Driving Route:
Shenyang-Xiaoshi-Mt. Guanmen-Tanggou. The whole course is 160 kilometers. Mt. Guanmen, located in the mountain area of southeast
Liaoning Province, is a part of Mt. Qianshan of Mt. Changbaishan Range. It belongs to the half-humid climate of the North Temperate Zone, with four distinct seasons, abundant rainfall and rich vegetation resources.
Mt. Guanmen is praised as "scenery beautiful like
Guilin, water clear and mountains green like Jiangnan", because of its deep valleys, clear creeks, light reflected from lakes and mountain shadow, floating clouds and fog, green trees, singing birds and fragrant flowers. Mt. Guanmen has 5 characteristics-beautiful mountains: steep and pretty like a potted landscape; beautiful fog: clouds and fog like light yarn winding around in valleys at dawn and dusk as well as after rain; beautiful trees: great varieties of trees, especially famous for the autumn scenery of maple trees; beautiful flowers: heavenly maiden lily magnolias, mountain azalea and Jindai keep blooming for three seasons each year, fragrant and pleasant. Clouds, mountains, water and fog in Mt. Guanmen mix together, which looks very fascinating.
Mt. Guanmen is a natural animal and plant park with a forest coverage of 95 percent. There are 51 sorts of rare trees, such as pines, oaks, China firs, Chinese catalpas, elms, China lindens, Amur Cork-tree, Chinese gooseberry as well as heavenly maiden lily magnolias and Jindalai; over one hundred plants for medical use, such as ginseng, xishen and Schisandra chine sis. There are such familiar animals as black bears, roe deer, boars and rabbits. In addition, there are over 10 varieties of aquatic products. So Mt. Guanmen is a god-given natural museum. In the famous high-temperature spring of Tanggou, there has been built Forestry Worker's Sanatorium of Liaoning Province with complete service facilities.