Lotus Peak

Halfway between Water Curtain Cave and Da Hong Pao Valley. A nicely-shaped rock but you can only walk past it within the valleys and no climbing is possible.

Ancient wooden buildings built into an inaccessible crack in the cliff, once accessed via a pulley system. Can be seen from the trail but not visited.

This magical and enchanted valley produces the best and most expensive tea on Wuyi Mountain and is a tranquil and beautiful place. The tourist stop is not the best place to see anything but walking from here to the Water Curtain Cave goes through tea valleys and past the Eagle Beak Mountain, through some of the best places to see in the northern area. The main area has a tea shop that has cheap tea in bowls, tea eggs, and very expensive tea for sale.

A waterfall (not really any cave) with a small old shrine behind it and a massive rock. Reachable from its bus stop by walking 20-30 min on a road to the base and then 5-10 min up to the waterfall. You can walk a small loop and end up back at the main path to continue to the tea valleys (towards Da Hong Pao and Tianxin Yongle Temple) or just return to the bus station.

Tianxin Yongle Temple is a quiet and peaceful temple visit. From the main entry courtyard the left has a tea room which will serve tea to guests at no cost. Further in on the right is the dining hall. Eating with the monks is a fun experience. They have a donation box where you can put a few dollars. Lunch starts at 11:00. To eat grab a bowl and chopsticks off the rack in the back left corner. Take what you want and eat what you take. When finished go through the door in the same corner and turn right. There is an area to wash your bowls. Return the bowls to the rack to dry. From a large pagoda a few hundred metres past the temple, there is a trail through tea valleys that connects with the Da Hong Pao-Water Curtain Cave route.

Great scenery, which includes tea fields, an old temple, rocks, and rural buildings. This spectacular area is almost completely omitted by domestic tourists because it is a long (>1 km) walk from the nearest bus stop. The north entrance to its trail is a stone stairway at the entrance to the Da Hong Pao parking lot, and in the south it emerges at the back of Tianyou Peak. The connection south to Tianyou Peak was commissioned by tea merchants in the 1700s, and passes through some narrow gaps between rocks, over old stone bridges, and through valleys filled with tea fields.