Shanxi Hukou Waterfall | Experience the spectacular view of the Yellow River coming from the sky
🏞Hukou Waterfall is a national scenic spot and a national 5A tourist attraction. It is located in Hukou Town, Jixian County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province to the east, and Hukou Town, Yichuan County, Yan'an City, Shaanxi Province to the west. It is a tourist attraction shared by the two provinces.
🌟Highlights:
Hukou Waterfall is the second largest waterfall in China and the largest yellow waterfall in the world. The Yellow River rushes to this point, with steep cliffs on both sides. The river narrows like a pot mouth, hence the name Hukou Waterfall. An average of one thousand cubic meters of river water per second pours down from a cliff more than 20 meters high, forming the momentum of 'a thousand miles of the Yellow River collected in a pot'.
❤Recommended reasons:
🔸Hukou Waterfall has eight wonders🔸
🌈Smoke from the bottom of the water
The Yellow River enters the 'pot mouth', the rapids rush down, the water mist rises, and the clouds connect with the sky. It looks like thick smoke coming out from the bottom of the water, which can be seen from ten miles away.
🌈Boating on dry land
Now you can only see the traces left by boating in the past.
🌈Rainbow playing in the water
The water mist formed by the repeated impact of Hukou Waterfall rises into the air, causing the sunlight to refract and form a rainbow.
🌈Mountains fly and seas stand
The Yellow River passes through a thousand-mile-long gorge, and the turbulent rapids rush to the pot mouth. Suddenly the flow is restrained and a spectacular waterfall is formed. Looking up at the water curtain, the rolling yellow water pours down from the sky, like thousands of mountains flying and the four seas pouring, forming the core view of Hukou Waterfall.
🌈Rain in clear sky
The hanging waterfall flows, and the formed water mist floats into the sky. Although the sun is in the sky, it is like a drizzle near the waterfall, wetting people's clothes.
🌈Thunder in dry weather
The Yellow River travels through the gorge, the surging waves are like thousands of troops and horses, roaring and shaking the river valley. When the waterfall falls and repeatedly hits the rocks and the water surface, it makes a huge noise, which echoes in the valley, just like thousands of drums beating together, thunder in dry weather, and the sound is transmitted ten miles away.
🌈Ice peaks hanging upside down
In the winter season, the dragon trough is frozen, and the water columns formed by the streams on both sides are like ice peaks of different sizes hanging upside down on the cliff. The rainbow appears and disappears from time to time, moving among them, the colorful and crystal clear complement each other, making tourists sigh at the magic of nature.
🌈Ten miles of dragon trough
Looking at the dragon trough from a distance, the winding stone trough in the gorge looks like a giant dragon shaking its head and wagging its tail. The pot mouth is the dragon's head, swallowing the huge flow of the Yellow River, and Mengmen is the dragon's tail, discharging the river water downstream.
📍Detailed address:
Yanhulu Road, Hukou Town, Jixian County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province
🕙Business hours:
Open from 06:30 to 17:30
⏳Play time:
It is recommended to spend about 3-5 hours
💰Per capita consumption:
Adult ticket for the scenic area is 90 yuan
🚉Travel strategy:
Self-driving or join a one-day tour group
🍲Food recommendation:
👍Shanxi's knife-cut noodles🍜 are very famous, and Linfen City, where Hukou Waterfall is located, is one of the main producing areas of knife-cut noodles. Tourists can taste authentic knife-cut noodles locally.
👍Mutton Paomo🌮 is a traditional delicacy of Shaanxi, and Linfen City, where Hukou Waterfall is located, is also one of the important producing areas of Mutton Paomo.
👍Cold noodles🍝 is a traditional snack in Shaanxi, and tourists can taste authentic cold noodles locally.
this is my highlights to the Yellow River. Hukou is the only waterfall on the river. It was magnificant and because it is summer now, the volume of water flowing is huge causing a roaring sound.
i visited the waterfall from Shaaxi side. it was astonishing. i was thrilled. and it definitely worths the 5hrs travel round trip.
On May 18, take the high-speed from Linyi City to the Hukou Waterfall Scenic Area (Figure 2) for about 2 hours. There is a enclosed area at the entrance but I don't know the specific reason (Figure 3). The highest temperature of the day was 37 degrees, very dry, and there were few sun-shading facilities on the way to the observation deck. Fortunately, the distance is close, you can take the Jingjiao bus (Figure 4) in the visitor center, get off and walk for 10 minutes to the main waterfall observation deck. The Yellow River water was not much and clearer that day, and the river bed rocks were exposed in many places (pictured 5-6), but as the Yanhuang children stood by the Hukou waterfall, listening to the roar of the river flowing straight down, they would still feel proud and shocked (pictured 7-8). Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces share the beautiful scenery of Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River (Figure 9). Which side of the scenery is better? The statement I heard at the scene is that Shanxi is closer to the waterfall and the scene feels more shocking; Shaanxi is relatively far away, and the photo shooting is more spectacular. After watching the waterfall, you can go to the visitor center to stamp the cultural and creative seal (picture 1 video), and there are snacks such as fruit cold drinks yellow rice pot bar at the exit (picture 10). The pictures are all real pictures of the day, I hope it will be helpful to friends who want to see Hukou Waterfall.
A must go place of interest should you decide to go Xi-an. Depends on which season you go, a different scenery you will see. This photo was in Dec, there was a layer of ice formed but the other side you will see the water continue to flow vigorously. Can you see how tiny were the visitors standing at the river bank?
The river poured in from a five hundred-meter-wide river, its momentum as thousands of horses, squeezed, bumped, pushed, huddled, huddled, smashed into the stone wall, and crushed into piles of snow when rowing yellow waves; the rainbow rose from the bottom of the ditch, through the dragon trough, through the mist, disappeared into the blue background of the distant mountains.