 118 (round-trip) 70
Trolley at Ten-miles Gallery 52 (round-trip) 30
Tianmen Mountain 261 158/113
Escalator (through 999-steps Stairway) 32 20
Chairlift on the top of Tianmen Mountai 25 (one-way) 19
Yellow Dragon Cave 103 63
Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon 118 76
The glass bridge 141
Lift at the Glass bridge 35
Slide at Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon 22
Baofeng Lake 96 60
Tu Folk Custom Garden 90
Old Courtyard 120 60
Tianmen Fox Fairy (performance) 238 (normal seat)
Charming Western Hunan (performance) 228 (normal seat)
Phoenix Ancient Town 0 (free of charge)

Price Unit: Chinese Yuan Renminbi / Person

General speaking, discounted price is for students who are younger than 24 years old and elders who are 60-69 years old. For elders who are 70 years old or above and children that under 1.2 meters height could get tickets for free.

Fenghuang County in China

Fenghuang County (凤凰县; literally: “phoenix county”) is under the administration of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China, bordering the prefecture-level cities of Huaihua to the southeast and Tongren (Guizhou) to the west. It has an exceptionally well-preserved ancient town that harbors unique ethnic languages, customs, arts as well as many distinctive architectural remains of Ming and Qing styles. The town is placed in a mountain setting, incorporating the natural flow of water into city layout. Over half of the city’s population belong to the Miao or Tujia minorities. It was the center of the unsuccessful Miao Rebellion (1854–73), which created a Miao diaspora in Southeast Asia during the last two centuries. The city is revered in Miao traditions and funeral rites and is the location of the Southern China Great Wall (中国南方长城; 中國南方長城; ), a fortification built by the Ming dynasty to protect the local Han Chinese from Miao attacks.

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airport layover tour in Changsha

Taiping street is the most well-preserved folklore street which represented the local culture of food, art and people, here you will explore the most local life of changsha citizens...

The old street is the root of a city which carries forward the city's culture and history. Taiping Street fabulously displays Changsha's thousand-year-old tradition. Today's Taiping Street is fast becoming the new landmark and a new name card of Changsha, which fully demonstrates the glamour of Huxiang Culture and embodies Changsha's ancient flavor.

$100 Per Day

Yuelu mountain, Yuelu academy, and Xinmin history meeting site one day trip

Yuelu Mountain is located in the western suburbs of Changsha and is one of seventy-two mountains in the Heng Mountain area. The Monument to King Yu on the east side of Yunlu Peak was carved in the Song Dynasty and is now a symbol of ancient culture on Yuelu Mountain. Yuelu Mountain is home to 977 plant species, including several thousand-year-old yew podocarpus, ginkgo and lisong trees. The renowned Yuelu Academy is also located at the foot of the mountain. When autumn comes, the maples turn red and tangerine trees bear fruit, making the mountain very picturesque.
The Academy was founded in 976, the 9th year of the Song Dynasty under the reign of Emperor Kaibao, and was one of four most renowned shuyuan (academies of higher learning). The renowned Confucian scholars Zhu Xiand Zhang Shi lectured at the academy.
During the Qing dynasty, the Academy inculcated an ascetic philosophy of self-examination and dedication to rescuing the world from the decadence of recent times. The Academy remained loyal to the Neo-Confucianschool of the Song dynasty which emphasized moral self-cultivation, community solidarity, and social hierarchy. Among the prominent alumni were the early Qing scholar, Wang Fuzhi. But by the early 19th century, Academy scholars saw no contradiction in devoting serious study also to practical subjects such as martial engineering, political economy, waterworks, and management of bureaucracy. They called these studies jingshi (statecraft), made up of the character jing (manage) and shi (things, or "the world"). Early 19th century graduates formed what one historian called a "network of messianic alumni." These included Tao Zhu, who reformed the grain transportation system and salt monopoly; Wei Yuan, compiler of works on western geography, the exploits of the Qing expansionist campaigns, and the basic collection of statecraft essays; Bao Shichen; and most prominent, Zeng Guofan, architect of the Tongzhi Restoration. [1] Later 19th century alumni include Zuo Zongtang, a reformer official; Hu Linyi; Guo Songtao, China’s first ambassador to a foreign country; Cai E, a major leader in defending the Republic of China.

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Changsha One Day City Tour

Morning:

I'll meet you at the lobby of your hotel at 9:00am (the time could be changed at your request).

Then we will head to Mount Yuelu, the most popular attraction in Changsha. You will have choices to take a cable car, a tourist car or just hike to the top of the mountain. Strolling on the mountaintop and breathing the natural healthy air leisurely.

Morning:

I'll meet you at the lobby of your hotel at 9:00am (the time could be changed at your request).

The second attraction we will visit is Yuelu Academy. It located at the foot of Mount Yuelu. It was built 1,000 years ago. It was one of best schools in China. We will find out how meaningful and great this Academy was after we are soaked into the academic atmosphere there. You could enjoy chime live music at the academy (the musicians play Chinese ancient music instruments).

Afternoon:

After lunch at a local Chinese restaurant, we will check out Orange Island Park. There is a huge Maozhedong's head stone statue on the isle.

At the end of this day tour. We will explore Tianxin Pavilion. You will see the original relic wall of ancient Changsha city, it was built in 202 BC. You will read and learn the historic stories of Three Kingdoms Period from mural paintings on the wall of the pavilions there.

(Options: recommended things to do for night time:

Window shopping at Peaceful Street. Having special local snacks at Pozi Street or having delicious dinner at Fiery Palace Restaurant. Taking a massage service for relaxation. Enjoying the night life in the night club in Changsha.)

Tour Cost: 550 CNY for One Person; 780 CNY for Two Person totally.

Including: English guide tour service, public transportation fees (buses and cabs fees only), picking up and dropping off service, first entrance tickets for all the attractions mentioned above.

Excluding:
Traffic fees spend at attractions (cable car and tourist car fees), foods and admission fees for the unmentioned attractions above.

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