7 Days in Bengbu

The museum's Huaihe galleries cover 7,000 years of river valley life; afternoon on Zhanggong Hill's Wanghuai Tower over the city the 1911 Tianjin-Pukou railway built.

1. bengbu museum
2. bengbu zhanggongshan park

A lakeside circuit on the eastern shore, then the spirit-way statues at the tomb of Tang He, the Ming founding general who died in 1395, at the foot of Caoshan.

1. bengbu longzi lake
2. bengbu tang he tomb

The national archaeological park holds the 7,300-year-old mound village whose potters carved 630-plus symbols, then boardwalks through the Sanchahe reed beds.

1. bengbu shuangdun site park
2. bengbu sanchahe wetland

West of the Huaihe, the granite hill of the Yu-the-Great legends and the riverside dig at Yuhui village, a 4,100-year-old terrace linked to the "assembly of the lords" story.

1. bengbu tushan mountain
2. bengbu yuhui village site

An honest neighbour-city day — Bagong Mountain, where the 383 AD Fei River battle turned and where tofu-making is traced some 2,100 years, and Shouxian's Song-rebuilt wall of about 7 km circuit.

1. huainan bagongshan
2. huainan shouxian city wall

North-west to Huaiyuan county for the cliff spring the Song poet Su Shi praised, then the Fengzuizi village that keeps the Huagudeng drum-dance alive.

1. bengbu bairu spring
2. bengbu fengzuizi village

Some 450 timber houses moved here from collapsing villages stand around a lake at the "Rising Moon" park, then the HSR south from Bengbu South station.

1. bengbu husheng mingyue park