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Shennongjia, Home to the Wild Men?
So whether the story is in the human mind or a reality is hard to tell. Have
you ever had an interest in it since your childhood? If you come
to shennongjia, you will not to be disappointed. even if you didn't see the
wild men.
Treasures of wildlife
Shennongjia is situated in the west of Hubei Province, not far from the
entrance to the Three Gorges. It's part of a number of mountain ranges that
close the Sichuan Basin on its eastern side. Shennongjia is the higher point at
about 3,000 metres in elevation.
All the mountains are karstic, a kind of lime that turns into a gigantic
spongelike form with cavities that range from the size of your finger to those
of caves. For those who are familiar with Swiss cheese, karst formations will be
quite familiar. In many places, it's very hard to walk because such
rocks are interlaced with dense scrub and bamboo. Many mountain ranges all over
the world have such geology.
When you visit them you can understand that animals of every size can hide
easily in such places. Humans have difficulty penetrating a dense forest growing
on karst. So Shennongjia is probably one of very few virgin temperate forest
remaining in the world. Animals can hide easily in such places and many are
recorded, such as the takin, a kind of big mountain goat, the golden monkey and
the leopard.
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