Four-day tour of Wuhan and Wudang Mountain

Your guide and driver will pick you up from Wuhan Tianhe International Airport (WUH) and transfer you to your hotel. Check in to the hotel and relax.

After leaving the hotel, head to the Yellow Crane Tower. It is the most famous attraction in Wuhan. This existing Yellow Crane Tower was built in 1985. The tower itself is a magnificent example of traditional Chinese architecture, with its multi-tiered eaves and red-painted columns. Many famous poets and celebrities have visited the Yellow Crane Tower for inspiration, and have left many popular poems about the tower. Standing on the tower, you can overlook the Yangtze River and the beautiful scenery of Wuhan city.

Yellow Crane Tower

Following that, make your way to Guiyuan Temple. It has three groups of main buildings, including the Buddhist Sutra Library, the Mahavira Hall and the Arhat Hall. It is renowned in the Buddhist community for its beautiful architecture, exquisite sculptures, and rich collections. You can pray for a smooth career in Guiyuan Temple. According to the locals, praying for a smooth career in Guiyuan Temple is said to be very efficacious.

Guiyuan Temple

Return to the hotel area. There are many restaurants nearby where you can savor local Wuhan cuisine. Try authentic hot dry noodles, one of Wuhan's signature dishes flavored with unique sesame paste, or spicy crayfish if they are in season.

Wake up early and move on to the Hubei Provincial Museum. It is the only provincial comprehensive museum in Hubei Province, and also a cultural relics collection, research and exhibition institution, as well as a national 4A-level tourist scenic area. Hubei Provincial Museum has more than 240,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics in its collection, and nearly 1,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics at the national first-class level. You can wander through different exhibition halls, learning about the history and culture of Hubei province from pre-historical times to modern days.

Hubei Provincial Museum

After visiting the museum, the driver will take you to Hankou Railway Station to catch the high-speed train. From here you will take the high-speed train to Wudang Mountain. After arriving at Wudang Mountain, the driver will wait for you at the exit. Afterwards, head to the hotel in the Wudang Mountain area. Check in to the hotel and relax.

In the evening, choose a restaurant near the museum or in the city center. Try some other local specialties like steamed Wuchang fish, a famous dish in Hubei cuisine, which is tender and delicious.

After breakfast, you will set off for the Zixiao Palace on Wudang Mountain. The Zixiao Palace, the only building in Wudang that perfectly conveys the ancient Chinese architectural style, is known as the Hall of Purple Cloud. This large-scale timber-frame Taoist religious building is one of the few in ancient China with a raised-beam system. Its structure and layout are scientifically reasonable; its artistic style is harmoniously unified and blended with the natural environment. It is unique among all the ancient buildings of Wudang Mountain. When you visit this building, you will see the superb architectural techniques of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Zixiao Palace

After visiting Zixiao Palace, move on to Nanyan Palace. The ancient architecture of Nanyan breaks the traditional completely symmetrical layout and pattern in terms of technique, making it highly harmonious with the environment. The craftsmen cleverly took advantage of the terrain and built it along the mountains and rocks, making some buildings have significant height differences, and some small and exquisite, and there are groups of quadrangles and single corner buildings, which produce a strong artistic effect.

Nanyan Palace

After coming out of the Nanyan Palace, you will visit Taizi Slope. The main scenic spots in this area include the exquisitely designed well pavilion of Mozhen Well, the "Orthoceras," a Paleozoic marine invertebrate, and the mural of "Zhenwu Cultivating Perfection." At Taizi Slope, there is the Tianchi Waterfall that cascades down a hundred feet, the Dilei Pool, the unique structure of "one pillar supporting twelve beams" in Wuyun Building, osmanthus trees, and the Jiuqu Huanghe Wall. There is also the ancient path of the Upper and Lower Shibapan that looks like a fluttering ribbon, various grotesque rocks in the Jiudu Stream, and the precipitous and spectacular Yuxu Rock and other natural landscapes.

Taizi Slope

Take the cable car to Jinding (Golden Summit). At the highest point of Wudang Mountain, you can enjoy the magnificent views of the surrounding mountains. The Wudang Mountain Golden Summit, also known as Dayue Taihe Palace, is built on top of the highest peak of Wudang Mountain. It is renowned as a pillar reaching to the sky and represents the most spectacular vantage point for enjoying the scenery of Wudang Mountain.

Jinding (Golden Summit)

After coming down from Jinding, our driver will transfer you to Wudangshan Railway Station. Take the high-speed train back to Wuhan. Board your train and take away wonderful memories of your four-day adventure in Wuhan and Wudangshan.

Board your flight or train, and take away wonderful memories of your trip.