高庙、沙坡头、须弥、崆峒山景区简介(英文)

The Gao Temple

(Gao miao) is located in Zhongwei city, 170km southwest of Yinchuan. The temple was originally built in the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD), was flattened by an earthquake in 1739 AD, was rebuilt and enlarged after this and then razed to the ground by fire in 1942. The present temple is covering an area of about four thousand square meters.

The present day temple is still mainly wooden in structure, and is beautifully interweaved, with tier upon tier, veranda under eave, presenting a most impressive aspect. The temple also has a gruesome face, however, in the caverns below the temple. These caverns, originally converted by the communists as a bomb shelter during the uncertainty of the Cultural Revolution Years (1966-76), have now be turned into a peculiar kind of Chinese religious hell, where devils are depicted torturing those souls who strayed from a righteous path.

Shapotou

Shapotou is located in zhongwei city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous region. It is famous for its sand ecological management and tourist attractions. Shapotou of Ningxia was selected one of the most beautiful places in china by the magazine of Chinese National Geography.

Here is famous for its unique natural sight, and enjoys honor on the world due to its sand-treatment achievement of Wheat Grass Square.Sand results shocked the world and called it "a miracle in the history of mankind sand", was awarded the United Nations "Global 500 environmental protection" unit.

Feature one: sand sliding, because of its unique geographical environment and geologic structure you can hear a very special sound like bell

Feature two: riding the camels

Feature three: riding the ancient sheepskin raft which is an ancient vehicle. It can be made by chopping down the head and hoofs then the whole sheepskin will be gotten off and tied and blown with mouth to expand ten more blown sheepskin will be connected together. It so light that only one person can carry, and it is very interesting to ride the sheepskin raft which can be push forward by rows.

It is integrated with desert, yellow river, mountains, oasis it is rich in human landscapes so it is praised to be international monopoly tourist resource. Someone japes if you don’t visit ShaPotu it shows you have never been to Ningxia.

Xumishan Grottoes

Xumishan Grottoes are located on the east of the Xumishan Mountain, 320 km away from the south of Yinchuan City, and 55 km to the south of the county town of Guyuan. There are more than 100 grottoes in the Mountain, all of which are collectively named as "Xumishan Grottoes". "Xumi" is the transliteration of Sanskrit (a kind of Buddha language), meaning "treasure mountain". In that area, there are peaks over peaks, craggy and weird rocks, and tall and straight pines, etc. All of those sceneries are quite breathtakingly fantastic. And the grottoes there are quite well-known throughout the world like the grottoes in