Chishui Danxia Tourist Area is a unique scenic spot full of magical charm of nature. Here you can feel the rich vitality of life and the power of nature. You will meet the most exciting things here. In a moment, I will share with you a detailed play strategy guide.
Chishui Waterfall
Chishui Danxia Tourist Area is located in the south of Chishui City, Guizhou Province, covering an area of ??36.3 square kilometers. It consists of three scenic sections: Chishui Waterfall, Foguang Rock and Swallow Rock. The tourist area is the core scenic spot of Chishui Danxia, ??a world natural heritage, and is also a national geological park, national forest park, and national nature reserve. The tourist area is mainly characterized by Danxia landforms, waterfalls, bamboo seas, philodendrons, and virgin forests. It is the epitome of the Chishui National Scenic Area "City of Thousands of Waterfalls, Crown of Danxia, ??Home of Bamboo, and Kingdom of Cyperophora", which is rare in the world. .
Chishui Danxia Tourist Area·Great Waterfall is the trump card scenic spot in Chishui Scenic Area and one of the core components of the "Chishui Danxia" application for world natural heritage. It is 34 kilometers away from Chishui City and takes about 40 minutes by car. The scenic spot is characterized by Chishui Waterfall and Meirenshu Waterfall. It also has cultural landscapes such as the Qibing Ancient Trail, Xiangxi Lake, Huishui Temple Moyan Statue, Red Army slogans, etc. The scenic area covers an area of ??about 10 square kilometers, and the round-trip tour is about 4.5 kilometers. The walking tour takes 3.5 hours, and it only takes 1.5 hours to take the scenic sightseeing car and environmentally friendly elevator. Ticket price: 180 yuan/person for a combined ticket to the Chishui Danxia Tourist Area (Great Waterfall, Swallow Rock, Foguang Rock), 90 yuan/person for the Great Falls ticket alone, 10 yuan/person for a one-way sightseeing bus, 20 yuan/person for a round-trip, elevator One way 20/person, round trip 40/person.
Chishui Waterfall is 76.2 meters high and 80 meters wide. It is the first waterfall in the Yangtze River system and one of the best waterfall wonders in my country. Mr. Liu Haisu, a leading figure in the painting world, praised it as "Beauty in the Empty Valley", and experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences rated it as "the wonder of China's Danxia Waterfall". Some people sang, "The Milky Way is suspected to be falling from the sky, and the fairy scene of Penglai is descending to the world." Some people sang, "I hate this place forever, how many people can appreciate the magnificence?" In short, it has endless grandeur and endless sighs.
Foguang Rock Attractions
Chishui Danxia Tourist Area·Foguang Rock is located in Yuanhou Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province. It is located between Dalou Mountain and the Guizhou Plateau at the northern foot of the rapid subsidence towards the Sichuan Basin. In this area, the valleys are deep and the slopes are steep, with crisscrossing streams and rivers, the cutting depth is between 500 meters and 1300 meters, and the peaks are mostly over 1200 meters, with broken rocks and valleys with great height differences. It is the core scenic spot of Chishui China Danxia·Chishui World Natural Heritage Site, mainly composed of Foguang Rock, Five Pillars Peak, Liyuan Ditch and Paradise. It is an ecological scenic spot dominated by Danshan Mountain, clear water, green forests and waterfalls, and is an important part of Chishui Danxia. The scenic area covers an area of ??about 10 square kilometers, and the entire scenic area tour takes about 2-4 hours. The scenic spot is 6 kilometers away from the township highway intersection and 44 kilometers away from the urban area. The drive takes about 45 minutes.
Foguang Rock is known as "the first garden of Danxia" and "one of the most unique red scenery". It is famous for Foguang Rock, which is "Danxia cliff, a wonder in the world" and Wuzhu Peak, which is "created in heaven and earth, and uncanny workmanship". As the main landscape, there are more than 30 beautiful sights and wonders such as Danxia landform, strange peaks and rocks, cliff caves, Foguang Rock, Bailong Waterfall, Danxia Castle, Camellia Forest, etc. It consists of five major scenic spots including Baozi Valley and Leopard Valley.
Danxia landform is a kind of "red bed landform" named and first studied by Chinese geologists in the 1920s. It is a thick horizontal or gently sloping landform developed from the Jurassic to the Tertiary. On top of the layer of red sandy conglomerate, the vertical joints along the rock layer are retreated by water erosion, weathering, peeling off and collapse, forming the strange and dangerous red cliff landforms of square mountains, stone walls, stone peaks and stone pillars with flat tops, steep bodies and gentle slopes. It is called Danxia landform. To put it simply, it is a "red clastic rock landform with steep cliffs and dominated by sandy conglomerate." Because this landform was first studied in Danxia Mountain in Renhua County, Guangdong Province, this landform is called "Danxia landform". The rock composition of the Danxia landform contains a large amount of iron oxide and manganese oxide that are not easily lost. These two red-red mineral elements are difficult to dissolve in water and are the least active. After sunlight, wind and rain, temperature, biology, crustal movement, etc. The combined effect of these natural forces has formed vivid Danxia stone shapes and various strange Danxia landforms.
Due to regional and vertical differences, Foguang Rock has significant regional climate and vegetation characteristics in the scenic area: large temperature differences, obvious three-dimensional climate (hot at the foot of the mountain and cool at the top in summer), extreme temperatures ( The maximum temperature is 41.3℃, the minimum temperature is -4.5℃), there is a lot of rain (the average annual rainfall is about 1000 mm), the frost-free period is short (the frost-free period is about 260 days), there is hail in summer and snow in winter, and the area is above 800 meters above sea level. The season is about one month later than in the valleys below 400 meters above sea level; the scenic environment has a lot of water conservation, water-draining holes and self-overflow springs are very developed, the streams have large drops and many waterfalls; the forest coverage rate is more than 95%, and there are more than 2,000 species of flora. , there are more than 20 kinds of rare plants, and the plants grow luxuriantly; there are more than 400 kinds of wild animals, more than 10 rare animals, with diverse populations, rapid reproduction, large numbers, and complete natural ecosystems. The local farmer's proverbs, "A mountain has four seasons, and the sky is different ten miles away" and "Peach blossoms under the mountain and snow on the mountain" have become a true portrayal of the natural ecology in the mountains.
Yanziyan Waterfall Attractions
Chishui Danxia Tourist Area·Yanziyan is located in Lianghekou Town, Chishui City, Guizhou Province. The main landscape is dominated by subtropical ravine rainforest vegetation, consisting of Swallow Falls, It consists of Changshou Spring, Source of Life, Root of Life, Liantai Waterfall and other scenic spots. It is an ecological scenic spot mainly composed of primitive lush forests, and is an important part of Chishui Danxia Tourist Area.
The scenic area covers an area of ??about 5 square kilometers and is 26 kilometers away from the urban area of ??Chishui City, about a 30-minute drive. There is a sightseeing ropeway in the scenic area. The ropeway tour takes about 1-2 hours and the whole journey takes 3-4 hours to walk.
Wuzhu Peak Scenic Spot
In April 2001, Yanziyan Scenic Spot was famous for its primitive forest vegetation, miraculous Danxia landform and rare Jurassic monuments. Winning the title of National Forest Park in one fell swoop, it is another national scenic spot in China for ecological leisure tourism and popular science investigation.
The Yanzi Cave is a natural cave, about 30 meters high and 70 meters wide. It is like a fiery red stone palace, magnificent and magnificent.
What is amazing is that there are so many stone nests formed on the stone walls due to wind and rain erosion. Thousands of swallows used to live here. They ate here at sunrise and rested at sunset. It became like a home for them to come and go, and the name of Yanziyan came from this. Swallow Falls, the waterfall is 87 meters high. Because there are often swarms of swallows flying in and out of the waterfall on the stone wall in the middle of the mountain, the mountain people call it Swallow Falls.
Flowing water, accompanied by the knives of time, ruthlessly cut canyons into rows of vertical cliffs. Coupled with the unopened virgin forest, it conserves abundant water sources, thus creating The landscape of waterfalls flowing down.