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Three gorges along yellow river Inyongjing
Date:December 27,2004 | Click:5173

Three Gorges Along Yellow River
Dinosaur-footprint Fossils
Bingling Si Grottoes
Yellow River Wetland on Taiji Isle

The Three Gorges, namely Bingling Gorge, Liujiaxia Gorge and Yanguoxia Gorge in Yongjing County, was jointly created by geologic movement and natural hands of Yellow River.  Along the river, tourists can enjoy the steep cliffs, grotesque peaks,calm reservoir and other diversified colorful views on both sides of these gorges. Taking the tourist pleasure boat, you can appreciate a variety of fascinating scenic spots including Liujiaxia Reservoir, Bingling Si Grottoes, Dinosaur-footprint Fossils, Yellow River Wetland on Taiji Isle, Date Forest Scene and so on.  Located in the canyon of loess plateau, the project of grand Liujiaxia hydro-power station and wonderful reservoir is the first large one designed and constructed by Chinese themselves. Bingling Si Grottoes is a temple with a history of over 1600 years, and now in 183 remained caves there are murals of about 900 sq.m. and approximately 800 stone statues and clay sculptures. This temple features typically the stone carved statuary, the empaistic stupa and the murals of esoteric teaching of Tibetan  Budddism. It is among three biggest cave complex in Gansu together with other two, Mogao Grottoes and Maijishan Grottoes.  There are 46 groups of dinosaur-footprint fossil and 404 footprints of dinosaur remained in Yanguoxia Goege, the largest footprint with 140cm long and 120cm wide tops the others of its kind in the world in terms of both single footprint and the integrated scale.

 

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