Delivering Valued Experience to Adventurous Travellers... Three
Parallel Rivers Three Parallel Rivers,Yunnan The Three Parallel
Rivers, namely the Jinsha Jiang, Lancang Jiang, and Nu Jiang
join together forming an unmatched natural miracle, a
geographical accident of the Himalayan orogeny that began 40
million years ago. Originating on China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,
the three rivers are the upper reaches of the well-known
Yangtze, Mekong, and Salween rivers. They flow 170km from north
to south, through the high mountains and ranges of Yunnan
Province-the Dandanglika, the Gaoligong, the Nushan, and the
Yunling-side by side by side without converging. The shortest
distance between the Lancang and Jinsha rivers is 66km, the
Lancang Jiang and Nu Jiang come to about 19km of each other. The
Three Parallel Rivers is NOT a scenic spot, but a vast area in
northwest Yunnan of 1.7 million hectares, comprising 9 nature
reserves and 10 scenic resorts in Lijiang, Diqing Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture, and Nujiang Lisu Auton