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The Glossary

shan - "means mountain. If you see a shan at the end of the name of a place, it means that it is a mountain in which you may hike, camp, or make a temple visit if it is a sacred mountain."

From China Glossary

A part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Prefecture, Western Guizhou is often regarded as Guizhou's "Wild West" for its remoteness, rough and rubble-studded roads, undulating karst hills, loess plateaus, river-carved gorges, and far-fetched natural wonders such as Caohai Lake, Weining Nature Reserve, and Malinghe Xiagu or Maling Gorge's cascading waterfalls.

Alternatively known as Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Western Guizhou is among those that have the most lakes in China. The lakes come in all forms and sizes. There are lakes like Tongtian and Shiquan that serve as the sources of some of the world's major rivers and civilization cradles like Yangtze, Indus, and Brahmaputra. There are also inland lakes like Seling Co and Namco, the region's largest inland lake. There are also lakes that turn into glaciers for winter ice-skating, and there also some that come in clusters. This heavy lake population makes some tourist be left with little wonder why rafting tops the list of to-do's in the region.

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