Atlas of China
Wuhai 乌海Wūhǎi
A small Yellow River city of calligraphy, a desert-edge lake and Neolithic faces
- Type
- City
- Region
- Inner Mongolia
- Listed sites
- 65 rated 4A · 1 national heritage
About Wuhai
Wuhai, a compact city on the Yellow River in the west of Inner Mongolia, was formed in 1976 by joining Wuda and Haibowan on either bank of the river. Wuhai Lake, a reservoir with 118 sq km of water, lies beside the Ulan Buh Desert, and the Contemporary China Calligraphy Art Museum stands in a city named a calligraphy city in 2008. At Zhaoshaogou on Zhuozi Mountain, more than a hundred Neolithic faces, among them a sun-god, are engraved on a limestone slope.
What to eat in Wuhai
- Stewed Yellow River carp (黄河大鲤鱼)
Listed sites in Wuhai
6 sites in Wuhai are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Contemporary China Calligraphy Art Museum 当代中国书法艺术馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A large art museum in Haibowan, built from 2010 in a city that the China Calligraphers Association named a calligraphy city in 2008. - Jinshawan (Golden Sand Bay) 金沙湾生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
Jinshawan is a desert recreation area north of Wuhai, set in a hollow between two facing sand hills, the eastern one rising to 156 m. - Menggenhua Eco-Leisure Park 蒙根花生态休闲区 4A scenic area · on the map
Menggenhua is a leisure park beside Wuhai airport that combines an indoor hot-spring and water-park complex with an amusement park, greenhouses and a peony garden. - Sunshine Tianyu International Winery 阳光田宇国际酒庄 4A scenic area · on the map
Sunshine Tianyu is a vineyard and winery visitor estate in Saihanwusu, Hainan District, south of Wuhai, that began receiving visitors in early 2015. - Wuhai Lake 乌海湖 4A scenic area · on the map
Wuhai Lake is the reservoir of the Haibowan water control project on the Yellow River, completed in 2013, and its 118 square kilometres of water lie between the Ulan Buh Desert and the city. - Rock Paintings of Zhuozi Mountain (Zhaoshaogou) 桌子山岩画群 National heritage site · on the map
The Zhuozi Mountain rock paintings, a national protected site spread across Wuhai and Ordos, are best seen at Zhaoshaogou, where more than a hundred Neolithic engravings, mostly human faces including the well-known sun-god face, cover a gentle limestone slope.
On the map
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