The cataracts Huangguoshu
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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. To come to them it usually set off from Anshun, one of the principal cities of the Province of Guizhou.
The most surprising of these cataracts is that they arise almost how for surprise. The traveler comes to the village of equal name crossing a flatness in which occasionally there appear the impressive villages of the minority Buyi. Nothing makes 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 the exit of the village. 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 from the shore the force of the waters.
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.
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