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Kanas Lake
| 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 Village
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The Kanas Continental Villas
of Xinjiang Western International Travel Service is located the
lakeside. |
| There are nice dining-rooms,
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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| see a stretch of pure 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
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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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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 dragon 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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