Since 1996, Lushan National Park has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage. The park is located about 120 kilometers north of Nanchang, and its peaks reach up to 1,474 meters high. Today, it is especially popular among Chinese visitors, but there was a time when the mountain and the region were also well-known to foreigners. Numerous villas, built by European and American merchants and diplomats from Shanghai, Wuhan, or Nanjing since 1895, still bear witness to this era. Numerous hiking trails run through the national park, offering hikers countless rock gorges, peaks, caves, forests, streams, and waterfalls.
