18Li Vanilla Valley is located in the third mesa in the beauty spot, with its altitude of 1,460 meters and its ancient name of White Dragon Slope. Just like a white dragon zigzagging in the virgin forest, somewhere it intersects, somewhere it cascades and somewhere it meanders secluded till very far away. With brook waterfront, cascade ponds and breezy water, it dominates among all Mountain Tiantai's waterscapes. There are riverbeds of dark sandstone free of sand and soil, with water flowing on it and overlapping vanilla flourishing as well as withered bines circling trees on either of its banks, precious and unwonted birds and beasts appearing and disappearing and age-old plank roads, old-age temples and sites of ancient houses everywhere. With its theme of playing with water this beauty spot provides a series of programs concerning water such as going against the stream, water paddling, water treading, rafting in a bamboo raft, mill wheel game, revolving boat game and so on. This beauty spot, the function of which is a combination of amusement, sightseeing, exploration and science popularization, is regarded as one and only valley of dabbling in the mountain in south Sichuan. |