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China · Nature & Wildlife · Hard
Which limestone pillar forests near Kunming, Yunnan—called the '' (Shilin)—are a 270-million-year-old Permian-era seabed uplifted and eroded into a surreal landscape of grey pinnacles, some over 30 metres tall?
Answer: Stone Forest — Shilin's karst formations are so named because the limestone pillars resemble a petrified forest from a distance. The Sani people (a branch of the Yi minority) hold the annual Torch Festival here, and local legend says the forest was created by immortals.
- A Wulingyuan pillars
- B Zhangye Danxia
- C Tsingy de Bemaraha
- D Stone Forest ✓
Shilin's karst formations are so named because the limestone pillars resemble a petrified forest from a distance. The Sani people (a branch of the Yi minority) hold the annual Torch Festival here, and local legend says the forest was created by immortals.