| ....................................................................................................................................................................................... Shaoputou ....................................................................................................................................................................................... |
| 150
km south for Yinchuan, on the southern rim of the Tenger Desert. The Tenger
Desert and the world famous project of harnessing desertification lies to
its north, and the vast Yellow River is to its south with a green oasis
appearing between them.
One of China's four humming sand dunes is situated at the top of Shapotou, where the slope rises to a height of 100 meters. When someone slides down the sand dune, he has the feeling as if he were descending from the sky. The peculiar geological structure of the place causes the sand to emit, when sliding down the slope, a resonant noise that reverberates like the tolling of a huge bell or the beating of a big drum. Limpid water flows gently in a knee-deep stream at he foot of the sand dune. South of the stream is a 30-mu orchid, which supplies tourists with such
fruit as jujubes, grapes, peaches, apples and pears. |
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