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P1：竹海?The Sea of Bamboos

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=1

Bamboo has been cultivated and utilized in China for thousands of years at least. And it is possibly one of the Chinese people most cherished plants. There is a bamboo forest in Sichuan Province in Southwest China. Hundreds of millions of bamboos cover 27 mountains and more than 500 peaks.

The bamboo sea in Southern Sichuan is the largest natural bamboo forest in the world. It is said there are 428 kinds of bamboos here.

Among them, the Nan bamboo or phyllostachys pubescens grows the fastest. They cover more than 47,000 square kilometers of the mountain side. And they are able to grow from shoots to mature bamboo in just 40 days and grow into woods within four years. Bamboo is the most rare renewable resource in the mountainous areas. They are surrounded by cloud all year round. In summer you can see green everywhere, and in winter everything turns white.

There is bamboo scenery, mountains and rivers, lakes, ancient temples, as well as countless streams overflowing from this bamboo sea. These streams tumble from cliff edges, creating a magnificent scene. Deep in the bamboo forest, in the coves surrounded by mountains, there is a crystal-clear lake called the "Sea Within the Sea." Only by taking a bamboo raft and floating in the waves, then you perhaps truly appreciate this wonderful green world.

P2：熊貓?Tree Climbing Lesson

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=2

The Giant Panda.?

You might think it’s still an endangered species. But the good news is populations are on the rise, due to enormous efforts by Chinese conservation programs, using new breeding technology. By actively guiding adult pandas to mate, more and more panda babies are being born.?

But today there is an even bigger challenge. Some of the panda cubs from these breeding programs are being reintroduced to the wild, their native home. The first thing they have to learn is how to climb trees.

A panda cub is having a lesson in the forest. He is already one and a half years old. That's his mother next to him, a wild giant panda. Mother and son are taken to a safe wild habitat that are set free to make their own way.

The ability of young cubs to survive in the wild is mainly taught by their mothers. The most important skill is to climb trees. Because in this forest, they may encounter enemies, such as other bears.?

The little panda seems to have no interest in practicing this new skill. But mother is strict. She won't allow her son to be distracted. This is about life and death.

Finally our little panda climbs up to the top of a tree. See how sharp his claws are, and the strength in his limbs. The most important thing he has acquired his great courage, and natural instinct he inherits from his wild panda mother.?

Now it's time to rest after a tiring day. Who's a big strong boy then?

P3：西湖?West Lake

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=3

There are no less than 30 lakes named “West Lake” in China. But the West Lake in Hangzhou is the best known of them all.?

It is located in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhengjiang Province on the southeastern coast. And the city is known as the paradise of the world in China.

Thousands of years ago, the West Lake was connected to the sea. The Qiantang River not far away from the West Lake, enters the sea in the eastern part of the area. Sediment deposited by the river eventually blocked the connection between the West Lake and the sea, making it an inland water feature.

Since the 9th century A.D., the beautiful scenery of the West Lake in all seasons has appeared time and again in poems, stories and legends. It's roughly estimated there are about 630 legends of the West Lake alone.

In 2011, West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou was included on the World Heritage List.?

It is visited by an endless stream of international tourists. Perhaps some of them will add their own stories to West Lake’s wealth of literature.

P4：多彩之湖?Lakes with Amazing Colours

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=4

Hidden deep in the mountains of western China's Sichuan province, there is a primitive and dreamy valley called Jiuzhaigou.

It has preserved one of the most stunning view of nature that it could be called China's Garden of Eden. Its signature landscape is the crystal lakes with turquoise and many other colors of white, blue, green, or emerald.?

The secrets of coloring the lake is the spirogyra, charophyte, and other kinds of ferns that grow in the water. They contain chlorophyll, which helps create various colors. These colors vary according to the season, light and the viewing angle.?

There are 108 Lakes like this dotted around the three major valleys in Jiuzhaigou. Each of these valleys has an altitude higher than 2000 meters and altogether the valleys are 49 kilometers long.?

Besides these magical lakes, Jiuzhaigou also has China's widest waterfall, Nuorilang Waterfall, with a width of 270 meters. If you visit Jiuzhaigou during the right time, you may even experience the rotation of four seasons in one day. From the colorful scene to the white appearance, Jiuzhaigou could do it in very short time.?

It is perhaps the ultimate fairy land in China.

P5：錢塘江大潮?The Tidal Bore of Qiantang River

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=5

The Qiantang River is located in Zhejiang on the southeastern coast of China and flows into the East China Sea. Every year of the eighteenth day of the eighth lunar month, people gather along its banks expectantly, eager for the arrival of the tide.

The waters of Hangzhou Bay and the Qiantang River meet on the horizon, forming a thin white line.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of second the fusion of ocean and river dramatically tumbled back towards the land. The seawall contains the force of 7 tons per square meter.?

The waves can reach a maximum of 9 meters, about three stories high and even taller than four of China's famous basketball player, Yao Ming.

The huge tides and waves do little to deter the bold. People jumped into the powerful waves as early as the Southern Song Dynasty of China, more than 800 years ago. The people of the time called them the Tide Players. It looks so much like today's surfing, minus the surf board.

Today, the Qiantang River attracts thousands of people from far and wide for the annual tidal surfing competition.

P6：不凍河?The Unfrozen River

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=6

In winter, Arxan, a city in northern China becomes a world of ice. Its rivers become frozen. All except one.

Upstream of the Khalkhyn Gol River, there is a stretch around 20 kilometers long. Even in winter, when the air temperature typically drops to minus 40 to 30 degrees Celsius, this section remains ice free. People call it The Unfrozen River.?

Its secret lies deep beneath the river bed, where the river passes over an area of geothermal activity near Arxan. The heat from below, raises the temperature allowing the river water to stay above freezing point. And so it remains ice free.

During the harsh winter, it even becomes a spa for animals. A group of cattle are strolling along the river bank. They can't wait to wade through the water.

Look closely and you'll see steam rising from the surface of the river.?

Such a nice warm bath! Let's leave the cattle to enjoy it!

P7：秘境喀納斯湖?Mysterious Kanas Lake

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=7

In China's northwestern Xinjiang, there are many different landscapes and remarkable views. Deep in its northern dense forest, there is an amazingly beautiful lake. The color of the lake changes with the seasons, light, and temperature difference between morning and evening.

The Kanas Lake, the second-largest deep water lake in China, has a water depth of 190 meters. Perhaps it's the fear of what lies below the surface that has stirred up legends of a lake monster. Since the late 1980s, there have been numerous sightings of the creature in the lake.

It is said that horses drinking by the lake were once dragged into the water by the monster. Many tourists come all the way to the Kanas Lake, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mysterious marine creature.?

Most scientists believe the so-called water monster is a Hucho Bleecker living deep below the surface. Some of these freshwater salmon can grow up to nearly 2 metres long. They can be ferocious and secretive, but occasionally emerge from the water and make waves.

The warm and humid Atlantic air currents travel over 6,900 kilometers of land into the Altay Mountains, and bring more than 600 millimeters of precipitation every year, nurturing the largest Siberian taiga forest in China.?

Taiga forests have a simple structure, and are mostly composed of tall and straight fir and pine trees. They grow and multiply by the Kanas Lake, carrying their life on from generation to generation.

P8：吐泡泡的娃娃魚?The Bubbling Chinese Giant Salamander

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=8

In the east of China, near the Yellow Sea in Jangsu, there's a magical island situated a little way off the provinces 765 kilometers of coastline.

Covering an area of less than 0.2 squarekilometers, Qinshan Island is 1,000 meters long from east to west, and 200 meters in width. From the air, the island looks for all the world like a giant Chinese salamander, with a huge bulbous head. Qinshan Island is about 15 kilometers of the coast, and is one of the few coastal islands in Jiangsu Province.?

In the past, the island has been ten times its size today. However, thousands of years of erosion have seen the rock consumed by the sea little by little, eventually spitting out this small fish like Island. The long tail of this "fish" appears and disappears at regular intervals with the rise and fall of the tides. It is 2.6 kilometers long and has existed for at least 2,000 years.?

The Divine Path of Qinshan Island was formed by the action of the tides against this gravel island. The shores were gradually worn away and eventually collapsed. The debris drifted in the currents round to the south side of the island and was gradually deposited under the waterline for a stretch of over 10 kilometers. The rise and fall of the sea level over time has helped form a mound composed of gravel and debris. This mound is 2.6 kilometers long and extends from the island towards the land.?

Mounds like this can be seen all along the east coast of China. However it is very rare for a small island with an area of less than 0.2 square kilometres to have such a feature several times longer and wider than the island itself. I t is known as the longest natural avenue at sea in China.

As the tide retreats, the Divine Path reappears in the sea. Those who tread this path seem to be walking on an infinity of water.

P9：東方阿爾卑斯?Four Sisters Await for Adventurers

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=9

Mount Siguniang or Mount Four Sisters is located in southwestern China's Sichuan province. The mountain gets its name from its four peaks adjacent to each other.

Local legend says that the mountain god's four beautiful daughters defeated the devil and turned into four snow mountains to guard the local people. The snowy mountains offer one of the toughest challenges for those who would like to conquer them.

Out of the four sisters, the youngest one -- the Yaomei Peak is the highest and the steepest of them all, with the altitude of 6250 meters.?

Only the bravest climbers around the world dare to take the challenge. There are glaciers hanging on the southern slope and extending to the foot of the mountain. The western and the northern slope are formed by the daunting steep rocks.?

So far, the summit record for the Yaomei Peak is only 11 times. The Japanese and the American made it twice each. the British, the French and the Russian teams made it once each, and the Chinese team reached the top for 4 times.

Besides the four remarkable peaks, Mount Siguniang also has lots of other mountains and valleys that are ready for exploration. The 5484-meters high Camel Peak is formed by two connected peaks. Between them there is a glacial plain. But right behind these glaciers, is a vertical cliff.?

And we have the Pomiu Peak that looks like a pyramid. Five Colours Mountain with an altitude of 5500 meters, and the Hunter Mountain with an altitude of 5182 meters.

Thanks for its breath-taking and wide landscape, Mount Siguniang is also known as “The Oriental Alps”.?

For the bravest adventurers worldwide, the Four Sisters will continue to lure them and wait for the next one to stand on top of them.

P10：安集海大峽谷?Anjihai Grand Canyon

視頻鏈接：https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ez4y1C773?p=10

In Xinjiang, China, the beautiful scenery can often take miraculous forms.

Anjihai Town has become famous the world over due to one canyon in particular.

The river, which originates in the Tianshan Mountains, rushes down the steep slopes, carving its way through escarpment formed over millennia.

The canyon is about 30 kilometers in length, with the valley floor being 3 to 4 hundred meters at its widest, while the narrowest part is only 2 or 3 meters.?

From above, Anjihai Grand Canyon is rich in colors. On either side of the canyon, red sandstone and grey mud stone alternate to create an astonishing landscape.

The colors are formed as the river erodes and dissolves the sandstone and mudstone, drawing abstract pictures on the land.?

It is one of the most beautiful and yet virtually unknown canyons in Xinjiang.

Because it is so hidden and the land on the either side of the canyon are the same height, people sometimes come across it without warning.

If they don't stop in time, then they could easily plunge off the cliff.

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