'Oh, I have never seen such fairy land under the heaven.' it is very familiar to hear such sentence illustrate the breathtaking beauty of Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area. However, to be a smarter Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, have you explored its essence treasures? Now, I will lead you walk into them.

Heaven-made Sparkling Lake
The Sparkling Lake in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area is also called the Sparkling Pool with measuring about 2,187 meters high and 9 meters in deep. It is just located between the Two Dragon Lake and the Wolong Sea. The big feature of this lake is that the water is always presenting mirror appearance. Surrounded by dense trees and plans, this lake showed more vigorous and sparkling. For the fresh visitors coming here, they will have common feeling that this lake is just like a crystal pearl dropping in the green colors. What the most dazzling moment will be in the morning when the mist faded, the surface of this lake will be decorated with sparkling stars. It seemed that this lake is firing and dancing. So, it got the name of Sparkling Lake. During summer, this lake will be dotted by wide-diversity flowers. Adding the morning dewdrops, it is just like the heaven-made spot. If you came here, you should have a detail appreciation to the Sparkling Acacia Waterfall. Although it is the smallest waterfall in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, it will arouse typical poem feeling dancing in the green areas.

Mysterious Potted Beach
Another treasure in Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area will be the Potted Beach. Just hearing the name, there will be a charming pictures appearing in your mind. It is the first potted beach after entering the Jiuzhaizhou Scenic Area. The whole scenery here is just like a grand bonsai full of life and strength. Its special formation is root in the calcification. So, the calcification is the important base in the natural scenic spots of this valley. Potted Beach formed soft formation with various trees and plants without any man-made decoration. Combined with the nature and environment, they harmoniously formed the typical charming scenery. Someone said that this beach is created by the heaven. Each scenic spot inside perfectly showed their vigorous and lifelike features. Just for the advanced location, just entering into this valley, tourists could find vivid figure.

For the breathtaking sceneries of Jiuzhaigou, these two spots could be regarded as the big decoration in its natural features!

Hailed as one of the three primitive sites in Tibet, Karuo Ruins are well worth exploring for those history buffs who are interested in Tibetan history.

Overview about Karuo Ruins
Karuo Ruin Site is located in the Changdu County southwest of the Tibet autonomous region. As a late Neolithic cultural site, the ruins date back to 4000 to 5000 years ago. Karuo Ruins were discovered in 1978, the first site discovered in Tibet area including more than 20 units of cultural relics found in the Neolithic site, covering a total area of about 10000 square meters. It is one of the three major cultural sites of the original archaeological circles in Tibet. The ruin site area is well preserved to this day, rich in relics. Unearthed items include pottery, stone, bone - experts also found a large number of carbonized corn and animal bones. 12 kilometers south of Changdu, in the Lancang River, Karuo ruin site sits on the terrace, 3100 meters above sea level. Karuo site boasts as the highest Neolithic site across China. The two excavation sites house 28, 7968 pieces of stone tools, bone tools 366, pottery more than 2 pieces, 50 pieces of ornaments, corn, animal bones, etc.

Archaeological value of the Relics
Karuo Ruin Site is a national key cultural relics protection unit, sitting near the upper reaches of the Lancang river as Chinese Neolithic site. The site is divided into early and late two sections, housing 28 house foundations. Round bottom housing, after the restoration, it is a conical shack architecture built with interior column and the surrounding inclined column. Semi underground style houses are built with four masonry walls, and in the upper floor built with another building, showing local characteristics and construction technology of the time. Pottery to decorative geometric patterns carved marks the most characteristic of architectural art back in the day. Experts also found plenty of crop millets and livestock remains. At the time, the primitive Tibetan people made living by regular hunting. In the unearthed sites more than 20 houses have been found, there are also many ancient people used stone tools and cereals, animal bones, which have important value on the study of the early history of Tibet. Karuo ruins were discovered in 1977. In the summer of 1978, the site was excavated with exposed area covers 230 square meters. In 1979, the site conducted second excavations, exposed area of 1570 square meters.

Overall, Karuo Site is not to be missed while visiting Tibet!

Tibet is filled with incredible landscapes which can be found all over the magnificent plateau. As a must-visit destination in Tibet, Yarlung Zangbo River makes for a perfect destination for adventure and exploration.

Overview of Yarlung Zangbo River
Yarlung Zangbo River is the longest Chinese plateau river, located in the Tibet autonomous region, hailed as the highest river in the world. Flowing in the southwest Tibet, north of Himalaya Range, Yarlung Zangbo River comes from Jie Ma Yangzong glacier, upstream called Maquan River, from west to east across the southern part of Tibet, around the eastern tip of Himalaya mountains Namjagbarwa turning south, through Pasighat flowing out of China. Rich in water reserves, in China Yarlung Zangbo River is second only to the Yangtze River in terms of water volume. The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is the first Grand Canyon in the world and according to Chinese world record association it is also the deepest and longest canyon in the world. According to the natural conditions, the Jianggan Valley morphology and flow changes, the main tributary can be divided into the Heyuan region, the upstream, midstream and downstream. From the end of Jie Ma Yangzong glacier to Li Zi is the upstream, the river is 268 kilometers long, covering 26570 square kilometers. The continuous snow capped mountains are laid on a stretch as far as eye can see with a green carpet of grass dotting in the middle of the land. The upper Maquan River Valley is an animal park, home to Tibetan antelope, blue sheep, wild yak, bears, wolves, foxes, rats, rabbits and other animals.

Cultural Delight near the River
Yarlung Zangbo River is birthplace of the ancient culture which has a long history of the river basin of Linzhi County, as the representative of the Neolithic culture. In Linzhi County and Medog County there were a large number of relics unearthed to prove the fact. The late Neolithic age, many tribes set root in Tibet. The Yarlung Zangbo River is not only the cradle of the birth and development of Tibet civilization, but also the cultural exchange between Han and Tibetan people. Tibetan Buddhist worship is very common and keen near the river. Where there are Buddhism believers, there will be a temple. The Yarlung Zangbo River Basin has many temples, whether in the canyon or deep mountains, temple bells could be heard. And the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin is beautiful, it feeds on both sides of fertile land, it is the cradle of culture of the Tibetan people.

Overall, Yarlung Zangbo River is worth exploring while visiting Tibet!