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Changbai Mountains -- Scenic Wonderland
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The world-famous Changbai Mountains, the source of the Tumen, Yalu, and Songhua rivers, are one of the most beautiful areas in China.
Endowed with rich natural resources and charming scenery, the mountains are dotted with scenic spots. A nature preserve has been established here to protect the area's animals and plants. Together with the nature preserves in Wolong of Sichuan province and Dinghu Mountain of Guangdong Province, it has become a base for international scientific research into China's indigenous wildlife.
Changhai Mountains can be reached by train from Changchun via Tonghua. All kinds of tourist facilities are available here.
Hot Springs
The springs, covering an area of over a thousand square meters, lie to the north of the Tianchi Lake and some nine hundred meters below the waterfall. The water temperature of some of the springs measures as high as 82ºC (180ºF), and the area is shrouded in steaming vapor all year round. As the water contains hydrogen sulfide, bathing pools have been built to provide bydropathic treatment.
Changbai Mountains Falls
This sixty-eight-meter waterfall pours down from a notch on the north bank of Tianchi, 1,250 meters above sea level. Poetically described as a great piece of silk suspended from the sky or a dancing silver dragon, the thunderous fall is one of the most magnificent sights in the Changbai Mountains.
Heavenly Lake (Tianchi)
The lake lies on the top of Baitou Mountain, the highest peak of the Changbai Mountains, and straddles the China-Korea border. It is actually a crater in which mountain streams converge from all directions. A typical alpine lake 2,155 meters above sea level, it covers 912 square kilometers and is 312.7 meters deep at its deepest point. For more than half of the year, the lake is covered with ice, but in summer, yachts are available for charter, and fishing is good. The delicious fish dishes prepared in the lakeside hotels are particularly recommended.
Changbai Mountains Nature Preserve
An enormous mountain wilderness stretches from the south of Autu and Fusong counties to the east of Changbai County in Jilin Province and borders on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Surrounding Changbai Mountains primeval forest, the preserve is 78.5 kilometers long and 53.3 kilometers wide and occupies more than 200,000 hectares. With a well-preserved natural environment and ecosystem, it is rich in biological species characteristic of mountainous regions.
There are more than eighty kinds of trees, including Korean pines and Changbai larches and spruces, and over three hundred kinds of medicinal plants like ginseng, Asia bell (Codonopsis pilosula), and Tian Ma (Gastrodia elata). Changbai Mountains ginseng gained its fame more than four hundred years ago. Most of the Chinese ginseng and ginseng medicine exports were processed from the Jilin ginseng produced in the Changbai Mountains. Among the rare animals living in the preserve are northeast Chinese tiger, sika, sable, lynx, and leopard, all having been listed as rare animals under state protection.
Famous Changbai Mountains, the source of the Tumen, Yalu, and Songhua rivers, are one of the most beautiful areas in China.
Endowed with rich natural resources and charming scenery, the mountains are dotted with scenic spots. A nature preserve has been established here to protect the area's animals and plants. Together with the nature preserves in Wolong of Sichuan province and Dinghu Mountain of Guangdong Province, it has become a base for international scientific research into China's indigenous wildlife.
Changhai Mountains can be reached by train from Changchun via Tonghua. All kinds of tourist facilities are available here.
Hot Springs
The springs, covering an area of over a thousand square meters, lie to the north of the Tianchi Lake and some nine hundred meters below the waterfall. The water temperature of some of the springs measures as high as 82℃ (180℉), and the area is shrouded in steaming vapor all year round. As the water contains hydrogen sulfide, bathing pools have been built to provide bydropathic treatment.
Changbai Mountains Falls
This sixty-eight-meter waterfall pours down from a notch on the north bank of Tianchi, 1,250 meters above sea level. Poetically described as a great piece of silk suspended from the sky or a dancing silver dragon, the thunderous fall is one of the most magnificent sights in the Changbai Mountains.
Heavenly Lake (Tianchi)
The lake lies on the top of Baitou Mountain, the highest peak of the Changbai Mountains, and straddles the China-Korea border. It is actually a crater in which mountain streams converge from all directions. A typical alpine lake 2,155 meters above sea level, it covers 912 square kilometers and is 312.7 meters deep at its deepest point. For more than half of the year, the lake is covered with ice, but in summer, yachts are available for charter, and fishing is good. The delicious fish dishes prepared in the lakeside hotels are particularly recommended.
Changbai Mountains Nature Preserve
An enormous mountain wilderness stretches from the south of Autu and Fusong counties to the east of Changbai County in Jilin Province and borders on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Surrounding Changbai Mountains primeval forest, the preserve is 78.5 kilometers long and 53.3 kilometers wide and occupies more than 200,000 hectares. With a well-preserved natural environment and ecosystem, it is rich in biological species characteristic of mountainous regions.
There are more than eighty kinds of trees, including Korean pines and Changbai larches and spruces, and over three hundred kinds of medicinal plants like ginseng, Asia bell (Codonopsis pilosula), and Tian Ma (Gastrodia elata). Changbai Mountains ginseng gained its fame more than four hundred years ago. Most of the Chinese ginseng and ginseng medicine exports were processed from the Jilin ginseng produced in the Changbai Mountains. Among the rare animals living in the preserve are northeast Chinese tiger, sika, sable, lynx, and leopard, all having been listed as rare animals under state protection.
(china.org.cn)
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