Luoping

Luoping county is 228 km to the east of Kunming. It is located on the border of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi Province.Luoping county has a population of 500,000 and covers an area of 3,006 square kilometers inhabited by many nationalities, including the Han, the Yi, the Buyi, and the Hui.

Luoping enjoys a mild and humid climate. It is dominated by karst features with small basins among independent green hills. It is a national base for raising bees and for processing honey oroducts. The rapeseed flowers covering an area of 250,000 mu and on February of March every years, thousands of Yellow Rapeseed Flowers are in full bloom, looking like and expanse of a golden sea.

There are many things to see when you travel Luoping. The major sights include the Jiulong waterfall (nine dragons), the Duoyi River and the Lubuge Gorges.

The Jiulong (nine dragon )waterfall is consist of 10-tier waterfalls which are compactly grouped in a valley with a length of 4 km and a depth of 200 m ,which forms a splendid view. The biggest waterfall is 110 m wide and 56 m high. Each of them represent a dragon, so we call it "nine dragon waterfalls ".

The Duoyi River lies 33 km southern of the county. Formed by the water from 5 underground springs, the river flows between its green banks for 12 km as if it were a tender Buyi girl. It is on the way to the Gorge of Lubuge, you will find different shape of ethnic architecture and landscape like Guilin along the road.

The Lubuge Gorge is located 40 km southern of the count. Lubuge is from Buyi language, meaning "a beautiful village". The major scenic spot is the Power Station Dam and its artificial lake. The dam is 103 m high and the reservoir has a storage capacity of 110,000,000 cubic m. The project was designed by 4 counties engineers (British, Italian, German & Chinese). The human power made the valley into a fascinating view with the 18 floors dam like a labyrinth.

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