Friday, November 2, 2012

World's highest national park opens in Tibet

by CNNGo staff

China has set another tourism record by opening what it dubs "the world?s highest national park" last week in Tibet Autonomous Region, according to China Daily.

Standing on "the roof of the world," the Qomolangma National Park (????????) embraces five eight-thousander mountains, including 8,848-meter Mount Everest (known in China as Mount Qomolangma), 8,201-meter Mount Cho Oyo and 8,013-meter Shishapangma.

The sky-high attraction also contains 10 mountains rising between 7,000-8,000 meters, as well as glaciers, hot springs and alpine forests.

High, huge and resourceful

Occupying 78,000 square kilometers, the newly unveiled tourist spot is roughly the size of the Czech Republic and is situated in the Xigaze Prefecture (???) in southern Tibet Autonomous Region, near China's border with Nepal.

"The national park will be focused on the protection of the ecology and biodiversity and prevention from illegal resource exploitation or land use," said Sun Yongping (???), deputy chief of the Tibetan Tourism Bureau, reported China Daily.

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