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5 Yuzhizhou Island
Nicknamed "the Chinese Maldives", Yuzhizhou Island in Hainan has another romantic title, "Island for Lovers". Between the beach and bamboo forest stand a bunch of cottages for lovers built out of bamboo and leaves.



Yuzhizhou Island is a small island covering just 1.48 square kilometers. It's the perfect place for diving. Seawater around the island is totally pollution free and boasts a colorful collection of tropical fishes, sea urchins and coral reefs.Most people who holiday at Sanya also go to Yuzhizhou Island for diving.

Apart from the fresh seafood, Yuzhizhou Island features unique Lingzhi crab, which eats Lingzhi, a tonic plant often used in traditional Chinese medicine on the island. Different from ordinary crabs, the Lingzhi crab is completely black. It tastes a bit bitter you first eat it, but its fresh taste comes out after a few minutes.

How to get there: Get to Haikou and ride a long-distance bus to reach Sanya. There are regular buses and high-speed jet boats between Sanya and Yuzhizhou Island.

6 Bamei

A well-preserved Zhuang minority ethnic group village, Bamei Village is located 450 kilometers away from Kunming Municipality, in Yunnan Province. This village has no electricity or roads connecting it to the outside. People here till the fields with wooden ploughs, irrigate the land with old wooden water wheels and make clothes with hand-spun cloth. They use marsh gas to light and burn wood to cook. Given the absence of industrial pollution, air here is very fresh and the views are spectacular.

Here tourists can also enjoy some unique Zhuang minority ethnic festivals, such as paying tribute to ancestors, playing grass balls, singing girls and boys matching songs.

How to get there: Go to Kunming, Municipal City of Yunnan Province. Head to Qiubei and pass Guangnan to reach Fali. Once you get there, get out of your car and walk along the land boundary between two pieces of land for several hundred of meters to reach the entrance of Bamei Village.

7 Hailuogou Valley

This place is mostly covered in ice and snow. Hailuogou Valley is full of contradictions. On one side there is a large glacier closest to an urban area and has the lowest altitude. Hailuogou Valley has the largest icy waterfall in China, 10 times larger than Huangguoshu Waterfall. A dozen hot springs can also be found in the valley. The temperatures of the springs range from 40 degrees Celsius to 80 degrees Celsius. Tourists can soak in the hot springs while watching the snowflakes fall.

How to get there: Get to Chengdu City and take the newly built Chengya Highway, then head through Erlangshan Mountain tunnel, and Daduhe Great Bridge to reach Hailuogou Valley. The whole journey is 282 kilometers long and takes five hours.

8 Luoping



At the source of the Pearl River, there is a land of wonder and beauty: Luoping. The place boasts the largest cole flower garden in the world. The brilliant yellow carpet of cole flowers are grown among the rolling hills, a natural landform in the region. Jinjifeng or Golden Rooster Hill and Niujie, “Bull Street” are the two best spots to take photos of cole flowers. At Jinjifeng there is an endless view of the flora in the fields.. And at Niujie, cole flowers mingle with the winter wheat and other vegetables creating a different natural picture.

Apart from cole flowers, there are two other spots are worth exploring. Jiulong or “Nine Dragons” Waterfall consists of 10 waterfalls. The view of all the waterfalls is grand. Duoyihe is more quiet, lined by colorful flowers.

How to get there: Take a train from Guangzhou to Kunming and get off at Luoping railway station. Then take a three-wheeled vehicle to get to Luoping County. There are also special trains connecting Kunming to Luoping and the trip takes about four hours.

9 Ranwuhu Lake

Ranwuhu Lake is a combination of the Swiss Alps and China's Jiuzhaigou, a scenic spot in Sichuan Province, famous for its picturesque waters and mountains. At Ranwuhu Lake, there are magnificent snow-capped mountains, glaciers, a blue lake, green meadows, floating clouds and dense woods, giving visitors tourists the feeling of being in a legendary place. The mountain range lines both banks of Ranwuhu Lake. And the lake's water varies with the seasons reflecting the vegetation growing along the banks.

How to get there: Ranwuhu Lake is located east of Tibet. Drive east along National Way 318, past Basu Baima Township to reach Ranwu Village.(From Chinadaily)

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