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Q: Is there any unexplored wilderness left in China?
Apparently there are still some undiscovered tribes living in parts of the amazon. Could there are also still be some remote places untouched by modern people in China?
11 years 5 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
There's plenty, scattered all over the country, and by complete chance it all exists in exactly the same places as driving academies.
There's plenty, scattered all over the country, and by complete chance it all exists in exactly the same places as driving academies.
not sure any place has been 'untouched by modern people', but I would call this a great wilderness...
I hope someday to travel there.
Takla Makan Desert is China's largest desert, situated in the middle of the largest Basin, Tarim in Xinjiang Province. This is reputed to be the world's second largest shifting-sand desert covering an area of over 33, 700 square kilometers (over 13,000 square miles).
In Uigur language, Takla Makan means 'you can get into it but can never get out' and the desert has another name 'the Sea of Death'. The desert is regarded as being very powerful among the people; no wonder the name connotes fear. But there was an interesting legend about its origin. It was said that there was a Supernatural Being, who saw the hardship being faced by the people in this area and thought that he could help them by using the two magic objects in his possession namely the golden axe and the golden key. He gave his golden axe to the Kazakh, so they split the mountain Altai and diverted water from the mountains to the fields. The Supernatural Being planned to give the golden key to the Uigur so that they could open the door of the treasure-house of the Tarim Basin, but unfortunately his youngest daughter lost the key. This angered him so much that he held her a captive in the Tarim Basin and thus the Takla Makan Desert was formed.
Continuous sand dunes in this large Takla Makan Desert are usually over 100 meters high (over 109 yards) and some are even higher than 300 meters (about 328 yards). Because of the wind, the sand dunes are always moving forward and statistics suggests that each year they move about 150 meters (about 164 yards), which seriously threatens the existence of oasis and the survival of the local populace. For the past 50 years, the Chinese Government has made great effort to plant trees to reduce the encroachments of the sandstorms. With the help of experts, local people planted diversiform-leaved poplars, rose-willows, pomegranate trees, mulberries and built windbreak belts as corrective measures and in some places, people even cultivate corn. There is an improvement in the living condition of the local people, thanks to the increase in vegetation. Now there are over 80 species of birds' resident in the interior desert and the precipitation is increasing as well.
Shining_brow:
Nice copy and paste from Chinatravelguide.com.
Also, I thought I read that there was a military base up there somewhere...???
diverdude1:
gracias.
is that an oblique reference to the Han occupation of Xinjiang ?
*merde happens (and always will)
mArtiAn:
Takla Makan: you can get into it but you can never get out, eh? Sounds like an argument with the missus. She's not unlike the Sea of Death neither: she goes on and on and on until you wish you were bleedin' dead. Or deaf.
MissA:
SB - there's a whole load of military bases out there, and Xinjiang is also reputed to be where a lot of the secret bases (i.e. nuclear) are kept.
The Taklamakan is truly imposing. I highly doubt that any part of it is actually unexplored - after all Xinjiang has thousands of years of history and there were plenty of Silk Road routes through it - but it certainly feels wild and unexplored. Diver, be careful with any "most kind government helps most grateful locals" stories - the propaganda wars are pretty intense in Xinjiang, and actually a lot of locals (Uighur and second and third generation Han migrants) have intense concerns about the effect of mining and settlement programs on the environment out west, particularly as regard water usage.
The roof of my apartment building appeared unexplored. There was a 15 foot tall pine tree growing out of the concrete.
If the place hasn't been explored by modern people, it basically means there doesn't live any people. Extremely tough environments.such as :
神农架 Shennongjia Forestry District
罗布泊 Lop Nur (from a mongolian name meaning "Lop Lake）, where China established the Lop Nor Nuclear Test Base
可可西里无人区 (Kekexili (Hoh Xil).,) China's least and the world's third-least populated area
西藏西北部 Northwest of Tibet,，
新疆塔克拉马干沙漠 Takla Makan Desert
China, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the stir crazy expats. Its 5-year mission: to explore really really strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. The women thanks us.
Although, China was dormant to the rest of the world it wasn't dormant to it's own people. I highly doubt that the country once known as the 'hermit crab nation' has any hidden wilderness places. Afterall, if there was a place to build more apartments don't you think it would have been done already?
if it's untouched it was deemed useless to development
If there is and anybody knows of it, don't tell.
There would be an unexplored wilderness theme park with plastic dinosaurs, souvenir stands and balloons for the kids built there within the year.
