It's worth a visit! There are 99 Yellow River bays in the world, the most beautiful of which is Gankun Bay.

Small landscapes are sometimes tricky and beautiful, but even the most advanced cameras can't produce shocking effects on the landscapes described by HTC.

This is the case in Gankun Bay, although this is my second visit. This time I came to Gankun Bay Scenic Area, which made me know more about it.

In the 68km reach flowing through Yanchuan area, the Yellow River has formed five turning bays-Wowan, Yanshui Bay, Fusi Bay, Gankun Bay and Qingshui Bay, which are the five giant bays in Yanchuan Yellow River snake group in Qin Jin Canyon. These five huge Dawans are strange and magnificent, and they are geological wonders made in the sky. In 2005, they were approved by the Ministry of Land and Resources as "Yellow River Snake Qu National Geopark" and named as one of the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Canyon" in China by China Geography magazine.

The scenic spot is more than 50 kilometers away from Yanchuan county, which is more than an hour's journey. Soon after leaving the county seat, the car was driving in the gully of the Loess Plateau. It was also in geological museum that I knew what ditches, mounds, terraces and promontories were, and all kinds of landforms were found here.

So if you want to know anything, it's good to go to the museum.

The museum shows the reasons for the formation of serpentine landform in the whole Yellow River, which makes me know that there are two kinds of serpentine: free serpentine and embedded serpentine. What I saw in Bayinbuluke last year was a free serpentine formed on the gentle grassland, and the Shanxi-Shaanxi Grand Canyon belongs to an embedded serpentine formed by river cutting rocks.

In addition to geological display, there is also an introduction to human history. Only then did I understand why Helian Bobo's tomb is on the roadside here: it has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

We went to Qingshui Bay first, but didn't stop at Zhengdong Memorial Hall. It is said that there is a stone mill where Chairman Mao sits and thinks about state affairs.

There are many scenic spots in Clear Water Bay. After entering the first line of the Yellow River, the tour guide guided us to watch the "Dragon Play Pearl". Nine ridges converge into a pool in the center below, and there is a convex circle beside the pool.

To my surprise, the story of "Qingshui Yamen" comes from here, and there is an antique building group below. The tour guide said that this is the original site of Qingshui County. There is also a ferry-Qingshuiguan. According to the county records, it was the ferry here eleven years ago in Qing Daoguang.

Here, we have been looking for a place where we can take a panoramic view of Qingshui Bay, and we have also found several places where we can take a panoramic view with a wide-angle lens of a mobile phone. Here, it is a place to compete for photographic equipment. We have colleagues from the Photography Association to show their talents. My pictures are all taken with the wide-angle lens of my own Huawei mobile phone, which is not bad.

The Great Bay formed by the Yellow River is wrapped around the middle "island" (actually a peninsula leading to the opposite Shanxi Province), which looks like a big straw hat from a distance. Looking up, the fields on the island are like petals, which are pleasing to the eye.

Qingshuiguan is the gateway, so there are many ruins of Guanxiang City Wall. A new wall has been built in the scenic spot. Walking down the city wall, you can see many stone forests, some like lions and some like camels. Look carefully, it looks natural and vivid.

There are 99 Yellow River bays in the world, the most beautiful of which is Gankun Bay.

There are three scenic spots in Gankun Bay. The first one is the Gankun Pavilion, and two lines of characters are engraved on the pillars of the pavilion: "Heaven and earth make Gankun Bay, and Emperor Xi deduces Tai Chi map". It is said that Fuxi's ancestors looked up at astronomical geography in Gankun Bay and invented the theory of Yin and Yang of Taiji Bagua.

Walking down the steps, I saw the magnificent and shocking Gankun Bay all the way. The Yellow River bends in nine twists and eighteen turns, and the vast and desolate Yellow River passes all the way. Suddenly, a big bend made a sharp turn here and a huge circle appeared. Compared with Clear Water Bay, it is more spectacular here.

Staring at the heavens and the earth, the big island in the river naturally forms the shape of a fish of yin and yang, with mountains as yang and water as yin, which explains the "yin" and "yang" in the eight diagrams.

Go to the bottom and take a picture to open it. The wide-angle lens of the mobile phone can't take a panoramic view, but it's good to take a panoramic view.

This will test your photography skills.

I didn't go to the second scenic spot Although there was a glass enclosure, I personally felt that the viewing position was not very good and went directly to the third scenic spot.

I feel the best about the third scenic spot, and it is better to take pictures from this position, that is, I can take pictures of the whole Gankun Bay without a wide-angle lens. Looking at the momentum of mountains and rivers from here, the lofty spirit of Chinese children arises spontaneously.

There is a "source of life" next to it. Look at the picture and realize the name by yourself. The protruding rock is called Eagle Mouth Cliff, which really looks like an eagle's mouth.

There are steps to go down, but I didn't go down, so I went straight up. There is a "giant snake guarding the island". It is said that when local farmers dug mountains to get stones, they found that the stones looked like a big snake and looked at the "river continent". This is an auspicious thing. Some people will put coins in their prayers.

Leaving Gankun Bay Scenic Area and driving in ravines and ravines, I suddenly feel that this is like the dense wrinkles on people's faces, giving people a sense of wordless vicissitudes. The beauty of northern Shaanxi is different from that of Jiangnan and northern Shaanxi. It is spectacular, vigorous and masculine.

Only on this plateau, only by the river, can we feel this great beauty.

Due to the itinerary, I didn't go to many scenic spots, such as Huifengzhai, the Memorial Hall of the Crusade Revolution, Qingshui Yamen, the plank road of the Yellow River, the blessing of Nuwa, the folk museum of Panpan, and the Millennium ancient kiln. Save them for next time.

The other three bays, Vortex Bay, Salt Water Bay and Forsyth Bay, have not been fully opened, so you can come again if you have the opportunity.

Reminder: According to the choice of scenic spots, tickets range from 60 yuan to 80 yuan. It is convenient to eat and live here. In addition to the resort hotels in the scenic spots, there are many farmhouses along the road, and all of them can eat the special food of Yanchuan. It tastes good, but it's a little salty. In addition, the latitude here is high, and the temperature shows 26 in the sun at noon. Pay attention to sun protection.

Author: Cloud and water end in the south