Yeyuhai Resort 野玉海

About Yeyuhai Resort

Yejiping sits at an average elevation of about 2,300 metres in a plateau monsoon climate, with an average temperature of 13 degrees, 240 frost-free days and 1,175 millimetres of rain a year on the municipal government's figures. The resort as described there takes in flower fields, wetland, lakes and pine forest alongside sports grounds and tracks, resort hotels, a military experience camp and a practical training base. Yushe National Forest Park, one of the cores of the scenic area, covers 34 square kilometres on a spur of the Wumeng mountains at the head of the Pearl River system; the municipal page gives it a total area of 50,314 mu and a range of altitude from 1,700 to 2,503 metres.

The third component is a built settlement. The Haiping Yi culture town lies in the south of Shuicheng and was built around the Haiping poverty-relief resettlement site, planned in six clusters after the Yi historical division known as the six ancestors' branches, with architecture combining traditional Yi stilt houses, courtyards and earth-walled houses. Inside it are a Yi customs street and a commercial street, a Torch Festival square, the Nine-Tiered Palace history and culture museum, a solar calendar square, a whip-and-top museum and a Ximuzhe square. The World Whip and Top Museum is itself built as a cone narrower at the base than at the top, in the shape of a spinning top. On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth lunar month, local Yi people gather at the Haiping torch square for the Torch Festival, singing and dancing round bonfires into the night.

What to look for

• The Haiping Yi culture town, laid out in six clusters after the Yi tradition of the six ancestors' branches, in stilt-house, courtyard and earth-walled styles.
• The World Whip and Top Museum, a cone-shaped building narrower at the base than at the top, built in the form of a spinning top.
• The solar calendar square and the Nine-Tiered Palace history and culture museum, both within the Yi town.
• Yushe National Forest Park, 34 square kilometres on a spur of the Wumeng mountains, rising from 1,700 to 2,503 metres.
• The Yejiping plateau base at about 2,300 metres, with its flower fields, wetland, lakes and pine forest.

Location & getting there

Getting to Yeyuhai Resort

Check weather, trail access and the last return service. A mountain or forest area is not one entrance, and a map’s central pin may be far from the trailhead.

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