May 1 At Singing Sand Ravine

On May 1, 2009, the Third China Photography Tourism Festival will be having its grand opening at Singing Sand Ravine desert, visitors from all over the country will appreciate the enchantment of the singing sand, providing photographers a broader room for creativity at the same time as well.

Singing Sand Ravine, located in the central of Dalate Banner in Ordos City of Inner Mongolia, reachable by turning onto the East Baotou highway from HuheHaote to Baotou, is 50 kilometers south of Baotou, belonging to a natural desert scenic spot with crescent or chain Grid Hill mound topography, officially opened by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as tourist attractions in January 1984, lined in the list of the state scenic spots in 1991, classified as 4A-class tourist attractions by the National Tourism Administration in 2002.

Singing Sand Ravine, back of Kobqi the dragonhead of the desert, facing the Hantaidacuan, also known as resonant "yinken", 110 meters in height, 200 meters in width, 45 degrees in gradient of a huge crescent-shaped dune as a echoing wall at the edge of the desert, is a rare, valuable, and precious natural tourist resource. The transparent water desert lake, 2 km south of the crescent echoing sand wall, is a small square sand humid year round, regarded as the “desert sweet fountain”. About 3 kilometers west of the desert lake, a high desert highland 1486 meters above sea level, there is the famous Kobqi yinken yurt on it. The mysterious phenomenon that the sand can sing attracts the tourists from all over the world to come and enjoy on the singing sand; like pine roaring in Spring; frog drumming and cicada singing in Summer; horse neighing and monkey crying in Autumn; thunder lacerating across the sky in Winter.

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