A popular photo spot...
http://www.cbprim.ru/rel2001/rel0148.htm
Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., orc@o... wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...> wrote:
> >
> > > Fresh from a covert mission on p2 of "China's Tumen River Area,
> investment
> >
> > > guide", UNIDO sponsored report, Yanbian/Hunchun 1998.
> >
> > > The rail bridge links Russia and N.Korea. The tript is in the
> river itself,
> >
> > > and there is a road bridge fomr China to NK further upriver.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > BW
> >
> > >
> >
> > >
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