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Jilin Rime

Jilin City is situated at the bank of the river Songhua to the north of China. The temperature of Jilin decreases up to -30 degree Celsius in winter. Due to this low temperature and effect of south wind there is very high humidity. By the influence of weepage of the Fengman Hydropower Station, the temperature of the water is about 4℃ which makes water vapor to rise and attached to the cold objects and this forms the rime. This Rime also functions as the purification of air. So when you see the rimes you might also feel the fresh air.

The willows along the Songhua River bank blossom silver flower and pine blossom silver chrysanthemums when rime comes. It brings a picture of a wonderland. To this addition of beauty of rimes, you can also predict the weather as well as other information according to the character and period of rimes. These rimes are unique and beautiful at the same time.

Jilin Rime

 Stone Forest in Yunnan

Stone Forest is located in the Automous County of Shilin Yi in the city Kunming of Yunnan Province. It lies at the altitude of 1500 to 1900 m and have subtropics low altitude plateau mountain monsoon climate and having an annual temperature of nearly 16 degrees Celsius. Just at a distance of 78 kilometers from Kunming, the stone forest is the Karst scenic area of the sub tropic plateau. It has got reputation of the No. one wonder of the world and Stone Forest Museum.
About 200 million years ago, this place had a sea area with deposition of lot of big and thick lime stones. Later, due to the movement of geotectonic these huge lime stones exposed to the ground. About 2 million years ago, due to the dissolution, the lime stones get separated from each other and after several years of rain and wind erosion, this Stone Forest was formed.

The stones of Stone Forest are strange and odds and towering up from the ground. Some looks like the walls and some like the trees. The stone forest has attracted many tourists from domestic as well as abroad.

Stone Forest in Yunnan

 The Yangtze Three Gorges

Three Gorges is a magnificent valley with splendid landscape in the Yangtze River and one of the most famous scenic sites of China. It is about 193 kilometer long covering the essence of scenery on the River Yangtze. Within this distance, they are arranged in a way that one valley is narrow and the other is wide by turn to the other gorges. Due to this, the momentum of the water is pent-up in the narrow valleys and released in abruptly manner in gorges.

In bottle necks, the water rushes down wildly and swiftly. If you travel in a cruise ship in this part of River Yangtze you can enjoy the grotesquely shaped rock and magnificent mountains which are alongside the river. It is having a variety of landscape displaying its charm for several years.

The Yangtze Three Gorges

Imperial Palace
Imperial Palace is located in the heart of capital of China. Also known as the Forbidden City, it is the symbol of the imperial power in China. This palace was build during the period of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. This palace is the largest and well preserved building of the world. The architecture of the building is laid out very much precisely in accordance with the feudal code of architectural hierarchy which designated the specific features reflecting the status of emperor and paramount authority.

Forbidden City is the best example of traditional Chinese palatial architecture. It was listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of the preserved and ancient wooden structure in the world. It has also been renowned as the World heritage Site in the year 1987.

Forbidden City

Potala Palace

Potala Palace was originally build in 17^th century by the king Songtsen  Gampo. This inspiring palace perched high above much of the landmark of the city, Lhasa.

Potala Palace is built against the Red hill as has a spectacular castle like building complex of Lhasa. It was used to be the unification centre of religious and political of Tibet. It covers an area of more than 360,000 square meters and this palace is a blend of art with creative designing as well as gorgeous decoration. Due to its precious scriptures, conservative religious atmosphere, jewels, murals and antiques which are housed inside it has been placed in the list of UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.

Potala Palace

The Imperial Mountain Resort

The Imperial Mountain Resort is situated in the Chengde City which lies in the north eastern part of Hebei Province. It is one of the very popular summer resorts of the emperors of Qing Dynasty. It has an easy access to Beijing which is about 200 Km away from it and entitled as the backyard garden of Beijing.

The Imperial Mountain Resort has superb natural environment and it has served as the second political center of the Qing Imperial court. The emperors of early Qing Dynasty use to come here for spending their summer time, boating and hunting.

It is largest existing imperial garden of china and covering an area of 5.64 million square meters which is double as the Summer palace and eight times to that of Beihai Park, Beijing.

The Imperial Mountain Resort

The Great Wall

It is the star attraction and considered as the wisdom of the Chinese people as well as symbol of china. It is one of the spectacular defensive structures which were built in order to keep intruders from entering into the mainland. The construction of this Great Wall begun in the 5^th century BC and it continued for many centuries and different dynasties. And finally this Wall stretches from Jiayuguan Pass to the west to the Shanhiaguan Pass in east having a total length of about nine hundred kilometers transverse over nine provinces and municipalities.
It is also inscribed in the World Cultural Heritage Site by the organization UNESCO in the year 1987; the most famous sections within Beijing are Badaling, Simatai and Mutianyu.

The Great Wall

Forbidden City, Beijing
Forbidden City also known as the Imperial Palace museum is a very magnificent building complex which is located in the heart of Beijing. It was build during the period of Yongle from the Ming dynasty. It is the largest as well as well preserved wooden building complex of the World. They were laid out very much precisely in accordance with the feudal code of architectural hierarchy which designated the specific features reflecting the status of emperor and paramount authority.

Forbidden City is the best example of traditional Chinese palatial architecture. It was listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of the preserved and ancient wooden structure in the world and became World heritage Site in the year 1987.

Forbidden City, Beijing

Qin Terracotta Army, Xian
The terracotta Army is a famous attraction of China because of its uniqueness and Historical significance. It is significant as the hundreds of models of detailed life-size representing the army that has triumphed over all the other Chinese army and who have been the decisive factor in the formation of united China.

The Terracotta Army Museum is situated at the two kilometer east of The Tomb of Qin Shihuang, who is known as the first Emperor unifying China about 2,200 years ago. Emperor Qin, from whom country China has got its name, ordered for the creation of this model army. UNESCO has selected the Tomb of the First Emperor including the Terracotta Army Vaults as the World Cultural Heritage Site.

The statue of the army of terracotta was made for burying with the first Emperor Qin Shihuang as show of his glory and to remember that army which has got triumphed over the other Warring states for uniting the china and also because it was believed that the objects like the statues can be animated in afterlife and Qin Shihuang required the after death army.

Qin Terracotta Army

Qinghai Lake

Qinhai Lake or the Koko Nur means “a blue lake” in Mongolian and it is the largest salt lake and inland lake of China having a surface area of about 4,600 sq. Km. It is located at a distance of 100 kilometers from west to Xining which is the capital city of Qinhai Province and one of the most popular attraction of that area. This lake is fed by more than 40 rivers but mainly by Inverted River, Habu River and Gbagbolan River.

On the western side of this lake at the tip of the peninsula are the Bird Island or Cormorant Island and Egg Island which are having bird sanctuaries of the Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone since 1997. This lake often remains frozen for four months continuously during winter from December to March.

Qinghai Lake

Khanka Lake

Khanka Lake is also known as the Xingkai Lake in China and is a transborder freshwater lake located on the borders between Heilogjian Province of the Norther China and Primorsky Krai of Russia. It has an area of about 4200 square kilometers out of which 72 percent is located in Russia and 28 percent is located in China.

This lake actually consists of tow lakes, that is Khanka Lake and the Khanka Lake Jr. and these two lakes are separated by a sandy hill. The latter one is the serenity lake which is located in China. The area around these lakes has been an important habitat of the wetland and has formed National Nature Reserve on the Chinese side and Khanka Land Nature Reserve on Russian side.

Khanka Lake

Poyang Lake

Poyang Lake is third largest lake and largest freshwater Lake of China. It is located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River and to the northern part of the Jiangxi Province. It is also fed by the Xin, Gan and Xiu rivers and some other small streams. This all contribute to a total surface area of 35 hundred square kilometer and volume of about 25 sq. kilometer. The average depth of Poyang Lake is about eight meters during abundant period

It is very important habitat of the various migrating waterfowls like the White Naped Crane, White crane, Black Stroke, etc and one of the significant wetlands in China.

Poyang Lake