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Keyan Scenic Area 柯岩Kē Yán
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Shaoxing, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoxing
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Keyan Scenic Area
A scenic area of about 6.9 km² west of Shaoxing made up of three parts: the rocks of Ke hill, a stretch of Jian Lake and Luzhen, a water-town quarter. Its centrepiece is the Tiangong Great Buddha, a seated Maitreya 11.3 m high carved in the Song dynasty inside a great curved rock face, with Puzhao Temple behind it and inscriptions from the Ming and Qing dynasties on the Yungu rock, Qixing Rock and other cliffs.
How to get to Keyan Scenic Area
In Keyan subdistrict, about 11 km west of Shaoxing's old city by road.
Nearby
- West Lake 西湖 40 km
The lake that taught China what a perfect landscape should look like - Lingyin Temple & Feilai Feng 灵隐寺 40 km
A working Chan monastery beside a hillside of 1,000-year-old rock carvings
Also within 20 km: Qiaobo Ice and Snow World 乔波冰雪世界 (under 10 km), Ancient Towpath, Keqiao 古纤道 (under 10 km), Oriental Neverland (Kuwan Town) 东方山水乐园 (under 10 km), Daxianglin and Doushuaitian 大香林·兜率天 (under 10 km), Angsang Lake Causeway 昂桑湖避塘 (under 10 km), Datong School and Xu Xilin's Former Residence 大通学堂 (under 10 km).
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