The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-metre (233 ft) tall stone statue, built during the Tang Dynasty. It is carved out of a cliff face that lies at the confluence of the Minjiang, Dadu and Qingyi rivers in the southern part of Sichuan province in China, near the city of Leshan. The stone sculpture faces Mount Emei, with the rivers flowing below his feet. It is the largest stone Buddha in the world and it is by far the tallest pre-modern statue in the world.

The Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

Dongchuan Red Land is located in the town of Xintian, 40km southwest of Kunming City, near the milepost named “Flower Stone”. The area covering over hundreds of square meters is the most concentrated, typical and unique red land on the Yunnan red land tableland. Besides the red land in Rio de Janeiro, the spectacular red land of Dongchuan is healed the most magnificent red land in the world. Comparing to red land in Brazil, the scenery here is even more beautiful.

Heading to the north from Kunming, you’ll be always on rugged winding roads. Overlooked from mountains, white plain formed by debris flows will be in your visual field. Dongchuan has been healed “the museum of debris flows”. You can never imagine such amazing scenery without having been to Dongchuan.

Dongchuan Red Land

Because of the humid and worm climate, the iron elements in the soil have been depositing year by year after oxidation, and then the glaring color is formed after centuries. Dongchuan has also been called “natural copper capital” since the ancient time. Glaring red land, green vegetable plot, unique shape and beautiful figure are set off by the blue sky, white cloud and capricious ligh, which is the whole dream-like picture is just like the colorful paintings, making you feel dizzy.

Reputedly, the discovery of Dongchuan Red Land should be owed to a photographer. He saw the spectacular gorgeous red land when he was passing by plane. Then he went to Dongchuan lots of times to search the red land area. Finally, the amazing land was found by him. As soon as his photos were seen by people, countless tourists went there and worked up much enthusiasm and passion of the land.

Every attraction here has its own specialty in different seasons and time. You could choose the place and time according to your own fancy. You could get good photos at every scenic here. Besides，according to the natives, the red land looks bright-colored and gorgeous after rain. I also found it is a little dim and dull in the morning and much better in the evening. In a word, the beautiful scenery is far beyond description of words. Dongchuan Red Land was selected as the Top Undiscovered China Attractions

Located in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Yuanyang terrace is a natural masterpiece, plowed by generations of the Hani ethnic people. The magnificent terrace, which is renowned for its farming techniques utilizing different parts of the mountain, spreads extensively at the south bank of the Red River, or the Honghe. The 11,000 hectares of terraces in Yuanyang County is the core of the Red River Hani Terrace

Shibaoshan Mountain (stone treasure mountain)  is 25Km from Jianchuan county, Dali,  because of the red sandy rock in the mountain looks like a bell, elephent & lion, hence the name. the mountain is 25 squre kilometers.  the highest altitude in shibaoshan mountain is 3038m.

The mountain is home of hundreds of  wild monkey , it is famous for Luxuriant forests, unique rock landscape and misterious buddhist temples, especially famous for the  grottoes and cliff statues which was carved in Tang dynasty (618AD—907AD),  the grotto enjoys reputation as the "southwest of dunhuang", (Dunhuang is  famous for grottos, it is on the route of silk road) .  It has been one of  the national key cultural relics protection unit since 4th, April, 1964.

The grotto is an artistic treasure ,  together 17 fine carvings and  full-bodied grottoes ,the figure  is vivid and unique, they are mixture of Tibetan  buddhism and Bai ethnic style, it also has the influence of  indian art.

The mountain is not only a beautiful, historic site, but also rich in ethnic customs ,  the annual singing fesitval of bai people is held here.  the festival is  known as "Bai people valentine's day".  that's why Jianchuan county has a nick name:  "the City of Chinese folk songs" . during the festival,  Bai young men and women and  singers from Dali, Jianchuan,Lijiang and lanping are gathering on the mountain,  the festival is naturally become an important social situations for young people.    shibaoshan singing festival has been listed as state-level intangible cultural heritage by the state council in 2008.

The Date of annual singing festival is 27th of July to 29th of July in  chinese lunar calendar.  the festival of 2013 will be held from 2th of September to 4th of September in solar calendar, if you are planning your trip in september, Don't miss the festival.