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Jinlong Bridge 金龙桥Jīnlóng Qiáo
National heritage site · Lijiang, Yunnan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Lijiang
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Jinlong Bridge
Jinlong Bridge is an iron-chain suspension bridge across the Jinsha River between Qihe in Lijiang and Zili in Yongsheng, built in 1876–1880 and long an important crossing on the Tea Horse Road between Lijiang, Yongsheng and Sichuan. Sixteen iron chains of about 500 links each carry its 138-metre plank deck, with two more as handrails, between stone abutments topped by gate pavilions. Because the site lies in a hydropower reservoir's flood zone, the bridge was rebuilt in place about 6 metres higher, a project completed in 2016.
How to get to Jinlong Bridge
About 80 km by road south-east of Lijiang Old Town, roughly 2 hours' drive.
Nearby
- Lijiang Old Town 丽江古城 20 km
Cobbled lanes, rushing canals and Naxi courtyards beneath a snow-capped peak - Jade Dragon Snow Mountain 玉龙雪山 40 km
A glacier-hung massif on Lijiang's doorstep, with a cable car to over 4,500 metres - Tiger Leaping Gorge 虎跳峡 50 km
A classic two-day trail high above one of the world's deepest gorges
Also within 20 km: Guanyin Gorge 观音峡 (10 km), Black Dragon Pool 黑龙潭 (20 km).
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