Chenzhou was used to be called Linyi which means city in the forest. The forest coverage rate is about 70%. The 19,400 square meters big city is an ideal place for people to enjoy a nice trip there. Blue sky, clear water, forest, mountain, cave, cloud sea and fall present a beautiful image to all visitors. Besides those, people can enjoy fresh air, fragrant flowers, tasty fruite and elegant tea there. Different from other cities, Chenzhou city is peaceful with harmonious natural atmosphere that you can enjoy a free spritual trip as well as healthy practice trip there. Chenzhou city is also with long history.

“One mountain, one lake, and one spring” are the essence parts of Chenzhou city’s landscapes. One mountain refers to Mount Mang, one lake refers to Dongjiang Lake, and one spring refers to hot spring.

Mount Mang is an original ecological mount with the best reservation of primitive forest compared with the ones in the same latitude of the world. It was famous as “the second Xishuangbanna of China” and “world’s gene bank of flora and fauna”. Hundreads of key national preserved flora and fauna are available there. The beautiful scenary, clear streams, ancient trees tower to the sky, and etc. there enabled it to be compatible to Zhangjiajie as well. You can enjoy different trips whenever you go to Mount Mang, such as azalea in the spring, cool weather and drifting in the summer, red maple in the autumn and snow in the winter.

The 160square meters big Dongjiang lake covers with 8.12billion cubic meters water. Tends of islands with different shapes are located there. It was honored as “Switzerland in the East”. The water of Dongjiang lake meets the first grde of national drinking water standard. The color of water will be changed by sunshine. In the morning, you can enjoy the foggy scenry there; in the day time, you can travel through the lake by a boat; in the dask, the water will be decorated with gold color by the setting sun. Besides those, Dongjiang drifting which is honored as “the first drifting of the Asian- Pacific region” is also available there. You can appreciate the gorgeous landscape on your risky drifting trip. “Foggy small Dongjiang river” is another famous scenery there which is wonderful view with the same fame as “Jilin rime”. You can have an overall look of Dongjiang lake if you climb to the peak of Doulv Lingyan peak.
The geothermal resources are abundant in Chenzhou city. More than 40 natural hot spring points have been explored in Chenzhou city with an annual flowing yield of over 23million cubic meters. Due to the hot springs are with abundant minerals and trace elements, they are healthy for people. Rucheng Hot Spring which is with the temperature of 98℃ and honored as the king hot spring of south China, Paradise Hot Spring which is honored as “milk of Mother Earth” by famous writer- Yu Qiuyu, Yuelai Hot Spring and Longnv Spring are the most famous ones of Chenzhou city.

Once you finisehd the trip to “one mountain, one lake, and one spring”, you can also go to Suxianling- the 18th blessing place of China where you can appreciate the blessing culture of China; Feitian Moutain- the national geological park; Yangtian lake-an alpine steppe; Wugaishan International Wildpark which is the exlusive open hunting gound in south China; Wanhuayan where is honored as “cave wonderland of the world” by Amercian scientific experts; and Banliang Ancient Village where is with the best view of south Hunan folk dwellings.