 Admitted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987.  Stretches approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) across china  Build by soldiers, prisoners,

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 Admitted in the World Heritage by UNESCO in  Stretches approximately 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) across china  Build by soldiers, prisoners, and village people of the time.

 Take a trip down this 3,900 mile river through china  Has “Three Gorges” and beautiful natural and foreign scenery  Experience the ancient culture through the many ports of call along the way.

 Qin Shi Huang’s (first emperor of china) museum  Spans 16,300 square meters in three sections  over 7,000 pottery soldiers, horses, chariots, and weapons have been unearthed from the pits

 Worlds largest complex spanning 74 Hectares (7400 Acres)  Surrounded by 6m deep moat and a 10m high wall. Protects 9,999 buildings  Wonderful decorations and architecture

 Known since the Ming Dynasty ( A.D.) as the 'First Wonder of the World.'  Covers 96,000 acres  Stone masterpieces vary in location to on the surface, underground, and underwater.

 Covers nearly 300,000 square meters.  A wonder of culture and religion built in 1468  Extravagant paintings and statues  One nine story wall displaying the image of Buddha

 Seven floor building originally build in 1645  Present size 117 meters high, 360 meters width, covering more than 130,000 sq meters.

 Well preserved old city of ethnic minorities.  Covers 912 acres  Only old city build without a city wall, ask and they will tell you a story.  put in the list of the World's Relics by the World Cultural Heritage Commission of the UNESCO on December 3, 1997.

 One of the greatest symbols of china  Wont want to see another mountain after this one  Truly a sight to behold