Zhangye, known as Ganzhou in ancient times, is one of the four counties in Hexi. It has been an important town of Silk Road since ancient times.

During the day, I visited the Great Buddha Temple and Zhangye Wetland Park.

In the evening, I visited the ancient city night market and tasted Zhangye's special food "Fried Cannons".

It's a pleasure to feel the humanistic customs of an ancient city in the western regions in one day.

However, the focus of this paper is the pure natural landscape: Zhangye Danxia National Geopark.

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The next day, it was dawn.

The chartered bus to Danxia is waiting for us downstairs.

It's good to live in a youth travel service. It's easy to form a team and charter four people to Danxia and 200 yuan.

The four people didn't know each other before getting on the bus, and they looked at each other with their own worries.

After getting on the bus, someone tried to break the silence, asking and answering one sentence, and later, asking and answering three sentences and asking a question.

Along the way, the cars were on both sides, the passengers were pitching and swaying, and they were talking and laughing.

Being travelers from all over the world, we are like-minded in the end, just like seeing each other at first sight.

As the sky gets brighter, the window is foggy.

At the north gate of the scenic spot, we got off the bus and found many buses parked around.

Many tourists hold flags and wear hats, as if they were taking part in the sports meeting.

In the northwest of October, the morning is blue-gray and cold.

Looking around, I thought, how can there be colorful?

Buy tickets with the crowd, enter the door with the crowd, and get on the scenic bus with the crowd.

Even if you are thinking while walking, you won't get lost, just follow.

However, if you want to walk alone, you need to teach yourself.

Tickets, guide maps, observation decks, and so on, with the elegant names of colorful clouds, colorful fairyland, colorful fairy terrace, are actually easy to be confused, and traffic vehicles in scenic spots don't report stops. There are also some articles on the Internet, including the scenic spots and observation decks.

In short, it is difficult to learn without a teacher.

In order to let readers know the route of the scenic spot, Lao Zheng made some road maps.

Let's "fly into the air" to overlook this scenic spot and get a general understanding:

The following pictures and texts, I will explain according to my own walking route and order, and once again, I entered from the north gate!

Hey, Lao Zheng, why don't you travel in the order of stops? The first stop is observation deck 4?

I have to explain:

Because I want to shoot the sunrise, and now the sun is coming out, I have to hurry up the mountain.

The observation deck No.4 is the closest observation deck to the north gate, and it's just a walk away.

Say goodbye to the three people in the same car, and I began to walk alone.

No.4 observation deck is the most popular observation deck.

Since five o'clock in the morning, the small landscape platform has been crowded with people. After being crowded, the crowd did not move.

Everyone is holding a mobile phone, staring at the sunrise in the mobile phone and forgetting the real sunrise.

The stage is impregnable, and the stage is difficult to move, which is reminiscent of the barrier lake.

I looked up in despair, worried that I couldn't get on and was trampled on.

Sadly, after the sun came out, it was just a backlight for this colorful mountain.

This will test the photography skills of tourists who come with cameras-your.

Even if you just come with your eyes, you can't see clearly how beautiful this colorful mountain is because of the backlight.

If you are unfortunately color blind or weak, I guarantee that what you see will be a colorful gray.

There is still fog in the mountains, and with the backlight, it takes both eyes and brains to see this colorful mountain on the spot.

Look hard first, look in your eyes, and make the red one redder, the yellow one yellower and the white one whiter.

Use your imagination again, like a knife? Like fire? Like a chopping board? Or like meat on a chopping board?

Finally, use the brain Ps to synthesize a colorful impression and keep it in your mind.

If you are lazy, go over these procedures and just watch-

Then, you will sigh "so much", or simply complain that those promotional photos are all "fake".

When shooting, I suggest avoiding the highlights of the sky and taking local composition with telephoto.

Anyway, nature's painting style is very abstract. You can see a leopard in a tube, but you can also rather critical.

Cut it into a square and print it out, which is an abstract decorative painting.

Get on the bus from observation deck No.4, drive at the foot of the seven-color screen and reach the stop of observation deck No.2.

Then walk back 500 meters, and you will find observation deck No.3.

Many people don't want to go back because they have to go back, which leads to this observation deck, which is pitiful.

In fact, I think this seven-color screen is very shocking and has a "National Geographic" style!

You have a feeling that you don't know where you are, especially in the western United States. Or in central Australia?

Seven-color screen, it really stands like a screen, and the mountain folds at the foot of the mountain are undulating 1200 meters.

Like a huge centipede wearing bell-bottoms again, the fabric pattern of this bell-bottoms should also be the kind with national characteristics.

Because I am too close to the mountain, I can see it clearly.

It is also a visually pleasing decorative painting to take a partial composition and cut it into a square.

Let's go back to observation deck no.2, colorful fairy terrace.

This is an observation deck suitable for watching the sunset, but I came at a bad time.

In retrospect, I only remember that this observation deck was quite large and high.

In front of this syncline folded rock layer, the terrain squeezes out colors, and the colors are distorted into terrain, so we must not admire the power and beauty of nature.

It has a nice name "Return to the Sail at dusk". It is said that it is like a sail bulging in the sea against the setting sun.

Strolling here, you can watch the texture of rock structure very closely, and even touch it.

Bare and barren sandstone mudstone contains a lot of minerals that are not suitable for plant growth, and its pH is abnormal.

I still can't understand the formation principle of Zhang Ye's Danxia after reading so much information.

I don't think about it anymore.

They are the real aborigines of the earth who have gone through the seas and rocks, and I am just a dubious passer-by.

Take a bus to observation deck # 1, which has the largest area and the most landscapes, so you can spend more time enjoying it.

The gorgeous chapter of the earth, on this observation deck, is unfolded in a 360-degree panoramic view.

In the southwest of the observation deck, there are layers of Danxia rocks, which are called "scallops", named after their shapes like shells.

But I think it's more like waves lapping on the shore, turning up a piece of white spray, and then time "clicks" and everything freezes.

And you are still alive, how lucky you are.

The northeast side of the observation deck has a vast area and layers of overlapping stripes, which are like colored cloth laid obliquely. With the ups and downs of the mountain, it stretches and spreads with great momentum.

Danxia landform is naturally colored, but colored is not necessarily colorful.

In addition to red, Zhang Ye's Danxia also includes: latosolic red, grayish brown, indigo, dark green, purplish blue, khaki and dark purple.

And the density is mutual, the combination is orderly, and it is very rhythmic and layered.

Just like a sleeping beauty in brocade.

Picture what? I can't think of anything to describe it.

The older person next to him said that it was like a plate of braised pork;

Younger people say it's like a thousand layers of cake.

Anyway, it's a visual feast for both Chinese and Western styles, and Xian Yi, young and old.

As far as the eye can see, there is very little green.

This place belongs to the northwest arid climate zone, and the natural vegetation belongs to the temperate desert vegetation, with relatively monotonous species, and the ultra-arid shrubs and halophytes are relatively widely distributed.

I have learned that Gan Kun is great, but I still pity the grass and trees.

Danxia landform in the south has the same characteristics as Danshan, green forest and clear water.

However, Zhang Ye Danxia, who lives in the arid area of northwest China, has a unique pride.

She is less surrounded by the clear water of Danxia in the south, but more magnificent;

She lacks the greenery of Danxia in the south, but she has a splendid character.

It is really the only one in the Danxia landform in China!

It took a long time to drive from observation deck 1 to observation deck 5.

Of course, it's beautiful along the way, but it's difficult to take pictures in the fully enclosed carriage.

The ecology of Danxia in Zhangye is very fragile.

Now almost all Danxia rocks are enclosed and tourists are not allowed to trample on them.

Therefore, most of the loop lines are empty, which adds desolation.

It took hundreds of millions of years of tectonic movement and years of weathering and corrosion to form a round hilly landscape, such as being on a sci-fi alien planet.

Sometimes, I feel more like a natural wound, torn flesh, revealing bloody bones and muscles.

The world has realized that such a landscape feast is rare in the world, so colorful, but it is easy to weather.

There are tips everywhere in the scenic spot, and it is fine to cross the trampling, as if there is a minefield ahead.

The whole trip down, basically walking on the plank road, shoes can not be stained with mud.

Of course, I understand and agree with such protection.

Zhang Ye Danxia is beautiful, glad you came.

Here, the essence of the landform in the northwest is concentrated, such as the morning dew hibiscus, which is like an oriental dress; Here tells the story of the old days and the shortage of land, just like the scene where the seas run dry and the rocks crumble.

However, such beauty still needs our imagination, and the camera is unable to restore the beauty that you want to express in your heart.

I saw an old photographer, using a Mamiya medium format camera and various professional filters, constantly debugging and shaking his head.

Then take a selfie and have fun, and give up the obsession of asking for it from nature.

Sightseeing, after all, is to reflect on the heart, turn the mountain into my feelings, see the mountain is not a mountain, and you can enjoy yourself when you see the mountain.

1, with a zoom lens, preferably a "one-shot" lens.

2. If I go to colorful Danxia again, I will choose to go at noon, because the whole scenic spot is actually more suitable for shooting sunsets because of the direction of the mountain. At sunset, the golden afterglow contrasts with the color of Danxia itself, which can form rich light and shadow with alternating light and shade.

3. Tickets for scenic spots are subject to the "two-day system", that is, you can watch the sunset on the first day and still enter the scenic spot to watch the sunrise on the second day. You only need to pay for the ticket to 20 yuan. Explain to the staff in advance that the staff will take your fingerprint information so that you can enter the park the next day.

Of course, in this way, it is best to stay in a nearby hostel.

4. If time is particularly tight, I suggest watching only Landscape Station 4 and 1 Landscape Station.

Transportation: There is a shuttle bus from Zhangye West Bus Station to Danxia Park (West Gate), and the fare is 15 yuan. The operating frequency is 9: 00-1 2: 00 every1hour, 15:30 and 16:30 respectively.

Tickets: adult tickets (including sightseeing bus): 74 yuan; Senior citizen/child ticket (including sightseeing bus): 47 yuan; Sightseeing bus: 20 yuan;

Time: 06: 30-18: 00 (March 0 1 day-April 0 10)

Storage: The visitor center is great. It can store luggage, and eating is also the downtown price.

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