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Top 10 disappearing landscapes in China I

Almost without noticing, once the most beautiful landscapes China travel deals in China is fading away silently. While they are strong enough to have survived thousands of years on earth, they are so fragile in the face of earthquakes, global warming, deforestation, overgrazing as well as natural erosions. Still, for travelers, it’s always better late than never to see these wonders while they are still there.

1. Ngawa ( Aba )

an autonomous prefecture in Sichuan, whose capital is Barkam town. It has an area of 83,201 km2.Ngawa is the site of the epicenter of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

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2. Taishun

Taishun is in Southern part of Zhejiang Province top 10 China tour packages, near the border with the Fujian province. Taishun County has more than 900 covered bridges, many of them hundreds of years old, as well as a covered bridge museum.

3. Luo Xia Gou Luo Xia Gouin Yunnan Province, 250km from Kunming City. The soil contains such components as oxidized Iron, after a long period of oxidation, gradually added and mixed in the soil that produced this extra-ordinary reddish brown soil. Every inch of land are cultivated and planted to the maximum by the inhabitants, consequently causing unwanted damage to the place... erosion. How long could this magnificent phenomenon exist? We do not know.

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4. Kanasi Lake

Kanasi Lake the breathtaking landscape located in Burerjin County of Aletai area in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Silk Road travel, It is a reservoir formed by violent movements of ancient glaciers, which is suffering from the severe global warming in recent years.

5. Nujiang River( "the angry river" )

Nujiang River, or the Salween river Yangtze River tour in Sichuan Province, is about 2,815 kilometres (1,749 mi) long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia. Now the "angry river” is under a dual-threat from both soil erosion and a long- conceived new dam project


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