Dawei Mountain National Forest Park
The Mount Dawei National Forest Park is located on Mount Dawei in Liuyang County. It is around 136 kilometers from Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. The park is 180 square kilometers in circumference and the core scenic zone occupies an area of 38 sq km.
It boasts fantastic mountains, beautiful waters, deep forests and weird rocks. Its highest peak, on the Seven-Star Range, is 1,607.9 meters above sea level and is the highest spot around Changsha.
Due to its high elevation, the vegetation is distributed vertically. On the mountaintop, there is a grassland with an area of more than 1,333 hectares and alpine azaleas which cover an area of 2,000 hectares. The grassland contains 13 alpine lakes and the three-step Maweicao waterfall which has a drop of around 140 meters. As the mountain is high and the forest dense, it is very cool in summer in the forest park with an average temperature of 23.9C in August. The temperature on the mountaintop is 15C lower than it is at the foot of the Mountain.
Editor: Xu Xinlei
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