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Baiheliang Underwater Museum 白鹤梁水下博物馆Báihèliáng Shuǐxià Bówùguǎn
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Chongqing, Chongqing
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Chongqing
- Region
- Chongqing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Baiheliang Underwater Museum
A museum built around White Crane Ridge, a rock ledge in the Yangtze off Fuling that showed above water only in the dry season and bears some 170 inscriptions and carved fish recording the river's low levels in 72 years since 764. When the Three Gorges reservoir submerged the ridge, it was enclosed in a shell of filtered water about 40 m down; visitors ride a 91 m escalator to a gallery and look at the carvings through 23 portholes. The museum opened in 2009, with exhibition halls on the riverbank explaining the inscriptions.
How to get to Baiheliang Underwater Museum
On Binjiang Avenue by the Yangtze in central Fuling, Fuling District, about 1.5 hours by road from central Chongqing.
Nearby
- Wulong Karst 武隆喀斯特 50 km
Three colossal natural bridges, a sinkhole canyon and a cave in the hills of Wulong
On the map
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