Sanqing Mountain | Enjoy the best scenery of the Five Great Mountains at Sanqing Mountain
| Enjoy the best scenery of the Five Great Mountains at Sanqing Mountain. Sanqing Mountain is located in Shangrao, Jiangxi. It is a world natural heritage site and a national 5A scenic spot, famous for its granite peak forest landscape. More than a thousand stone peaks rise from the ground, and strange stones such as the Giant Python Emerging from the Mountain and the Oriental Goddess are lifelike. Clouds and seas surge all year round, and 200 days of fog form a unique microclimate, preserving 2,373 kinds of plants and rare animals. As a famous Taoist mountain, the three peaks of Yujing, Yuxu, and Yuhua symbolize the Sanqing gods, and the ancient buildings are perfectly integrated with nature. There are sceneries in all seasons: azaleas in spring, escape the summer heat in summer, red leaves in autumn, and rime in winter. It is known as "the most beautiful granite on the edge of the West Pacific".
The Sanqing Mountain travel guide is as follows:
1. "Xingrong Travel" customized line
Departure time: 6:00–16:00, every half hour. Buy tickets on the WeChat official account "Xingrong Travel", which has station and train information.
(1) To Wai Shuangxi Parking Lot (southern Sanqing Mountain): CNY 40, about 90 mins (not to the lower station of Wai Shuangxi cableway, the route passes near Dong'ao Village and Wai Shuangxi Police Station, you can tell the driver which accommodation in Wai Shuangxi to get off at)
(2) Get off at the lower station of Jinsha cableway (eastern Sanqing Mountain): CNY 45, about 120 mins
Get on the bus at the drop-off area of Shangrao High-speed Railway Station, which is on the station square on the first floor of the train station. Follow the signs to the customized express bus boarding point.
2. Find a taxi or private carpool at the exit of the high-speed railway station, about CNY 50 per person
🏠Accommodation
It is recommended to stay in a B&B near Dong'ao Village, which is not far from the cableway entrance and the price is cheap. You can stay at Sanmao Inn B&B opposite the police station, with an average price of more than CNY 100. The owner provides free pick-up and drop-off to take the Wai Shuangxi cableway the next morning.
🚠Cableway operation time
Monday to Friday 7:30
Saturday to Sunday 7:00
Last cable car: 17:00
💰Adult ticket + cableway: 245 CNY
🍞Bring your own things
You can bring a few more bottles of water (you don’t have to bring instant noodles, it costs CNY 10 to boil water on the mountain), wooden hiking poles are CNY 5 each (there are shops that can recycle them after going down the mountain in exchange for 1 bottle of water or CNY 1)
🧗Climbing route:
Small loop: 1–2 hrs, you can only take the Jinsha cableway up and down, and you can only see the Oriental Goddess and the Giant Python Emerging from the Mountain. Most of the Jinsha cableway is for tour groups, so you have to queue for a long time. It is not cost-effective and is suitable for easy travel with the elderly and children, so it is not recommended.
Medium loop: 3–5 hrs, including the small loop, plus a circle around the Nanging Garden scenic area, you can see most of the Sanqing Mountain landscape, which is the route chosen by most Travelers.
Large loop: 5–7 hrs, the difference from the middle loop is the West Coast and the Sunshine Coast, which are all flat roads (people with fear of heights should be cautious, they are all high-altitude plank roads, but the scenery is the best, and you have the opportunity to see the sea of clouds, which is recommended)
★During holidays and weekends, you need to queue for the Jinsha cableway. At 7:00 or 8:00 in the morning, you will have to queue to get a number of one or two thousand.
★If you go to climb Sanqing Mountain from the city on the same day, you must choose to go up from Wai Shuangxi, because the queuing time for the Jinsha cableway is too long.
⚠️The most time-saving route: Wai Shuangxi → Immortal Pointing the Way → Rissho Villa → West Coast → Sunshine Coast → Yuhuang Peak → Giant Python Emerging from the Mountain → Oriental Goddess → Upper Station of Jinsha Cableway (it only takes about 3 or 4 hours to complete)
⚠️Large loop route: Wai Shuangxi → Immortal Pointing the Way → Rissho Villa → West Coast → Sunshine Coast → Yuhuang Peak → Giant Python Emerging from the Mountain → Oriental Goddess → Azalea Valley → Yutai → Jade Maiden in Meditation → A Thread of Sky → Longevity Garden → Immortal Pointing the Way → Wai Shuangxi Cableway
❗️You must go from Yutai to Rissho Villa when passing A Thread of Sky, otherwise you will doubt your life after climbing it❗️
★Longevity Garden is next to the Wai Shuangxi cableway; the scenery of the South Coast plank road is average, so it is not recommended to go there. If time is tight, you can quickly reach the Jinsha cableway from the Wai Shuangxi cableway and Longevity Garden (without going up and down hills)
★Finally, it is recommended to go clockwise on all loops. First, it is relatively easy, and second, there is less resistance in the same direction as most people, and there are fewer narrow roads, so you don’t have to queue.