The "Plateau Pearl" – Dian Lake, for instance, is characterized as a combination of the lake's gracefulness and the sea's imposingness. Surrounded by a number of places of interest, it is the central scenic area in Kunming. The Stone Forest which is 85 kilometers from Kunming city is one of the four biggest natural landscape areas in China, renowned for the bizarre and grotesque pinnacle karst formations, and the annual winter migration of the Siberian Red beaked seagulls in the Green Lake will probably impress you a lot. Some other attractions such as the Golden Temple, Jiuxiang (Nine Villages), the Western Hills are also the highlights of Kunming.