Tidal Bore at Yanguan, Haining, Zhejiang 浙江海宁盐官观潮
The Qiantang River tidal bore is at its most spectacular around Yanguan in Haining, and the crowds are biggest around the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Seen from afar the bore is a white line; it grows higher as it comes, roaring like thunder, and throws up spray as it strikes the stone embankment. The fish-scale seawall of the Ming and Qing and the Temple of the Sea God line the river, a classic place to watch the tide: the crossing tide, the single-line tide and the returning tide are best seen at Daquekou, Yanguan and Laoyancang respectively.
