introduce

Cangyuan Cliff Painting Valley Scenic Tourist Area in Lincang, Yunnan Province is a comprehensive scenic tourist area based on cliff paintings, fully displaying Wa folk culture as the core, integrating ethnic culture, ethnic customs, natural landscape and cultural landscape, with a total length of 78 km, with a total planned area of ​​more than 600 hectares. The scenic spot is divided into the Tibetan Dragon Valley Scenic Area, the Thousand-meter Chinese Painting Promenade Scenic Area, the Cliff Painting Scenic Area, and the Mengdong Port Scenic Area. The thousand-meter traditional Chinese painting corridor is located in the middle of the scenic spot. The murals in this scenic spot are about 3 kilometers long. The cliffs are 80-180 meters high, and the highest reaches 280 meters. Neat, honeycomb-shaped dissolution pores are densely covered, some are as smooth as a knife and an axe, and some are like terraced fields. The cliff surface becomes colorful due to impurities and epiphytic climbing plants, just like a giant mural. It depicts the vicissitudes of the ancient land. Cangyuan Cliff Painting is a vivid historical scroll left to us by the Wa ancestors more than 3,000 years ago, and the thousand-meter traditional Chinese painting gallery is another natural scroll given to us by nature. It fully displays the original masterpieces of nature and the true emotions, forming a unique human landscape and natural landscape of Wa Mountain together with the cliff paintings. But as ordinary people living here, they do not believe that this beautiful and unique landscape is completely formed by nature, so the kilometer Chinese painting gallery is accompanied by a beautiful legend.

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8:00-18:00 all year round