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Article: Big park, bigger issues: established last year in the northwest of China, Kanas National Park is one of the world's largest. But officials must find ways to keep tourism levels sustainable and accommodate the ethnic Tuwa people who live there.(travel: KANAS NATIONAL PARK)
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- May 1, 2009
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Marriage has suddenly become very popular in Hemu, one of the world's most remote villages. In the past two years, the village, located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in northwestern China, has registered a spike of unions between outsiders and native Tuwa people. The attraction is, apparently, physical: not physical as in beauty, but physical as in geography. Hemu is set to become a hot tourist destination following its inclusion in Kanas National Park--designated last July--and canny operators are rushing to secure property rights in the picturesque village by whatever means necessary.
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