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Kanas Lake
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The Kanas is a magical and appealing place for all ages. Maybe it
is an
enchanting Mongolian name which means "a lake in a gorge".
Kanas Lake's altitude is 1374
meters, the length of north-south is 24km,the average width is 1.9
km, the biggest depth is 188.5 meters, the area is 45.73 sq
km .There are larches, red pines, spruces, firs, birch, etc. |
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１、Kanas Continental Villas
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The Kanas Continental Villas
of Xinjiang Kanas International Travel Service is located the
lakeside. |
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groggeries, ballrooms hall and marketplaces, etc. |
２、Crouching Dragon Bay
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The Crouching Dragon Bay,
on the way coming close to the Kanas Lake, along the river the
peaks stand erect, forest become lush and dense. canyons become
deep and rivers become swift. After crossing a wooden bridge, one
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betula pendula, whose trunks are tall
and straight, barks are white, branches are drooping gracefully,
with
clear-cut aspect, being known as A Maid in Forest. After the birch
forest, the valley suddenly become broad, wjth the Crouching
Dragon
Bay ahead, shaping like a cauldron, called Cauldron-bottom Lake by
the local people. Some tourists, on getting here, will think it is
the Kanas Lake. However,they wont know the truth until lingering on
with no thought of leaving for half a day and then, they simply call
it Little Kanas Lake. The Crouching Dragon Bay has a water area of
about 90,000 sq meters. The Kanas River slowly flows by, its color
is pure blue and clean and soft waves are floating, with the
scenery of rivers and mountains behind being reflected on the
water. The ait in the bay looks like a giant crouching bay. It is
said that long, long ago, a giant dragon once played with water by
mounting the clouds and riding the mist. All of sudden, the weather
changed drastically, the ice sealed and snow froze in a moment,
for
which the giant dragon was frozen stiff here, thus being named the
Crouching Dragon Bay. Here is an ideal place for cultivation of
fish with its long bay and slow flow, in which someone once caught
a 2 meter-long Big Red Fish. |
３、Moon Bay
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Taking a
trip northward 1 kilometer from the Crouching Dragon Bay, one can
overlook the Moon Bay on the
mountain-encircling road. The bay is a section of Z-shape river
course, whose serene, blackish-green water looks like a “Crescent”.
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At
sight of this scene, one can feel the magical creation of great
nature featured by an evening crescent compared to faint and quiet
dreamland.
In the crescent like
section sits a foot-shape isle, which is said to be a foot-print
left by the goddess of the moon, having secretly eaten the glossy ganoderma
while flying back to the moon in a hurry. The indigenes
also call it "Crescent Lake" or
"Foot-bottom Lake".
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４、Tuwa Kampong
| The Tuwa people build their
houses with pine wood, whose four walls are stacked up with logs,
with ceiling floor and slant pointed roof suitable for frequent
rain and snow arrounding in mountainous area. When
flowers bloom in warm spring, they drive their cattle and sheep
to the summer pasture on the top of a mountain. In late autumn,
they drive their stocks down the hills and live in the log
cabins for a long winter. |
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| They live mainly
on dairy products, meat and flour, such as: beef, sheep, milk,
cheese, dried yogurt, sour milk, butter, milky tea and milky wine
etc. |
Kanas
is miraculous, beyond description only via net pages.
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