Come, listen to the Singing Sand!
By Ma Zhiping (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-08-07 10:58
Erdos Singing Sand is greeting this year's peak season as tourists flowing
over from home and abroad.
Located in the Kabuqi Desert at the southern tip of the Dalate Plain in
Erdos, Inner Mongolia, the Singing Sand was given the name because the sand can
sing different tunes, such as the singing of an folk song by a young lady, the
galloping of horses or the sound of thunders.
The Singing Sand in Erdos is the largest of its kind in China and rare in the
world. It was established as a tourist spot in 1984, a national tourist spot in
1991 and a AAAA tourist spot , the top ranking honor given to tourist spots by
the National Tourism Bureau in 2002.
The Singing Sand is attracting more
and more tourists as it becomes a popular place for outdoor scenes for a number
of Chinese and foreign movies.
Last year, a total of more than 200,000 tourists visited the rare place and
experience the excitement of sliding over the sand and listening to its magic
tunes.
The Singing Sand is 110 metres high, 400 meters wide with an incline of 45
degrees . The terrains present a crescent moon , forming a huge echo wall of the
sand hill. The high dunes, one after another, stretch far off into the sky.
The local government plans to further update tourist facilities to greeting
the increasing number of visitors coming to this wonderland.
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