Wumeng Mountain Jiucaiping Scenic Area

　　   Located at the northern end of Dawan Town in Liupanshui City, it can be reached by car from downtown Liupanshui in 30 minutes. Jiucaiping stands over 2,900 meters above sea level and is the highest peak of the Wumeng Mountain Range and of Guizhou Province. The summit of Jiucaiping is gently sloping, featuring a broad and intact planation surface. The terrain here is flat and gently undulating, with widely distributed columnar and bamboo shoot-like rock teeth, erosion grooves, and stone forests. The area boasts uniquely shaped peaks and bizarre rocks in a variety of striking forms.

　　    The scenery of Jiucaiping is a classic example of montane plateau landform. Jiucaiping was once part of a large-scale near-plain, which, due to intense crustal uplift and rapid river downcutting during the Cenozoic era, left behind remnants of the original near-plain now existing as semi-mountain ridges between heaven and earth.