武夷山
Wuyi Mountain
A UNESCO landscape of red sandstone cliffs, tea terraces, and river bends — the birthplace of oolong tea in Fujian.
武夷山
A UNESCO landscape of red sandstone cliffs, tea terraces, and river bends — the birthplace of oolong tea in Fujian.
Wuyi Mountain is where China's best oolong tea grows on terraces carved into red sandstone cliffs. The landscape is dramatic — the Nine Bend River winds through a 70-square-kilometer park of 36 peaks, with sheer rock faces rising from the water. Da Hong Pao ('Big Red Robe'), the world's most expensive tea, comes from six mother bushes clinging to a cliff face here; the tea from these bushes sells for more per gram than gold. Beyond tea, Wuyi has ancient cliff coffins (3,000+ years old) suspended in caves high on the rock faces, and the park offers bamboo rafting down the Nine Bend River.
