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Moli Rainforest (Ruili) ——One of the Most Famous Scenic Spots in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture

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Moli Rainforest (Ruili) ——One of the Most Famous Scenic Spots in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture

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About 5 km northeast of Ruiwan Bridge, Moli is located in an area of Ruili where Luxi, Ruili and Longchuan County come together. It is said to be the natural oxygen bar with the highest concentration of negative oxygen ion in China. “Moli” is a word in the Dai language, meaning “Beautiful Waterfall.” Moli is also called Zhaduo. Legend has it that, Buddha once came here, and then he fasted for practicing Buddhism and took a bath by the hot spring here and left a giant footprint.

In memory of the arrival of Buddha himself, later generations call this area “Zhaduo” in Pali. On the stele's ground-faced side, there is a giant left footprint with sole and toes are clearly legible. The footprint is 96 cm long, front sole 43 cm wide, arch 33 cm wide, and heel 52 cm wide.

The believers painted the footprint with gold powder to make it shiny. During every Buddhist festival, this place is thronged with pilgrims. Here, you can see that thousands of tropical or subtropical plants together block out sunlight, and you can encounter the huge century-old vine, the cruel "strangler fig" with a nickname of "tropical cold-blooded killer", and the millennium-old fern and ten-millennia-old fossil, which indicates that the ecology of the original rainforest here is remarkably preserved. Wild animals such as wild boars, bears, elks, pythons, peacocks, elephants, and blue monkeys bring a primitive sense to this place.

After walking through the sunless rainforest for a long time, you can faintly hear the pitter patter of water. Following the sound to the end of the canyon where it turns as high as a thunder, your horizon suddenly becomes wide and you can see the sky as well as a gargantuan waterfall pours down from a cliff 60 m above you. "Splashing water flies away like fluffed cotton without the use of a bow," and this is how we describe the Zhaduo Waterfall.

In the Moli Scenic Area, there is a hot spring and a resort hotel. The Moli Scenic Area locates in the Moli Canyon (also named Emerald Canyon) 21.2km northeast of the downtown area of Ruili, a city in Yunnan Province. “Moli” indicates “beautiful waterfall” in the Dai language

Featuring unique rainforest landscape, the Moli Scenic Area is renowned for its gorgeous and fanciful natural and cultural landscape and a holy place of Buddhism. It is the most famous scenic area in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture.