tarboat's photos with the keyword: manzhouli

SY 0959 leads its train back into the pit at Jalainur opencast coal mine. An impervious layer of rock within one of the coal seam meant that water flows erupted from the face at this level and formed a row of ice waterfalls in the bitterly cold conditions.

Desolate landscape from the plane approaching Manzhouli on the flight from Beijing. Typical view for this end of the Mongolian Autonomous Region. The land on the horizon is most likely the Mongolian Republic.

Ice sculpture is big business in the northern parts of China where crowds flock to see the sculptures illuminated at night in a fairground atmosphere. In the town of Manzhouli in the Mongolian Autonomous Region, close to the Russian border, there are two adjacent rival attractions close to the power station which joins in the fun with an ice topping to the cooling tower.

Sunset behind the city of Manzhouli close to the Russian border in the north-west of the Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. This city has grown massively in the last fifteen years and is now a major trading centre with Russia.