Yuanmou Earth Forest

Yuanmou Earth Forest, 189 km away from Kunming, is Yunnan’s most famous place for the earth forest. The earth forest is a typical topographic formation by piles of earth accumulating at least 1.5 million years, and survived frequent earthquakes. The earth crannies caused by crust movement were deepened and widened by natural force, eventually giving birth to earth pillars. These earth pillars look vividly like a forest from the distance thus the name “earth forest”.

Covering a total area of over 50 sq km., Yuanmou Earth Forest mainly includes three parts: Banguo, Xinhua and Hutiaotan. It astonishes lots of visitors with its exotic and erecting earth pillars of which the highest one is nearly 40 m or as high as a 10-storey building. It is named for its shape like immense forest and the main composition of the expansion earth. The whole landscape of the Soil Forest in Yuanmou is mainly castle, screen, curtain and column, including the highest about 40 meters and very grand.

Like the stones (Stone Forest) in Kunming, the earth pillars in Yuanmou have been given various names by the locals. Some popular ones are Sword, Dali Three Pagodas, Dunhuang Grottoes, Pretty Girls, Labyrinth, Golden Pagodas and Writing Brush etc. Yuanmou Earth Forest deserves to be called “another natural miracle in Yunnan”.

How to get

A. Take Railway No. K114 from Kunming (12:38) and get off at Yuanmou (16:32; CNY 40), then take the bus to Tulin, and change to the carriage to the earth forest.

 B. Take Train No. 6162 from Kunming (07:43) and get off at Huangguayuan station (15:27), then take the bus to the earth forest.


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