Sanqingshan, in Jiangxi's northeastern corner between Wuyuan and the Zhejiang border, is what happens when Huangshan's granite drama gets its own mountain: a crowd of pale pillars and mushroom rocks rising from subtropical forest, ringed by walkways bolted to the cliffs at 1,600 meters. Taoists named it for the "Three Pure Ones," three peaks that sit like seated deities, and UNESCO inscribed it as natural World Heritage for its granite landforms and old-growth forest. Most visitors leave saying the same thing: smaller crowds than Huangshan, views just as impossible.
