One of the real pleasures of location scouting (although it does not always feel like it at the time when the alarm goes off..) are the very early mornings. To see the world at such a peaceful new dawn, as the sun rises, in so many places, is memorable. For me the one place that stands out is on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

I was scouting VFX plates for the first Wonder Woman film across China, and having landed in Chengdu Airport in Sichuan, I then drove the 360km journey along the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, to the UNESCO heritage site of the Huanglong National Park. It really is one of the worlds special places.

Made up of snow-capped peaks and glaciers, in addition to its mountain landscape, diverse forest ecosystems can be found, as well as spectacular limestone formations, waterfalls and hot springs. The area also has a population of endangered animals, including the giant panda and the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey.

I left the hotel an hour before sunrise the following day, and nearing the entrance to the National Park up at around 5,000 metres. A short scramble over some rocks and there I was level with the clouds, as the sun was peaking over the distant Himalayan Mountains.

With relatively undisturbed and highly diverse forest ecosystems, combined with the more spectacular localised karst formations, such as travertine pools, waterfalls and limestone shoals. Its travertine terraces and lakes are certainly unique in all of Asia, and rate among the three most outstanding examples in the world.