Anshun and the cataracts Huangguoshu
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The most trite way served by frequent buses, is the one that goes to the cataracts of Huangguoshu, the biggest of China. It is convenient to direct towards there calmly since the way for him is full of interesting villages of the minority Buyi, and although the most famous are beyond the cataracts, the traveler who moves without hurry will find interesting human situations. Also, to 20 kilometers of Anshun there is Zhenning, head of a district populated by the Miao and the Buyi, with a temple in the highest point of the city that presents a surprising sight.
The cataracts Huangguoshu, with his 67 meters high and 84 meters long there are the biggest cataracts of China. His sight is magnificent, especially in summer. In autumn and winter less water is spilled and they lose in spectacular nature. What more I surprise of these cataracts is that they arise almost how for surprise. The traveler comes to the village of equal name crossing a flatness splashed with the calm villages with the Buyi without nothing making to presage that the creek that runs along with the last stretch of the highway suddenly falls down in an enormous ravine.
Although the cataracts define completely the Huangguoshu personality, from his main street, to scarcely a few meters of the same ones, it is possible to suspect nothing. There are several ways of enjoying this spectacle. To obtain a finished observation of the same ones the traveler will not have any more remedy to visit the park constructed about them. From there not only the best sight of the waterfall is had, but it is possible to go down to the riverbed, and to observe his fall from the shore. A more relaxed alternative is constituted by the numerous restaurants opened in the narrow earth zone placed between the highway and the river. All of them have constructed small ideal patios for the observation of the cataracts in which for the price of the entry to the park it will be possible to enjoy a local meal or a refreshment.
The Huangguoshu attractions do not finish with the cataracts. The village inhabited by persons of the minority Buyi, is provided with a good number of typical constructions of stone of this ethnic group that he is worth exploring with a little of calmness. The alleys that get lost towards the interior, from the highway, provide a good opportunity to know the life of this interesting minority. Big part of the population has stopped dressing of the traditional form, but some women still walk along the streets with his spectacular traditional hairdos.
In the proper highway, an imposing church of stone, he reminds to us the missionary activity realized in this area before the Communist Revolution. The lover of the calm places, can make use of the tourist infrastructure created to the claim of the cataracts, since in the outskirts of the village there exist several hotels surrounded by enormous parks, which can turn into the starting point to explore other villages of the Buyi placed in the outskirts, neither in that nor the arrival of the tourism nor the modernization it has managed to finish with his form of traditional life.
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