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Lying about 15 km (9 miles) east of Anshun, Yunshan is yet another fortified village, founded by Ming-dynasty troops. It is not hard to see why there were so many rebellions and uprisings in this area followed by large scale bloody massacres. This one contains a scattering of old structures, including the elegant Qiyan Qiao, a seven arch bridge. Tiantai Shan, 25 km northeast of town, is a 400-m (1,300-ft) hill with a cluster of thickly forested crags, whose summit is crowned by a Buddhist temple dating from 1616. Another 25 km southwest of Anshun, Zhenning County has a concentration of traditional Bouyi villages. The houses are built of skillfully laid drystone walls, with roofs tiled in hand-cut slates, overlapping like fish scales. The village of Shishao, built almost entirely in stone, is known for its Ground Opera, a regional variation of traditional Han opera, brought here by soldiers from Nanjing during the Ming era.
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Centered around a geological formation known as the Guanling Formation, which is notable for its Triassic fossils. A number of these fossils are displayed at an on-site museum. The museum includes three excavation pits where you can see fossils in situ. There is even a site where visitors are permitted to dig for fossils on their own (though whether you would be allowed to keep them and take them out of the country is another matter).