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Come, listen to the Singing Sand!
By Ma Zhiping (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-08-07 10:58
Erdos Singing Sand is greeting this year's peak season as tourists
flowing over from home and abroad.
Located in the Kabuqi Desert at the southern tip of the Dalate Plain in
Erdos, Inner Mongolia, the Singing Sand was given the name because the
sand can sing different tunes, such as the singing of an folk song by a
young lady, the galloping of horses or the sound of thunders.
The Singing Sand in Erdos is the largest of its kind in China and rare in
the world. It was established as a tourist spot in 1984, a national
tourist spot in 1991 and a AAAA tourist spot , the top ranking honor
given to tourist spots by the National Tourism Bureau in 2002.
The Singing Sand is attracting more and more tourists as it becomes a
popular place for outdoor scenes for a number of Chinese and foreign
movies.
Last year, a total of more than 200,000 tourists visited the rare place
and experience the excitement of sliding over the sand and listening to
its magic tunes.
The Singing Sand is 110 metres high, 400 meters wide with an incline of
45 degrees . The terrains present a crescent moon , forming a huge echo
wall of the sand hill. The high dunes, one after another, stretch far off
into the sky.
The local government plans to further update tourist facilities to
greeting the increasing number of visitors coming to this wonderland.
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