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| The breathtaking landscapes, beautiful coastlines, cultural delights and historical significance, make Vietnam an enjoyable stop in Asia travel map. To help you plan a trip in
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YUANMOU TULIN EARTH FOREST IN YUANMOU COUNTY |
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The Earth Forest in Yuanmou, a provincial class scenic spotis made up of five areas, including the old city, Xinhua - bangguo - wumao region and Jinsha River valley. Its representative landscape soil forest is distributed to Xinhua, Bangguo, Wanbao and Tiger Leaping Beach, covering an area of 50 km. It was formed by geological movement and soil erosion one or two million years ago. It is named for its shape like immense forest and the main composition of the expansion earth. The Earth Forest, the Stone Forest and the Colorful Sand Forest in Luliang are called "the Three Forest in Yunnan".
The whole landscape of the Earth Forest in Yuanmou is mainly castle, screen, curtain and column, including the highest about 40 meters and very grand. Looked at closely, the shapes look like persons and animals highly realistic and animated among them.
Here are one of the well-known birthplace of humanity and a treasure house of ancient living things fossils. Lufeng Fossil Ramapithecus about 8 million years ago, Yuanmou Man(Homo Erectus Yuanmouensis) about 1.7 million years ago and Lufeng dinosaurs of 1.8 billion years ago were excavated here. Many archaeologists from home and abroad regard Chuxiong Prefecture as the cradle of humanity and "The home of ancient living things". Huge Mallet white tower of Dayao built in the Tang Dynasty has a rare shape in Chinese ancient buildings. The large bronze statue of Confucius at Wen Temple Shiyang town is the only one that well preserved in Chinese mainland. |
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