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Offbeat Traveler: Red Beach in Panjin, China

In the spring, the seaweed starts off green and reddens as fall approaches. Its vermillion color peaks sometime in September.

In the spring, the seaweed starts off green and reddens as fall approaches. Its vermillion color peaks sometime in September.   (AFP / Getty Images)

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Papakolea Beach on Hawaii’s Big Island get its green color from olivine minerals. Coral tints Pink Sands Beach in the Bahamas. At Red Beach in Panjin, a city about 300 miles northeast of Beijing, it’s seaweed. The wetland is home to a unique variety of alkali-tolerant seaweed that changes from green to red in the fall.

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Visitors take in Red Beach from a wooden walkway.   (AFP / Getty Images)

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Turtle sculptures at Red Beach.   (AFP / Getty Images)

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Several rare bird species pass through Red Beach, including the red-crowned crane.   (AFP / Getty Images)

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Grasses grow above the red seaweed.   (AFP / Getty Images)

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