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low noise and emission in the key area.
And the roads, trestles and walkway are
built according to the standard of world
culture preservation. The choice of ma-
terials of trestles and walkway in the key
area concerns about authenticity and ecol-
ogy, most of them is local red gravel stone
board and wood with features of safety,
environmental friendliness and endurance.
Finished Wolonggang forest ecological
tourism walkway in Baota peak is one of
key projects for Mt. Danxia's application
for World natural heritage tourism, and key
route for the experts of Mt. Danxia's ap-
plication. It is 4 thousand and 3 hundred
meters long, the overhead constructs the
board to guarantee the growth and com-
munication of creatures on the ground.
The construction of this project strictly fol-
lows the requirement of ecological tourism
walkway and scientific survey. On the way,
there are abundant scenery resource, com-
pletely preserved ecological vegetation,
diversified creature and distinctive terrain
characteristics.
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Sightseeing and visiting facility. Many
visitors like to choose cozy bamboo raft
tour in beautiful Mt.Danxia. The bamboo
raft drifting locates from Shixia village of
Jingjiang river to Niubi bridge in 8 kilome-
ters which is a distinctive ecological tour-
ism project in Mt. Danxia. Raft is made up
of 16 thick bamboos bound together where
puts six bamboo backed chairs. There are
two boatmen and one guide in every raft.
And tourists can appreciate the beauty of
nature, and charming of Mt. Danxiashan.
This sightseeing programme bears the fea-
ture of ecology, environmental friendli-
ness, low consumption and emission and
memorable to visitors. On the way of Elder
peak, tourists can see another special sight-
seeing vehicle in Mt.Danxia—manpower
decorated sedan chair. Four strong local
men make a sedan chair team. Every sedan
chair will be checked and numbered, and
tourists can get to the Elder Peak by riding
it. This facility not only full uses human
resource to help local people get some eco-
nomic interest, it also decreases resource
and energy consumption and carbon emis-
sion to minimize the ecological effect in
the tourism area.
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Architecture facility. In the tourism area,
there are appropriate numbers of build-
ings with proper size. And most materi-
als are local gravel sedimentary rocks and
other qualified stuff without mosaic path,
glass screen wall and iron sheet shed etc.
And it pays attention to the privacy of the
building, pipeline and functional facility
construction. What's more, it is prohib-
ited to randomly set up individual booth to
cut garbage pollution source and electric-
ity hidden hazards etc. There establishes
proper visitor service center and environ-
mental monitor spot to be responsible for
consultant, environmental hygiene super-
vision, fire-proofing and hazard prevention
etc. These buildings locate in the region
with proper terrain and size to secure cost-
saving and environmental friendliness.
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Organizing environmental friendly activ-
ity with advocating low-carbon life and
tourism. Treking cross Mt. Danxiashan
is one important global activity after it
successfully passed UNESCO's experts'
field evaluation for world natural heri-
tage application. So far it has hold once
and the plan for the second is on the way.
The trekking route mainly refers to the
country path without the interference
from modern transportation which cov-
ers Mt.Huanggang, Mt. Jigong, Shangjing
Path and nominated place of world natural
heritage of Mt. Danxia such as Bazhai, Mt.
Tianluo, Mt. Shangtianlong, Sister Peak,
