zupermaus
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The biggest range of topographies in one country, set to become the biggest tourism destination within a decade. Enjoy the armchair travelling, put your feet up n take your time (there are over 100 pics), and do read the info: CHINA. not just cities No1. out of 17. 1.TEMPERATE FORESTS deciduous
Shennongjia, home to the mythical Wildman (read: Chinese Bigfoot)
Jiuzhaiguo
the worlds largest reforrestation programs
temperate rainforests
2.DESERT (sand desert, oases, rock deserts)
Dunhuang, with the worlds tallest dunes, thousands of years in the making, 1500ft high:
Shipton's Arch, recently 'rediscovered' by a National Geographic team in 2000 though the Chinese have known about it for millennia. The worlds largest, tallest natural arch, the Empire State Building would scrape underneath it at 1250 ft high
3.SUBTROPICAL FOREST (elephant country) Xishuangbanna
1500 ft Baishui waterfall, Guangzhou
4.TROPICAL RAINFOREST (read: jungle), secondary, primary Hainan thick secondary forest
untouched primary forest
(much more light)
5.MANMADE LANDSCAPES rice terraces (some of these landscapes took 2000 years to create, and cover thousands of sq. miles) Yunnan
Guangxi - (my one favourite pic of this thread)
Guilin
other farmland
(farmland continued) red earth regions
vineyards/ Mediterranean
http://images.google.co.uk/url?q=htt...l4XsWDzAHFuS6w rapeseed fields:
6.ICE DESERTS, Tibet
Xinjiang, where glacier meets desert - the only other place that this happens is Mongolia
summer oasis
winter solitude
Tsangpo river system
Summer, Namtso, Tibet
tundra and snowfields (Tibet and Manchuria)
the worlds snowiest area, NE Asia (Siberia, Japan, Korea, Manchuria)