Check out this beautiful, sweeping drone video of Chinas Niagara Falls

Despite being difficult to get to, the Hukou River is a popular tourist attraction in China. It’s out in the middle of nowhere where the Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau into China’s version of the Grand Canyon, which creates a Niagara-like waterfall.

Granted, both of these features are much, much smaller than their North American counterparts, but it’s still a sight.

This beautiful drone footage gives you the sensation of actually being at the Yellow River in the Loess Plateau, which the Chinese believe is their “cradle of humanity.”

Decades of over-farming and over-grazing caused an environmental crisis on the Loess Plateau. The Yellow River was eroding billions of tons of sediment because of the lack of vegetation.

In 2007, the World Bank initiated the first of two projects to end the overuse and instill sustainable farming practices. More than 2.5 million people were lifted out of poverty, incomes doubled and sediment erosion was reduced by 100 million tons per year after the two projects were completed, according to the World Bank.

It’s winter, so the plateau looks brown and dry in this video — more like the desert Southwest than the lush, fertile land seen in recent photos.

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