Irtysh Grand Canyon, where emerald waters thread through and white birches add their touches of color, brings mountains, water, rocks, and trees together into a northern Xinjiang landscape scroll of "one mountain, one scene, one world."
In the Irtysh Grand Canyon, 108 granite peaks stand facing each other along the river; Shenzhong Mountain resembles an inverted giant bell, its solitary peak rising 365 m straight from the ground, with emerald waters flowing through.
Yileimu Lake, shaped like a giant "8"—like an aquamarine gently set down by the mountains, so still it seems to gather all the cloud shadows and skylight of the Altai.