What is the route for a self-driving tour from Xi’an to Mount Taibai? You can choose to take the sightseeing bus all the way, or you can take it for a while and then hike. You can choose according to your own needs. Other detailed information is shown below.
Mount Taibai is located in Mei County and Taibai County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, China. It is the main peak of the Qinling Mountains, with a maximum elevation of 3771.2 meters, the highest peak east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in mainland China. The Qinling Mountains are the natural dividing line between north and south China, and also the watershed of the Yangtze River and Yellow River.
Mount Taibai is about 120 kilometers away from Xi’an City, and it takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes by car. You can go back and forth in one day!
Travel Route
1. Take the Xi’an-Mount Taibai Tourism Line from Xi’an Bus Station, directly to Mount Taibai Visitor Center. Daily travel time: 8:00-18:00.
2. Take a bus from Xi’an City West Bus Station, every 20 minutes there is a fixed-point bus from Xi’an to Mei County on the Xi Bao Expressway, to Mei County Bus Station; then transfer to Bus 203 to reach the destination.
3. Self-driving: Take the Xi Bao Expressway from Xi’an, get off at the Mount Taibai exit, and go straight to Mount Taibai Visitor Center along the Fating Highway.
Travel Guide
1. Take the sightseeing bus all the way
Recommended route: Take the scenic tour bus from Mount Taibai Visitor Center. Along the way, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery, such as Lotus Peak Waterfall, Po Mo Mountain, and Paradise. It takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes to reach Red Birch Flat at an altitude of 2280 meters. Then take the Tianxia Cableway to Tianyuandifang. After sightseeing, return the same way.
Suitable for: Tourists with limited travel time, who are unwilling to hike and have elderly people or children with them.
Round trip time: About 4 to 5 hours.
2. Sightseeing bus + hiking
Recommended route: Take the scenic tour bus from Mount Taibai Visitor Center. After about 1 hour and 30 minutes, you will arrive at Red Birch Flat at an altitude of 2280 meters. Take the Tianxia Cableway to Tianyuandifang. Walk to Xiaowen Gong Temple, pass Dawen Gong Temple and Daye Hai, and finally climb to Bashentai. Then return the same way downhill.
Two ways to play for a one-day self-driving tour from Xi’an to Mount Taibai
Suitable for: Tourists with strong physical fitness and experience in mountain climbing.
Round trip time: About 5 hours
Main Attractions
Lotus Peak Waterfall
Looking down from the air, the nine mountain peaks are combined like a blooming lotus, hence the name Lotus Peak. The Lotus Peak Waterfall is over 80 meters high and flows straight down, which is spectacular. In winter, the entire waterfall is frozen into a crystal-clear ice waterfall, attracting many ice climbing enthusiasts to climb.
Po Mo Mountain
Po Mo Mountain Scenic Area is located at an altitude of 1200 meters, 18 kilometers from the mountain gate. The air contains 12,000 negative oxygen ions per cubic centimeter. The air is fresh and the temperature is comfortable. This is where the poet Li Bai drank wine and wrote poems, and got drunk and splashed ink.
Paradise
Here, the streams are naturally interesting, the waterfalls are staggered, the bridges, ancient trees, caves, are picturesque. The sound of springs, insects, and birds, can be heard, the negative oxygen ion content in the air is as high as 15000 per cubic centimeter, the air is fresh, and it is very comfortable. It also grows the national second-level protected tree species, the fragrant tree.
Red Birch Flat
Red Birch Flat Scenic Area is located at an altitude of 2260 meters, and is named because it is located in the red birch forest zone. Actually, in the eyes of plant experts, the birch forest zone is mostly unstable and a transitional forest zone, which is difficult to gather into a forest zone on a large scale. But in the Mount Taibai National Forest Park, from the elevation of 2300 meters upward, the first thing you see is the red birch forest zone, which is “the mountains are all red, and the forests are all dyed”. Red birch trees are tall, with orange-red bark, smooth and shiny, thin as paper, so they are also called paper birch.
Tianyuandifang
Tianyuandifang is located at an altitude of 3511 meters. It is the boundary between the north and south of the Shenzhou, and the watershed of Huaxia. If you sprinkle a cup of water here, half will flow into the Yangtze River, and the other half will flow into the Yellow River. Therefore, there is a saying that “one foot steps on the north and south, and the rivers flow separately”.
Daye Hai
The most impressive thing on the top of Mount Taibai is Daye Hai. Daye Hai is at an altitude of 3590 meters. There is no source around it, but the lake water overflows all year round. The surface of the lake is clear blue and spotless. There is a kind of white-headed bird living by Daye Hai, which picks up any weeds on the water surface and flies away. The locals call this bird “the cleaning bird” or “the cleaning boy”.
Bashentai
Bashentai is at an altitude of 3771.2 meters and is the highest point of Mount Taibai. It is said that this is where Jiang Ziya appointed generals and conferred gods, and selected immortals. Bashentai is like an irregular triangular cone, solitary and towering, reaching for the sky, with steep sides on three sides, a wide and flat top, sloping southwest, wide in the west and narrow in the east. Watching the sunrise early and the sunset late, the light is overflowing, the glow is thousands of miles long, the scenery changes thousands of times, which is refreshing.
Ticket price
Peak season (March 1 to November 30): 90 yuan/person
Off-season (December 1 to the end of February next year): 54 yuan/person
Student ticket: 45 yuan/person
Free ticket policy: Active military personnel (including military academy students), armed police officers’ certificates, press cards, tour guide certificates, disability certificates, travel agency manager qualification certificates, monks, Taoist priests’ certificates, children under 1.2 meters (including 1.2 meters) are eligible for free admission. Military retired cadres over 60 years old are eligible for free admission with valid certificates. Seniors over 65 years old (including 65 years old) are eligible for free admission with a senior citizen card or ID card.
Preferential policy: Children aged 1.2 meters to 1.4 meters (including 1.4 meters); full-time college and university students (below undergraduate level) are eligible for discounted tickets with valid student ID cards.
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