Wulong Karst, Chongqing Wulong National Park

Wulong Karst

Located at the southeast of Chongqing, 139km from the city center, Wulong County is featured in south China karst landscape. The county reach 82.7km from east to west, and 75km from south to north, covering an area of 2901.5 km2. Wulong is known by most domestic tourists for Curse of the Golden Flower, a well-known movie directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou. After that, in 2014, the Transformers: Age of Extinction had been drawn to this little county for its marvelous natural scenery, and more and more people are attracted by Wulong's gorgeous karst scenery.

Wulong's attractions are mainly natural scenery, and many of them had been listed at World Natural Heritages. There are four hottest attractions: Three Natural Bridges of world wonder, magical Furong Cave, Fairy Mountain with vast grassland and the magnificent Longshuixia Gap. Wulong is just the kind of place where you'll be amazed by the uncanny workmanship of nature.

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Three Natural Bridges

Located at the southeast of Wulong County, 20km from it, Three Natural Bridges are the largest natural bridge groups in Asia. Featured in classic karst landform, the magnificent scenery is full of life, trees grow directly from stone and spring water flows even at the top of the bridges, spilling by drops and shining like pearls. Three Natural Bridges is composed of Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge and Heilong Bridge, which are all natural bridges lying from north to south, crossing over the Yangshuihe Gorge and connecting the mountains at the two sides. There are natural formed pits under the bridges, so the Three Natural Bridges are also called Tiankeng Three Bridges.

Tianlong Bridge is the first bridge which is 235m high, with thickness of 150m. It's also called No.1 Tiankeng Bridge. The most unique part of Tianlong Bridge is its bridge pier, which has maze-like caves. The main cave is 400m long and there are all kinds of large and small passages to various peculiar caves.

Qinglong Bridge is the second bridge and it's also called No.2 Tiankeng Bridge. Qinglong Bridge is the most precipitous one among the three. It's 281m high, with a bridge thickness of 168m. When the sun shines again after rain, you can see the colorful light through the bridge opening.

Heilong Bridge is the last bridge, thus it's also called No.3 Tiankeng Bridge. Heilong Bridge is wider than other two bridges, with a width of 193m, and it's 223 in height and 107m in thickness. The bridge opening is long and high, and light seems luxury in here. Before it's open to public, the local villagers will stop passing through here after 4pm for it's very dark since then. Besides that, Heilong Bridge is considered as the most beautiful one among the three. It's hard to believe that on the top of the bridge, there are huge tracts of farmland, and the four delicate springs in Heilong Bridge are formed due to these farmland.

Ticket

March 1st to October 31st: ¥125/person (including ¥40 for travel bus, running among Xiannv Town Tourist Center, Longshuixia Gap entrance and Three Natural Bridges entrance).

November 1st ~ February 28th: ¥95/person (including ¥40 for travel bus).

Opening Hours

09:00 ~ 16:00

Distance from Other Wulong Attractions

0.7km from Longshuixia Gap
6.9km from Fairy Mountain
3.1km from Wulong Tourist Center

Tianlong Bridge

Qinglong Bridge

Shooting under the Three Natural Bridges

How to Get to Three Natural Bridges

From Chongqing, tourists can take train from Chongqing North Railway station to Wulong County (about 2 hours), then trans taking minibus from Wulong Bus Station to the Tourists Center on Xiannv Town (about 30 ~ 50 minutes). After purchasing the entrance ticket, take the travel bus to Three Natural Bridges (and bus fee is included in the ticket). Tourists can also take bus to Wulong first (about 2.5 ~ 3 hours), then transfer to Xiannv Town and finally to Three Natural Bridges. If you are going to take private car, you can take highway from Chongqing to Three Natural Bridges, and the drive is about 4 hours.

How to Get around Three Natural Bridges

After arriving at the entrance of Three Natural Bridges, walk for a little while and you'll see a 88m-high sightseeing elevator. There are only two buttons on the elevator: "1" is the place to get on the elevator, take "2" you can get to the three bridges.
After you get out of the scenic area, you are still about 1km upslope road to get to the parking lot, for those who tired, you can take sightseeing car, and it will charge ¥15/person. In the parking lot, there is travel bus to Longshuixia Gap, or you can just go back to the Tourists Center.

Warm Tip: There are two entrances of Three Natural Bridges. Through No.1 entrance, you can take the sightseeing elevator. If you take the No.2 entrance, you will need to walk a long distance in visiting, and you will also miss a lot of sceneries on the road, for you will arrive at the bottom of the three bridges directly and miss the panoramic view of the bridges.

Longshuixia Gap

Longshuixia Gap is located in Xiannv Town and is 15km from the township. The gap was formed due to the orogeny tens of millions years ago. Longshuixia is actually a gap-style gorge and it's the important part of Wulong karst landform. The whole gorge is 5km long and the tour part is about 2km. The gorge is magnificent and the depth of it is from 200m to 500m. Nature has spent thousands of years forming these wonderful landscapes. Primitive forests, waterfalls, springs and gorges, here you can actually feel the Earth is older than a city and more powerful than a rocket.