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The Baishui Terraces, also called white water terraces is approximately 90 kilometers from the center of Shanggri-la County. It is located at the Bai people's village at the foot of Haba Snow Mountain. The terraced slope is 140 meters in length and 160 meters in width, with a semicircular platform pool on the top surrounded by white limestone.

The terraces gradually formed over hundreds of thousands of years. The variegated landform of the tableland is a continual deposition of calcium carbonate that is contained in the spring water. Every year, the surface of the land is covered ...Read More