Visit these UNESCO World Heritage Sites in China (part 2)

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Visit these UNESCO World Heritage Sites in China (part 2)
As a country with a rich culture and long history, it's no surprise that China does own a lot of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Follow this article to find out what they are.

 
  • Leshan Giant Buddha

    Leshan Giant BuddhaLeshan Giant Buddha

    The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-metre tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803, depicting Maitreya. The stone sculpture faces Mount Emei, with the rivers flowing below its feet. It is the largest and tallest stone Buddha statue in the world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world. The Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

  • The Stone Forest

    The Stone ForestThe Stone Forest

    The Stone Forest or Shilin is a notable set of limestone formations about 500 km2 located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province. The tall rocks seem to arise from the ground in a manner somewhat reminiscent of stalagmites, or with many looking like petrified trees, thereby creating the illusion of a forest made of stone. Since 2007, two parts of the site, the Naigu Stone Forest and Suogeyi Village, have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites as part of the South China Karst.

  • Old Town of Lijiang

    Old Town of LijiangOld Town of Lijiang

    Dayan, commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang is the historical center of Lijiang City, in Yunnan, China. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The town has a history going back more than 1,000 years and was once a confluence for trade along the "Old Tea Horse Caravan Trail". The Dayan Old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges, a system fast becoming but a memory as the underground water table drops, probably due to over-building in the suburban areas.

  • Kaiping Diaolou

    Kaiping Diaolou Kaiping Diaolou

    Diaolou formerly romanized as Clock Towers, are fortified multi-storey watchtowers in village countryside, generally made of reinforced concrete. These towers are located mainly in the Kaiping county of Jiangmen prefecture in Guangdong province. In 2007, UNESCO designated the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages a World Heritage Site, which covers four separate Kaiping village areas: Sanmenli, Zilicun, Jinjiangli, and Majianglong village cluster

  • Ming Dynasty Imperial Tombs

    Ming Dynasty Imperial Tombs Ming Dynasty Imperial Tombs

    The Ming tombs are a collection of mausoleums built by the emperors of the Ming dynasty of China. The first Ming emperor's tomb is located near his capital Nanjing. However, the majority of the Ming tombs are located in a cluster near Beijing and collectively known as the Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty.

  • Dujiangyan

    DujiangyanDujiangyan

    The Dujiangyan is an ancient irrigation system in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan. The system's infrastructure develops on the Min River, the longest tributary of the Yangtze. The water management scheme is still in use today to irrigate over 5,300 square kilometres of land in the region. The Dujiangyan, the Zhengguo Canal in Shaanxi and the Lingqu Canal in Guangxi are collectively known as the "three great hydraulic engineering projects of the Qin."

  • Peking Man Site (Zhoukoudian)

    Peking Man Site (Zhoukoudian)Peking Man Site (Zhoukoudian)

    Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (species of archaic humans that lived throughout most of the Pleistocene geological epoch), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the gigantic hyena "Pachycrocuta brevirostris".

Source: wikipedia

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