Shunan Bamboo Forests Travel Guide
Characterized by bamboo scenery, the Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea is a China's National Scenic Spot', one of 'the 40 Best Tourist Attractions, a 'Chinese Biospheric Protection Zone', 'the First AAAA Class Tourist Attraction'. It locates in the southwest Liantian Mountains Which border the Changning County and Jiangan County of Yibin City, and covers an area of 120 square kilometers with an elevation from 600 to 1000 meters. In its central region, more than 5000 hectares of big tall and upright bamboo, shelters 28 ridges and peaks high and low, 500 hills big and small. Bamboo grows in the fields at different levels and in the mountains and hills that stretches long and far.
The place seems like a misty vast green sea. Hence comes the name of 'Bamboo Sea'.The Southern Sichuan Bamboo Sea, one of the most beautiful land of happiness given by the nature, with many cultural relics and historic sites screened by green bamboo, is a fresh and clear back garden of Yibin City. A tour to the beautiful and elegant Bamboo Sea is a tour to the splendid bamboo culture of long history, a tour more mysterious and interesting, far from the mortal world.