Travel Notes on the Three Northwest Provinces - Colorful Danxia

10 month 11

At the turn of autumn and winter, cars drive along the Hexi Corridor. The fields along the way are either empty after harvest, or lined with withered corn stalks. From time to time, a piece of golden yellow comes into view, which is corn drying in the field.

After passing through Zhangye, we went directly to the Colorful Danxia Scenic Area.

Colorful Danxia Scenic Area is mainly located in Nijiaying Township, Linze County, 40 kilometers away from Zhangye City. "Zhangye World Geopark" is located in Nantai Village.

Outside the west gate of the scenic spot, there is a large parking lot on the left and a large-scale tourist town on the right. Hotels and restaurants are all available.

The car stopped in a small town, and according to the tour guide's request, we had a simple lunch at a Sichuan-style restaurant. Driver tour guide Xiao Peng took everyone's ID cards to the ticket office to buy tickets. During the epidemic prevention and control period, all tourist attractions now implement real-name registration and ticket purchase.

Get the scenic spot tickets and the interval sightseeing bus tickets, the driver and guide stipulate 5 You must get on the bus at the parking lot before 12:30 and go to the next attraction.

I looked at the time. We only had less than three hours in the scenic area.

Act quickly. After entering the scenic spot gate, wear a mask, have your temperature taken, line up to get on the sightseeing bus.

Zhangye Colorful Danxia Landform Group, with an average altitude of 1850 The area is about 45 kilometers long from east to west and about 10 kilometers wide from north to south. There are four main viewing points in the scenic area, connected by sightseeing buses.

Before the future, Zhangye Danxia landform had long been known but not seen. Now that I am here, I just want to see its elegance as soon as possible.

The sightseeing bus stopped at the first viewing point.

There are quite a lot of tourists at the scenic spot. I thought there would be fewer tourists if we traveled during the off-peak period after the holiday. Actually it doesn't seem to be the case. Think about it, if you miss the peak time, others also want to miss the peak time, and there are also people who are on duty during the holidays, etc. Each famous scenic spot is equally busy. It is conceivable that there will definitely be more tourists during the holiday period.

After getting off the sightseeing bus and standing in front of those colorful hills and peaks, I couldn't help but admire: It's so beautiful!

The colorful hills and peaks look like a patch of red clouds from a distance, but look colorful up close. I saw only red, white, gray, dark brown, red, dark blue, to use a cliché saying, it seemed like God had overturned the palette and scattered all the colorful paints. Use the power of nature to your heart’s content. Set against the blue sky and white clouds, the strong contrasting tones form beautiful pictures. This is the beauty of nature without any decoration, this is the miraculous carving of nature.

At this time, I felt the paleness of language. The picture in front of me could not be described by my poor language. It was the rich color of the earth.

Climb to the top of the mountain along the plank road, and as far as the eye can see, you can see a wider range of mountains stretching out. Under the blue sky, they are beautiful and colorful. There are cliffs, like knives and axes, pointing straight into the blue sky; there are surging peaks with high waves. Like a wave, heading into the distance.

I have seen many films and pictures of Zhang Ye Danxia before and was impressed by her. However, when I went to the scene and saw the real scene, I still had to be shocked by its magnificence and beauty.

Zhangye Danxia Landform is a unique complex area of ​​Danxia landform and colorful hilly landscape in China. In the mountainous and hilly area with a radius of one hundred square kilometers, thousands of red cliffs are dyed into reddish-brown and red-based red cliffs due to the action of running water or the precipitation of organic matter. Danxia is red, combined with dark green, gray and white, and is colorful. The unique shape, colorful and majestic Danxia landform shows "the color is like Wodan and the brightness is like bright clouds" The wonderful style.

Zhangye Danxia landform has been hidden in the mountains for millions of years and is rarely known to the world. Later, it was discovered and promoted, and then a national geological park was established. There are many stories here. The story of "Danxia Lao Lei" is widely circulated on the Internet.

Lao Lei is a shepherd from Nantai Village (Hongshanwan Village) in Nijiaying Township, Linze County. His experience as a shepherd gave him the opportunity to travel across dozens of kilometers of mountains and rivers. In 2000, by chance, a reporter went to Zhangye to collect news and met Lao Lei. Lao Lei told reporters that there is a colorful mountain here, and took the reporter into the colorful mountain at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. The reporter was amazed by the beautiful scenery in front of him and kept taking pictures until dark. When leaving, the reporter told Lao Lei: This is a very precious tourism resource that should be well developed and utilized. Roads can be built first to allow cars to drive in. I believe that within three years, this place will definitely become a hot spot for travel photography. Lao Lei was touched and raised his own funds. The couple relied on pickaxes, shovels and four-wheel tractors to build a 4-kilometer sightseeing road from the village entrance to the observation deck in two years. The "Linze Caiqiu Photography Villa" was opened to receive guests who came here one after another. Now it has been renamed "Danxia Laolei Farm Stay" and it is still very popular, with many photography enthusiasts from all over the country visiting here.

Gradually, through introductions from past tourists and photographers, film crews and well-known directors were attracted. The movie "The Sun Also Rises" and the TV series "Detective Detective Dee (Part 3)" both used the scenic spot as a location for location shooting. The movie "Three Guns" also designated the scenic area as one of the main locations for location shooting. After being released across the country, Danxia Scenic Area has become a tourist attraction for domestic and foreign tourists. Later, it became the Zhangye Global Geopark.

Time is limited, so I can only browse each point in a hurry, get on the sightseeing bus and rush to the next viewing point.

Follow the climbing path to the second viewing platform. The top of the mountain is a large platform, showing a wider space and more majestic colorful peaks and hills.

Here we stayed a little longer. If you don't pay attention, time passes quickly. There are still two observation decks left to visit. Another rush down the mountain and a rush ride. I didn’t dare to stop at the third viewing point. We went directly to the fourth viewing point.

After getting off the car, I saw a long queue of tourists hiking along the plank road in front of me. I looked at the time and it was obvious that I didn't have enough time to go up to the observation deck. Some scenic area workers brought hot air balloons, spread them out on the ground, and were preparing to light them. Time, time, time, I really felt helpless with the group and had to give up watching the hot air balloon release.

Perhaps, this last spot is the most beautiful. It’s time to leave some regrets.

After leaving the Danxia Scenic Area, we took a bus back. Before a Red Cliff is an antique city: Danxiakou tourist resort town. According to reports, this is the prototype and main filming location of the "Stone City" in the TV series "No One Less". It is the only cultural tourism resort town with Jiangnan charm on the Silk Road.

As the sun sets, we enter the city gate and see that it does have a certain scale inside. Small bridges, flowing water, restaurants and restaurants, and flags fluttering on the city walls seem to show the prosperity of Zhangye, an ancient silk town.

It was getting dark, so I had to swipe my card and leave without taking a closer look.

When I got in the car, it was already dark, and I couldn't see the exterior of the car. I could only see the lights of the cars on the road.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, the car entered Zhangye City and stayed at the "Hetu Hotel". Go to the hotel to check in, put away your luggage, and go out to look for restaurants. Most of the people you meet are tourists.

It's late and most restaurants are closed. Feeling tired after a day of running around, we found a noodle shop nearby and ate a bowl of noodle noodles each. It was warm and relieved us a lot, and we also tasted Zhangye's special snacks.

Zhangye, was called Ganzhou in ancient times. In the Western Han Dynasty, it was named after "the arm of Zhangye to connect the Western Regions". Ganzhou is the origin of the word "Gan" in the name of Gansu Province. It has existed since ancient times. It has the reputation of "fortress on the south of the Yangtze River" and "golden Zhangye". An ancient poem said, "If you don't look at the snow on the top of the Qilian Mountains, you mistake Zhangye for the south of the Yangtze River." It’s tomorrow’s itinerary, and it’s getting late, so I need to go to bed early. Staying in Zhangye, I don’t know the full picture of what Zhangye looks like, and I won’t go to see it anymore.