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Visitors experience "flames" at Flaming Mount

www.chinanews.cn 2005-07-06 15:56:18

On July 5th, the thermometer in the shape of "gold-tipped stick" (a magic
tool used by Monkey King in the classic novel Journey to the West) read
56 degrees Celsius (132.8 degrees Fahrenheit) at the foot of the Flaming
Mountain in Xinjiang's Turpan Basin. Many tourists from all over the
country came to see the mountain on account of its high temperature. The
mountain, located in the middle of Xinjiang's Turpan Basin, stretches for
98 kilometers from east to west and 9 kilometers from south to north,
with its highest altitude reaching 851 meters. The mighty and imposing
mountain is very hot under the scorching sun. From May to October every
year, more than 800,000 Chinese and foreign tourists come here to
experience "raging flames."

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