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Going westwards about 15 km from the Deer City, the capital of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, along the Yunnan-Burma Road and then another 10 km along a newly-constructed road, you come to the Zixi Mount Forest Park. With the green pine forest stretch to horizon, and red azalea decorated in it, limpid streamlets running through the mountain, the park is a picturesque resort making tourists linger about.
It is a nature-protected zone here consisting semi-humid evergreen broadleaf forest and Yunnan Pine forest mainly. A forest coverage of 91% makes it the main water source for Chuxiong city. There are more than 202 species of higher plants in 65 genus and over 107 species of animals. Actually, it’s a world of plants and animals.
it was once a Buddhist halidom. Lots of temples have been built attracting the bonzes to come cultivating here. The Zixi Mountain also abounds with camellia. According to the research, there were camellia cultivated even 1000 years ago in the mountain. The history of the cultivation, the variety of the species and the enrichment of the color of the camellia here are the second to none in Yunnan. There’s a saying: Camellia in Yunnan exceeds all in China, and camellia in Zixi exceeds all in Yunnan. |
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