Thank you for that nice picture, Brendan. I've been surfing around
now, and it helps to know that the river Tumen is sometimes called
Tumannaja (Misty, or foggy, river), and the area is sometimes called
Tumangan. This is how I found this Russian site:
http://www.febras.ru/~imb/trdap/news/rmount.htm . It is about a trip
to China: into the Chinese cul-de-sac that ends with cnkpru. Look for
the last pictures.
"On the road to the south-east, to Fanchuan, there are small private
and poor open air coal pits - the coal reaches the surface here
(picture 20). The road is being reconstructed and is reminiscent of
our former socialist building sites (picture 21). From Jantzi, it
runs through Hunchun to the border with Korea and the Sea of Japan.
The present road, which enters the hills near the Russian border,
doesn't have tunnels; they are being built at present. Coming down
again from the hills, you arrive in the valley of the lower course of
the Tumannaja stream, here are the well-known marshlands of Tzinsin,
where, like in the Chasan marshlands, migratory birds stop over. The
new road touches the Tumannaja river shore. Here is the last bridge
to the Korean side before the sea. The old, worn-out road runs down
to Fanchuan along the river. For one stretch, only this road is
Chinese, which runs in between the old course of the river (the
Russian side) and the main course (the Korean side) (picture 22). At
last, Fanchuan. This is a small barracks town, nothing more (picture
23). Past it, the last Chinese outpost, with a touristic centre which
is under construction. In good weather, you can see the sea from
here. But when we were visiting, there was fog on the Tumannaja
(picture 24)."
(transcriptions of Chinese names are from Russian and thus not much
worth...)
It is interesting to compare picture 24 with Brendan's picture. Pic.
24 is photographed a bit further down, I think. I think the pond to
the left is part of the old Tumannaja course, through which the cnru
border runs. Somewhere in between this pond and the river there must
be the cnru border crossing.
Peter S.
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> brendan a bulls eye on request yet & our third new tricountry pic
of the fifth millennium following aeomsa in 4486 by harry & chfrit in
4014 by marcel & revitalizing our entire worldclass tript photo
collection after millennia of diminishing returns even while i am
still working my way back thru a few others to my previous collection
of them totalling perhaps only another couple dozen out of the 170ish
land targets we have identified so all this is most fulfilling i
think all around m
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> > Fresh from a covert mission on p2 of "China's Tumen River Area,
investment
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> > guide", UNIDO sponsored report, Yanbian/Hunchun 1998.
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> > The rail bridge links Russia and N.Korea. The tript is in the
river itself,
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> > and there is a road bridge fomr China to NK further upriver.
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