Sanbai Mountain, is a stretch of rolling peaks on the southeast border of Anyuan County, the source of Dongjiang River, supplying drinking water to Guangdong and Hong Kong residents. The AAAA National Tourist Attraction, also national scenic area, forest park, is first listed among ecological education demonstration bases of “Mother River Preservation”, accredited as the sole tourist attraction nationwide of “tracing to the source” significance to Hong Kong compatriots.
The scenic spot, sprawling 197 km2, offers the core sighting of 98 km2. Its six wonders embrace “source waterfall group, 300 peaks, deep ravines with dangerous shoals, high mountains with lakes, primitive forest sea and volcanic landform". Additionally, 100-odd spots of natural scenery and cultural landscape are dotted about in its five tourist areas, including Fuao Pond, Butterfly Grand Canyon (Jiuquxi), Dongfeng Lake, Yangtian Lake, and Spike Peak Brush.
Its reputation as "summer resort", or "natural oxygen bar" is thanks to its forest coverage rate of 98%, exuberant wildlife, a plentiful concentration of negative ion in the air, 100,000/cm3 at the highest, as well as average annual temperature of 15.1℃, 23.3℃ on average in summer.
Scenic Area of Fuao Pond, literally blessed turtle pond, 850m above sea level, is also renowned as "The Volcano Jade Pool". The lake retains water in an ancient crater, resembling a legendary turtle with a dragon’s head and a fish’s body. As a lively legend goes, the turtle pacifies the volcano, allowing peaceful living of surrounding villagers, hence the saying "the fairy carp leaps over the dragon gate, incarnated into a turtle suppressing the volcano". Spanning 14.83 km2, the Area has main scenic spots like Fuao Pond,The Grandest Waterfall in Dong River, Siyuan Tripod,Sanbai Mountain's Forest Sea, Aerial Stand,Glass Viewing Stand, Tianyin Wondrous Pine, Manyun Plank Road, Glass Cable Bridge, Aerial Stand,Sword-tip Peak, to name a few.
The Grandest Waterfall in Dong River, also labeled as Fuao Pond Falls, gets its renown as the Grandest Waterfall in Dong River originating from "Dongjiangyuan" titled by Ye Xuanping, former vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC) Committee. It has a fall of nearly 100 meters, with precipitous towing cliffs and high trees on both sides, extensive and joyful view of distant green mountains and the expanse of forest in its front.
Siyuan Tripod, marking the 10th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland in 2007, was sponsored with donations sourced from the wide community of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Hong Kong. The 4,065-ton replica from Xizhou Dynasty, 4.65 meter high, reveals the implication of 465 kilometers from here to Hong Kong, with 330 cm in diameter referring to the homophony of Sanbai Mountain, namely Sanbai Mountain.
The statue of Dripping Guanyin is amiable and solemn in appearance, holding a water bottle in its left hand and a willow branch in its right hand. Bodhisattva stands on the lake bank of Dongjiangyuan in Sanbai Mountain, opposite to Siyuan Tripod, spreading sweet dew to the common people under heaven. The statue is 11.69m high in total, commensurate with the elevation of the main peak. Its main body is 9.36m high, plus the 2.33m high lotus base. Its pattern and technique are in line with the doctrine of Buddhism, possessing characteristics of aesthetics, architecture, sculpture and Buddhist figure art of times.
The hardcore scenic spot across mountains stretches 3,166 m, including 80 m glass plank trail, starting with Fuao Pond, through Aerial Stand, Tianyin Wondrous Pine, and Sword-tip Peak, to Bamboo Grove parking lot. Overlooking from afar, the plank path high up in the cloud winds its way across the mountain like a hanging belt. A walk on it affords a panoramic view of natural scenery in the northwest of Sanbai Mountain, in particular, the towering wavy trees all around. Once treading on it, tourists can have a feast of sighting on continuous summits, fabulous trees, a sea of clouds and roaring waterfalls.
The Glass Viewing Stand acts as an amazing platform to admire the breath-taking scenery of Sanbai Mountain, apart from experiencing unique adventure onto it.
The overpass of glass, the longest glass cable bridge of all time across Jiangxi, straddles 330 m, with a mere width of 2.5 m and a whopping height of 198 m, as if being supported high up in the clouds, definitely a wonderland on earth.
Taihang macaque, which belongs to the family of Old World monkey, order of Primates in evolutionary system, listed as State Second-Class Protected Animal. The monkeys are strong, with long hair, short tail and handsome body, gathering in large group, good at climbing, leaping, quickly-moving, and imitating. As the most evolved train among macaques, these monkeys are amusing, interesting and interactive, the most popular tourism projects at present across the world.
Peacock, anciently called phoenix, respected as king of all birds throughout history, has profoundly associated with human evolvement, holding a persistent all-time fame ranging from art, legend, literature to religion, highly acclaimed as a blessed, harmonious and happy bird.
The Dongfeng lake, a medium-scale reservoir constructed at the source of Dongjiangyuan in 1965, holds a 47.4 m-high dam, with its crest arc being 113.8 m long. The whole water body contains a capacity of 11 million m3, extending roughly 4 km from east to west, 50-120 m from south to north. The lake scenic area embraces Dongfeng Lake, together with mountainous regions on both sides, covering 9.44 km2, along which suffuse emerald hills and green trees. The highlights here go as follows, Flying Rainbow Over Gorge, General Chair, General Cliff, Temple of Three Heroes, Guanyin's Bless of Birth, Hanfeng Beach, Ms. Wang Herding Horses,Lover Tree, among others. Hopping onto a boat towards the voyage around the mountains, visitors can savour the landscape to their hearts’ content, as if in a haven of peace, tasting the epic charm of "boating on ripples, traveling in paintings".
Zigzag Eighteen Beach Scenic Spot Scenic Spot, refers to a stream converging hundreds of creeks in Sanbai Mountain, specially the stretch of waterfront before emptying into Dongfeng Lake. Its course is full of twists and turns bypassing mountains, in particular a few grand curves, leaving shallow shoals or deep ponds one by one. Along either side, spread erecting peaks and luxuriant forests, sending the visual space the more obstructive with going inside further, unable to perceive water flowing. The fascinating spots contain Breast-Like Peaks, Shiyi Flying Spring, Fishhook Pool, Surfacing Giant Mussel, Finger Cliff, Sacred Alligator Lake and more.