Showing posts with label China. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Tianmen Mountain is a mountain in northwestern Hunan Province, China.
It is also called Heaven Gate Mountain known due to a large natural ark, many Chinese believe that the Tianmen Mountain is the "Closest Earth Mark to God."

Larger view of Horseshoe Bend

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Arizona --- Horseshoe Bend

Arizona Horseshoe Bend -

Next photo of J0ch3N89 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Horseshoe Bend

Horseshoe Bend

Photo By Shridhar Nayak (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Horseshoe Bend

Horseshoe Bend

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Next Photo by Petr "Dragonovski" Shevelko (flickr)

 Horseshoe Bend, Arizona, USA

Horseshoe Bend, Arizona, USA

Next Photo By Shyamal1980

 Horseshoe Bend at sunrise

Horseshoe Bend at sunrise

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Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is China's first National Forest Park (as of 1982) and it is a home to the famous rock pillars that inspired the designers of the film "Avatar", was one of the stone pillars after renaming the floating mountains in the film and is now available as "Avatar Hallelujah Mountain", the column is known very impressive and is greater than 1 km! Zhangjiajie National Forest Park has many stone columns and they were portrayed in ancient traditional Chinese paintings.
Is Zhangjiajie National Forest Park is also home to the largest and highest outdoor elevator.

For more information visit Wikipedia - Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

Enlarge map of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park

Next photo of Thomas Dawson (website, fb page, flickr, photographer of the planet Earth)

 Zhangjiajie

Zhangjiajie

Next Photo by chensiyuan

(under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license) Zhangjiajie

Zhangjiajie

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Mao Zedong head statue is in Orange Isle, Changsha, capital of Hunan Province, China . The statue was unveiled on December 2009, (Mao's 116th birthday). The statue is 32 meters high. It took 2 years to build it. The cost was about 35 million US dollars (300 million RMB) were mined 8,000 giant granite bricks from Fujian and broght to Changsha. Location of the statue was a young man by a poem Mao Zedong wrote in selected 1925th The poem "Changsha" is one of his. known poems

For more information visit Wikipedia - Youth Mao Zedong Statue

Enlarge map of Mao Zedong head statue

Image by Goh

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 Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Photo by Jon Cassie

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Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Photo from 黄丹 (pd)

 Mao Zedong head statue

Mao Zedong statue head

Next Photo by Brendan van Son

Mao Zedong head statue, China

Mao Zedong head statue, China

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Ban Gioc Falls is on the border between Vietnam and China. It is considered to be the largest waterfall in Vietnam.
Ban Gioc Falls are (to September from May) made up of three main waterfalls in the rainy season rain, the waterfalls connect sometimes because of strong to a massive waterfall). Ban Gioc is actually the Vietnamese name, known in China as the cases Detian falls. The cases are little more than 200 meters wide and drops more than 70 meters with 3 different levels (the highest decrease is about 30 meters)
For more information visit Wikipedia - Ban Gioc- Detian Falls

Enlarge map Ban Gioc Falls

Next Photo of Arno Kohlem

 Ban Gioc Falls

Ban Gioc Falls

Next Photo by Elias Jerusalem (500px, website)

Ban Gioc Falls

Ban Gioc Falls

Next Photo of Đình Lê Quang ( flickr)

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 Ban Gioc Falls

Ban Gioc Falls

Monday, January 25, 2016

Mount Hua (Hua Shan or in Chinese) is located in Shaanxi Province, not far from the city Huayin, China.
Mt. Hua AKA West Great Mountain is one of China's Five Great Mountains and is a historical place of religious significance


For more Information visit Wikipedia Mount Hua

Next 2 photos of the talented Dave Morrow, visit his web site

 Mt. Hua, China

Mt. Hua, China

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 Mt. Hua, China

Mt. Hua, China

Next photo Ondřej Žváček

 Mount Hua / Hua Shan

Mount Hua / Hua Shan

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Crescent Lake, Dunhuang, China.
Yueyaquan is a crescent-shaped lake is located 6 km south of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China.
According to measurements made in 1990 the average depth of the lake is equal to 1 meter (in 1960 it was around 4-5 meters). In 2006, the local government started to fill the lake and to restore its depth; its depth and size were a year since growing
The Crescent Lake is very popular with tourists

Next photo of Richard Towell

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Crescent Lake

Crescent Lake

Next photo of JadeYC08 - (visit flickr)

Crescent Lake

Crescent Lake

Photo by Sigismund von Dobschütz

 Crescent Lake

Crescent Lake

Did you take amazing photos of Crescent Lake? send them to great places and it is very likely that we publish'em  :)

Friday, January 15, 2016

Jade Screen Pavilion is located in Huangshan mountain (Yellow Mountain) area - East China ..
Jade Screen Hotel is the main building, and there is a food / drink square next to the hotel
Jade Pavilion screen offers a wide sweeping view of the entire mountain. the rock formations are very strange and green pine everywhere the atmosphere decoration
For more information about the aera visit Wikipedia -. Huangshan

Enlarge map

Next 2 Photo of Jason Freeman www.GoWildImages.com

 Jade Screen Pavilion China

Jade Screen Pavilion China

 Jade screen China Pavilion

Jade Screen Pavilion China

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Blue Moon Valley is located near Lijiang, in Yunnan Province, China.

Blue Moon Valley gets the water from the melting snow, which runs from the mountains, forming four lakes and several waterfalls.
The head of the valley is one of the main attractions and has natural white water terraces. the water often seem amazingly turquoise

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Next 4 Photos collected by stevie0020 (visit flickr)

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Blue Moon Valley, Whitewater terraces

Blue Moon Valley, Whitewater terraces

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Blue Moon Valley, Whitewater terraces

Blue Moon Valley, Whitewater terraces

 Blue Moon Valley, China

Blue Moon Valley, China

Blue Moon Valley, China

Blue Moon Valley, China