Mountain Damao

Mountain Damao is also called Mountain Shenxian (Immortal). It is 1,898 meters above sea level and stands grandly at the juncture of Fuping County, Tangxian County and Laiyuan County.

There are immense forests, cloud seas, green towering mountains, flourishing trees, luxuriant grass, babbling springs and flying waterfalls. The beauty of the mountain forests in the south and the wildness of the grassland in the north are in one. It is a cool world where there is no hot weather during the hottest part of summer.

Mountain Damao Primitive Forest is green and luxuriant. The winding paths are dotted by the wild bushes. The higher you climb, the more perilous the mountain becomes and the denser the forests are. Below, clouds are like mist and the immense forests are like smoke. In more than 20,000 mu of mountain forests, there are Chinese pines, birches, mountain elms, poplars, bluish green cypresses, mountain apricots and walnuts. In the shade, there are more than 1,000 medicinal herbs such as ginseng and glossy ganoderma. Wild flowers such as wild camellia are in thousands of postures and intersperse among the medicinal herbs. Roe deer, Mongolian gazelles and small leopard cats are occasionally seen.

There are hundred of natural sights at Mountain Damao. In the northern valley mountain springs babble, and brooks and waterfalls can be seen everywhere. There is Huanglong Cave in the north, in which clear water runs incessantly year after year. At the south of the peak, there are several hundred mu of open land, where green grass is just like a carpet. After raining, if you stand on the top of the mountain and watch the clouds and mist in the distance, it will give you the feeling as if you were in a fairyland. In each winter and spring, the snow on the top of the mountain does not melt until days later, and “Snows at Mountain Hengshan” is one of the famous ancient sights in Tangxian County. Because there are many wild plants at Mountain Damao, it is feasible to do a plant investigation besides sightseeing. Within the boundaries of Fuping County, there are still the ruins of the Eighth Route Army's activities during the war, and many moving stories rarely known to the public circulate among the local people.

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