The Cloud Valley Villa is a modern hotel
with typical Hui- architectural
style of grey tiles and horse-head walls.
There are three precious trees here. The
Eastern China Douglas Fir that
is 500 years old and the Southern Hemlock which is 800 years
old; both
stand firm and stately through their long history. One common
feature of
these two trees is that they both have two kinds of branches
and two
kinds of leaves, conifer and broad-leaf. The third super
star is a
ginkgo tree calculated to be 1,000 years. It will certainly
catch your
eye owing to its height of 26 meters (85 feet) and huge
girth measuring
3.1 meters (10.17 feet).
The Nine-Dragon Waterfall plunges all of
300 meters (984feet) from the
cliff top between the Incense Burner Peak and the Arhat
Peak. The
waterfall has nine leaps, each leap forms a waterfall and
each fall
feeds a pool, hence the name.
This area is the so-called Rear Mountain
and it is possible to climb all
the way up.
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