When is the best time to go to Hukou Waterfall?

It is best to travel to Hukou of the Yellow River in the summer when there is more rain. It is best to go after the rain.

Not only can you watch the water of the Yellow River being harvested in a pot, it is magnificent and indescribable, you may even encounter a rainbow. In winter, when the water surface freezes, there will be drifting and ice hanging landscapes. There will also be rare and huge icefalls.

Hukou Waterfall is the second largest waterfall in China and the largest yellow waterfall in the world. The Yellow River flows here. The stone walls on both sides stand steeply and the estuary is as narrow as the mouth of a Hukou, so it is named Hukou Waterfall. The water surface of the Yellow River upstream of the waterfall is 300 meters wide, and is compressed to a width of 20-30 meters in a distance of less than 500 meters. The river water of 1,000 cubic meters per second pours down from the cliff more than 20 meters high, forming the style of "a thousand miles of Yellow River harvests in one pot".

Every sunrise, there will be a rainbow flying over the mouth of the pot, colorful, like a fairy bridge. An ancient poem said, "There is a god at the bottom of the water who stirs up stone waves, and there is a rainbow hanging on the bank when there is no rain." After the Hukou Waterfall falls into the dragon trough, water drops fly down and the rising water mist is refracted by the sun, and you can see a clear outline, colorful and dazzling rainbow above the waterfall. It is said that this rainbow is the incarnation of the dragon. Whoever sees the rainbow at the mouth of the Hukou will live a happy life.