Wuhan >> Shennongjia Nature Reserve

Attraction Typ: Theme and Adventure Park

Location: more than 200 km from city

Recommend: 5 Star

Shennongjia Nature Reserve

Shennongjia Nature Reserve is a nature forest and a natural herbal medicine garden.

Hubei Shennongjia Nature Reserve (Chinese:神农架国家森林公园; pinyin: Shénnóngjià Guójiā Sēnlín Gōngyuán) is the wildest scenery with heavily forested mountains of fir, pine and hemlock – including something rare in China.

Shennongjia Nature Reserve got its name for the area roughly translates as "Shennong's Ladder" to commemorate a legendary emperor, Shennong, belived to be the founder of herbal medicine and agriculture. According to the legend, he heard about some special plants growing up high on a precipice, so he cut down a great tree and used it to climb to the site and reach the plants, which he added to his medical collection.

Shennongjia Nature Reserve lies between Daba and Wudang Mountain in the western part of Hubei Province. Lying between the transitional zone of south-western with high mountains and low hilly land of Central China, the Reserve has a total land area of 90,000 hectares. The nature reserve is rich in wild plants, including maidenhair trees, Chinese dove trees, metasequoias and other treasure plants. Besides, Shennongjia Nature Reserve is also a natural herbal medicine garden, having more than 1300 species of medicinal plants.

The most famous scenic spot in the Shennongjia Nature Reserve is the Shennong Top, the highest peak with the elevation of 3,105 meters. There are within the Reserve 31 peaks having their altitude of more than 2,500 meters above the sea level. A trip to the Shennongjia Nature Reserve will be very interesting that you can enjoy the cool and elegant waterfalls, rare animals and plants, as well as the mysterious "wild men".

In 1990, UNESCO accepted the Shennongjia Nature Reserve into the protection network of "Man and Biosphere". In 1992, it was selected as the "Demonstration of Natural Reserve of Bio-diversity" by the United Nations Development Program.