7 Days in Enshi

The Nine-Entrance Hall complex of the Tusi cultural park, the prefecture museum's galleries, then folk stages at Girl City after dark.

1. enshi tusi city
2. enshi museum
3. enshi tujia girl city

Sixty kilometres out: the ground-fissure boardwalks, then the Qixingzhai cliff trail to the One Incense Pillar, near 150 metres tall and about 4 metres at its waist.

1. enshi grand canyon
2. enshi yunlong fissure

About 40 minutes by rail; the cave runs 59.8 surveyed kilometres behind a 74-by-64-metre mouth, with an afternoon left for Lichuan town.

1. enshi tenglong cave

The karst field 54 kilometres north in Sunriver township — stone blades and squeeze-through lanes that stay cool in the shade.

1. enshi sobuya stone forest

About an hour and a half southwest: the lake road at Shiziguan crosses water on a floating causeway, and the Wujiatai tea terraces nearby have been sending tribute tea since the Qing court.

1. enshi shiziguan
2. enshi wujiatai tea garden

An honest long-haul day, about three hours each way to Hefeng county: boats glide over water so clear the hulls seem to float in air — book the timed entry, and keep an eye on rain, which turns the river.

1. enshi pingshan canyon

A slow cruise below the city's cliffs, packing and the evening train or flight from Xujiaping airport.

1. enshi qingjiang cruise