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Xiaolangdi Dam Scenic Area 小浪底水利枢纽Xiǎolàngdǐ Shuǐlì Shūniǔ
4A scenic area · Luoyang, Henan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Luoyang
- Region
- Henan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area
About Xiaolangdi Dam Scenic Area
The visitor area at the south end of the Xiaolangdi Dam, the 154 m dam built across the Yellow River in 1994–2001 at the exit of its last gorge, mainly to control silt and floods. The main sight is the water-and-sediment flushing, usually run in early summer, when the outlet tunnels release jets of muddy water; in 2026 a viewing season ran from mid-June to early July.
How to get to Xiaolangdi Dam Scenic Area
On the south bank in Xiaolangdi town, Mengjin, about 40 km north of central Luoyang by road.
Nearby
- White Horse Temple 白马寺 30 km
China's first Buddhist temple, with Thai, Indian and Burmese halls beside it - Longmen Grottoes 龙门石窟 40 km
Some 100,000 Buddhas carved into riverside cliffs, watched over by a serene giant
Also within 20 km: Wanfoshan Grottoes 万佛山石窟 (20 km), Weipo Xinxu 魏坡·新序 (20 km).
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