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Water, stone and high valleys

A regional view of Sichuan

Follow the Min and the Yangtze, then climb into the high valleys, to see how the regions and their places sit across Sichuan. Points are representative references, not boundaries, gates or routes.

Sichuan
Chengdu Deyang Leshan Ya'an Aba Ganzi Liangshan Yibin Zigong Heming Teahouse Jinsha Site Dujiangyan Sanxingdui Leshan Giant Buddha Mount Emei Mengding Mountain Dengchigou Hejiangmen Shenhai Well Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Taoping Qiang Village Suopo Towers Dege Printing House Jianchang Ancient City Mianyang Guangyuan Meishan Nanchong Luzhou Li Bai Memorial Yuewang Tower Mianyang Science City Qianfo Cliff Mingyue Gorge Huangze Temple Sansu Shrine Qingshen Bamboo Weaving Langzhong Ancient City Nanchong Silk Park Luzhou Old Pits Fubao Ancient Town Wuhou Shrine Du Fu Thatched Cottage

Approximate regional orientation · north is up · not for navigation

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Ganzi.

Ganzi stretches from the Dadu valley to the Tibetan plateau. Danba's towers and Dege's printing house are two ways the region has built with stone, wood and paper.

A stone tower at Danba, Sichuan
A stone tower at Danba, Sichuan

Ganzi

Suopo Towers

The roof below the towers

In Jiaju, stone houses with white walls and painted windows stand on a hillside under Danba's towers, and the flat roofs are working surfaces.

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Suopo Towers

The stone towers of Suopo in Danba, part of a county-wide group of 562 towers and sites.

Dege Printing House

The 1729 printing house in Dege where Tibetan texts are still printed from woodblocks.
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  1. A stone tower at Danba, SichuanMunford / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. The printing house at DegeLjbonner / CC BY-SA 4.0 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.