Ankang - Tourism Resources

Tourism Resources

Located at a rare zone abundant in subtropical resources in the northwest of China, Ankang is an intermediate zone between north and south China and a transition zone of different climates whose unique geographical features make it to own beautiful natural scenery and rich tourism resources, which gives a high value and a good prospect to develop it, such as developing the tourism of Qinba and Han River scenery and the tourism for holidays and leisure. It is a vivid description of Ankang's scenery that "Ankang contains the beautiful scenery in the south of China, as well as the magnificent view of Qinling and Ta-pa Mountains." Now Ankang has exploited 32 scenic areas and 78 scenic spots, among which 29 places have higher value to exploit, including some historic and scenic sites at the provincial level such as Nangong Mountain National Forest Park, Ying Lake and Xiangxi Hole, and lots of historic and scenic sites or tourism projects such as Qianjia Ping, the origin of Shen River, Pinghe Liang, rafting on the Lan River and so on. Ankang also has four national forest parks and seven forest parks at the provincial level.