Sunday, March 30, 2014

Learn something about Kunming - Kunming Highlights II

Jiuxiang Cave Scenic Area
Located 90 kilometers from Kunming City Kunming tours, Jiuxiang is a scenic area famed for its striking karst caves, beautiful natural landscape, deep valleys, magnificent underground scenery and enchanting ethnic cultures. Covering a total area of around 200 square kilometers, it contains more than 100 karst caves going back some 600 million years, the most in number and largest in scale in China, hence it is reputed to be “a karst cave museum”. The five major scenic spots across the area include the Triangular Caves, the Overlapping Rainbow Bridge, the Upper Big Cave, the Long Sandy Bank and the Bright Moon Lake.
Jiaozi Snow Mountain
Jiaozi (Sedan) Snow Mountain, in the north of Kunming City, has become famous because its main peak looks like a sedan chair, known as the first mountain in the middle Yunnan. It is famed for its beautiful scenery of sea of clouds, Buddhist halo, sunrise, ice and snow world and sea of azalea. It will become an important ecological alpine tourist area in middle Yunnan after the construction of the projects for cross-country mountaineering, scientific study, alpine sightseeing and tour, and self-driving tour being completed.
Dongchuan Red Land
Dongchuan Red Land refers to a large area of red land located in Xintian Town Kunming sightseeing, 40km southwest of Dongchuan District, Kunming. Because of the warm and humid climate in Yunnan, the Iron oxide in the soil deposited slowly through years and gradually developed an extraordinary reddish brown soil. Dongchuan has the world’s most imposing red earth, even more magnificent than that in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. If there is one word that best captures Dongchuan Red Land, it must be “palette”. Red, green, white and yellow are matched into rolling rainbow ribbons stretching to sky. Dongchuan Red Land is more and more favored by backpackers, hikers and photographers.
Daguan Park (Grand View Park)
Daguan Park, or Grand View Park, is 2 kilometers southwest of Kunming and close to Dianchi Lake last minute China travel deals. The construction started during the Qing Dynasty. Inside the park are blooming flowers, green trees and unique pavilions, towers, bridges and streams, looking like a wonderland. The three-story Daguan Pavilion built by the water is very attractive and features a couplet hanging on the doorpost. Reputed as the “longest couplet in China”, it has 180 characters which describe the beautiful scenery of the Dianchi Lake in the first line and the history of Yunnan in the second.
Yunnan Nationalities Village
Located on the northern shore of Dianchi Lake, Kunming City, the Yunnan Nationalities Village showcases the culture, lifestyles and customs of the ethnic groups living in Yunnan Province. Thus far, 25 sub-villages of the minorities such as Dai, Bai, Yi, Naxi and Zhuang, have been constructed across the 1,264.96-mu-wide (84.33 hectares) scenic area. You can learn more about the various cultures, architecture, music and religious beliefs of these ethnic groups, while enjoying the scenery and landscaping of the scenic spot. You can also choose to take part in all kinds of activities and festival celebrations or have a taste of the village’s local food.
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