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Guizhou Triassic Fossil Sites
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- Guizhou Triassic Fossil Sites (ID: 6381)
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On tentative list 2019
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You are probably thinking the same as me: another fossil site? Have you been to any WHS for fossils and you will know they are mighty boring. We have one in Canada which isn't half bad due to the tour guide explaining things well and you even get to hold a fossil as cool as you might think that is, and the Swiss - Italian Monte San Giorgio is pretty scenery to make it worth the trip, but similar to the Chinese site in Yunnan - Chengjiang Fossil Site - which gets one of the LOWEST ratings on this site, there is really not much worth seeing here. Disclaimer: The TWHS consists of 4 sites and I visited the Guanling Biota far south of Guiyang but I am very sure the others won't be much different. To get to Guanling you can take a bus or high-speed train but then you will need a taxi to drive you up the mountain and back as the museum is a bit far away from civilization. When I called the museum beforehand they claimed to have a bus running from the coach station in Guanling but there was nothing remotely like that once I arrived and the buses to the countryside are very infrequent. They did have an e-bus parked outside the entrance so perhaps it does shuttle from somewhere but alas I don't recommend it.
The museum seems big, my picture only shows the main exhibition hall, but most of the …
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