Frontier & Grassland

Grasslands, lakes and northern forests — a vast frontier where many peoples have long lived side by side.

Sayram Lake

The last teardrop of the Atlantic: a great blue lake cradled by snow mountains.

Where Atlantic moisture ends its journey — a serene alpine lake of deep blue.

China’s largest grassland, an endless green sea and the homeland of nomadic peoples.

The largest grassland in China and the ancestral land of Mongol nomadic civilization.

Alpine grassland and wetland of nine winding channels: at sunset, several suns reflect in the river at once.

A plateau wetland ringed by snow mountains, famed for the nine bends of the Kaidu River at sunset.

A fairy-tale world in the north: birch woods, emerald water, and autumn colors that dazzle the world.

A northern secret realm of birch forest and jade water, home to China’s finest autumn scenery.