Jiuxiang
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Jiuxiang Scenic Region is located in Jiuxiang Yi and Hui Autonomous Township of Yiliang County 90 km away from central Kunming
Kunming
' is the capital and largest city of Yunnan Province in Southwest China. It was known as Yunnan-Fou until the 1920s. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government...

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It is famous for its caves, mountains, rivers, deep valleys, minority customs and cultures.

Jiuxiang Scenic Region consists of 5 major scenic spots:
  • Diehong Bridge
  • Sanjiao Cave
  • Dasha Dam
  • Alulong
  • Mingyue Lake.


Diehong Bridge itself includes six major scenic spots: the Green Shady Valley, the White Elephant Cave, the Goddess Cave, the Lying Dragon Cave, the Bat Cave and the Tourist Cableway.

'The old man and the turtle'

In Chinese characters: (老人和乌龟/Lǎorén hé wūguī) A two rocks in JiuXiang which resemble an old man and a turtle as the name suggests.
Xu-sheng Zhang suggested it's similarity to Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

 and the turtle.

Souvenirs

It sells various souvenirs including: a photo from when you take a ride across the forest from above, there is also a pen holder made of glass with a statue of a male cow with the jiuxiang logo, and various other souvenirs.
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