Trilogy Tour Wuling Mountain, Baiheliang Museum and 816 Project

What's included

What you'll see and do

1. Jiefangbei Square

   Pick up from hotel and be on the road for 1.5 hours to get our first site.

   90 minutes here

2. Baiheliang Carved Museum

   The White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum is the world’s first and only in-situ underwater heritage museum – a place where you stand 40 meters below the Yangtze River and gaze through portholes at stone carvings over 1,200 years old. Once a natural ridge that appeared only during dry seasons, it collected 170 inscriptions from Tang Dynasty scholars and officials, including ancient poetry, calligraphy, and the earliest known records of Yangtze river levels. When the Three Gorges Dam permanently submerged the ridge, China built an underwater steel shell to protect it in place. Visitors take a submerged escalator and a tunnel down to observation windows, where history floats silently outside the glass – no diving suit required.

   60 minutes here · Admission included

3. 816 Nuclear Military Plant

   The 816 Nuclear Project is a decommissioned underground plutonium production facility carved entirely into a mountain in Chongqing – the largest man-made cave system in the world, hidden from public knowledge for nearly 40 years. Over 20,000 soldiers and engineers worked in absolute secrecy during the Cold War, digging 18 massive concrete-lined halls and over 12 miles of tunnels deep inside Wuling Mountain. Visitors today walk through the reactor hall that was designed to house a 150-megawatt nuclear reactor, stand inside the giant computer room that never received its final equipment, and feel the cold wind blowing through blast-proof doors weighing over 30 tons. It is a haunting monument to wartime paranoia, abandoned ambition, and the engineering extremes of 20th-century China – a secret underground city that never went critical, now open to the light.

   90 minutes here · Admission included

4. Chongqing Wuling Mountain Forest Park

   The Wuling Mountain Great Rift Valley is a raw, narrow slash through the limestone heart of Chongqing's eastern highlands – a place where stone walls rise hundreds of meters on both sides and the sky becomes a thin white line overhead. A wooden walkway bolts directly onto vertical cliffs, leading visitors through ancient fissures carved by underground rivers over millions of years. You pass through the "Heavenly Gate," cross a swaying bridge between two peaks, and listen to water dripping from moss-covered rocks in near-silence. Unlike the man-made secrets of the 816 Nuclear Project or the submerged history of White Crane Ridge, this is nature's own hidden corridor – cool, damp, and dramatically untouched. No elevators, no portholes, just a deep crack in the earth waiting to be followed.

   240 minutes here · Admission included

5. Jiefangbei Square

   After visiting all three sites, we will drive back to your hotel.

   90 minutes here

Where it starts and ends

Before you book

Cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Languages

cmn, en

Ticket

Mobile Only

Runs on

Every day

Group size

Up to 5 travelers per booking

Operated by

Wow Trip

Know before you go

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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