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Huanglong Valley

Huanglong Valley is a calc-sinter ridge. It looks like a dragon, resting on the silver snow-capped mountains.

Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area has the typical features of Karst landform. It is the largest-scale Karst landform, with best preservation and various shapes in the world.

The clear spring flows down along the Snow Mountains. There is the splendid beach at Huanglong Valley. It calls Jin Sha Pu Di, which means the land is covered by golden sand. It is the largest calc-sinter flow in the world.

There are ponds with unique shapes, such as the Colorful Pond, Zhengyan Pond, etc. There is the largest calc-sinter cave-Xishen Grotto. Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area looks like a golden dragon lingering in the deep valleys. It is really "the Holy Land and the Paradise in the earth".

The splendid calc-sinter landform wriggles along the primitive forest. Over 3000 ponds scatter in the shape of terraced fields. Those ponds form eight groups of ponds, which look like the scales of the golden dragon. There are rich resources in the main scenic area of Huanglong Valley. Over 3400 ponds scatter in the valley, and the calc-sinter flow with over 80,000 square kilometers lies along the dense forest.

The waterfalls and those caves make Huanglong Valley more mysterious. Huanglong has rich resources of plants and animals, too. Therefore, it has been listed as "the protection area of biosphere in the world".

There are national first class protection animals, such as giant pandas, Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys, takins, Clouded Leopards, Lophophorus lhuysii, Chinese Hazel Grouse, etc.

There are over 21 kinds of the national second class protection animals, such as small Lesser Pandas, Small Indian civets, lynxes, Steppe cats, etc. Moreover, more than 1500 kinds of original plants grow in Huanglong Valley. As a result, Huanglong Valley becomes the shelter of many plants and animals.

 

 

 

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