Northwest China (2): How beautiful is the colorful Danxia? This graphic route is for you to understand.

Compared with Jiayuguan, Zhangye's humanities are thicker.

Zhangye, formerly known as Ganzhou, is one of the four counties in Hexi. It has been an important town of the 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 Zhang Ye's special food "Fried Cannons".

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

However, this paper focuses on 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 nice to live in the Youth Travel Service. It's easy to form a team and charter four people to Danxia for 200 yuan.

Four people didn't know each other before getting on the bus, and each looked at each other with something on his mind.

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

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

As travelers from all corners of the country, we are still like-minded, just like love at first sight.

It's getting brighter and foggy outside the window.

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

Many tourists are holding flags and wearing hats, as if they were taking part in the sports meeting.

/kloc-in the northwest of October, it is blue-gray and cold in the morning.

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 think 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, etc., with elegant names such as colorful clouds, colorful fairyland and colorful fairy terrace, are actually easily confused, and traffic vehicles in scenic spots do not report to the station. There are also some articles on the Internet, including scenic spots and observation platforms.

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

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

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

The following pictures and texts, I will explain them according to my own walking route and order. 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 out, I have to hurry up the mountain.

No.4 observation deck is the closest observation deck to the north gate, and it can be reached within walking distance.

After bidding farewell to the three people in the same car, I began to walk alone.

Observation Deck 4 is the most popular observation deck.

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

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

The stage is impregnable and difficult to move, which reminds people of the dammed lake.

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

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

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

Even if you just look at it 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 colorful gray.

There is still fog on the mountain. Under the backlight, it is necessary to use both eyes and brains to see this colorful mountain on the spot.

Look hard first, look in your eyes, turn the red one into red, the yellow one into yellow, and the white one into white.

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

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

If you are lazy, look at these programs, look at-

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

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

Anyway, the painting style of nature is very abstract. You can see a leopard in a pipe, but you can also be quite picky.

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

Get on the bus from observation deck 4, drive at the foot of seven-color screen, and arrive at observation deck 2 stop.

Then walk back 500 meters, and you will find observation deck 3.

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

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

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

The seven-color screen really stands like a screen, and the mountain at the foot of the mountain folds and undulates 1200m.

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

I can see clearly because I am too close to the mountain.

Taking a partial composition and cutting it into squares is also a decorative painting with visual pleasure.

Let's go back to Observation Deck No.2, Colorful Fairy Deck.

This is a viewing platform suitable for watching the sunset, but I came at a bad time.

In retrospect, I only remember that this observation deck was very big and high.

In front of this syncline folded rock stratum, the color is squeezed out by the terrain, and the color is distorted into the terrain. We cannot but admire the strength 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.

Walking 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 value is abnormal.

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

I don't think about it anymore

They are the real aborigines of the earth who have gone through vicissitudes of life, and I am just a passer-by with a grain of salt.

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

The magnificent chapter of the earth, on this observation deck, unfolds in a 360-degree panorama.

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

But I think it's more like the 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.

Lateral area, the northeast of the observation deck, is vast, with layers of overlapping stripes, like oblique colored cloth. With the ups and downs of the mountain, it stretches out magnificently.

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

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

Moreover, the density is mutual, the combination is orderly, and it has a sense of rhythm and layering.

Like a sleeping beauty in brocade.

Imagine 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.

In any case, this is a visual feast for all ages in Xian Yi.

Looking around, there is little green.

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

I have learned that Gan Kun is great, but I still pity every grass and tree.

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

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

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

She lacks the green of Danxia in the south, but she has a brilliant personality.

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

It's a long drive from observation deck 1 to observation deck 5.

Of course, it was beautiful all the way, but it was difficult to take pictures in a fully enclosed carriage.

The ecology of Danxia in Zhangye is very fragile.

Now almost all the Danxia stones are closed, and tourists are not allowed to step on them.

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

After hundreds of millions of years of tectonic movement and years of weathering and corrosion, it has formed a round hilly landform, such as being in 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 easy to weather.

There are tips everywhere in the scenic spot. It's okay to cross and trample, as if there is a minefield ahead.

After the whole trip, I basically walked on the plank road, and my shoes were not stained with mud.

Of course, I understand and agree with such protection.

Zhang Ye Danxia is beautiful. I'm glad you came.

Here, the essence of the northwest landform is concentrated, such as the morning dew hibiscus, just like the oriental dress; Here tells the story of land shortage in the old society, just like the scene of the seas running dry and the rocks crumbling.

However, such beauty still needs our imagination, and the camera can't restore the beauty 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 selfies and have fun, and give up the obsession of asking for nature.

Sightseeing, in the final analysis, is to reflect on the heart and turn the mountain into my feelings. Seeing the mountain is not a mountain, but it can be enjoyable.

1, with a zoom lens, preferably a "one mirror goes all over the world" 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 the sunset 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 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 that case, it is best to stay in a nearby hotel.

4. If the time is particularly tight, I suggest only watching Shanshuitai 4 and Shanshuitai 1.

Transportation: There is a shuttle bus from Zhangye West Bus Station to Danxia Park (West Gate), and the fare is 15 yuan. Operating shifts are 9: 00-1 hour,12: 00, 15:30 and 16:30 respectively.

Tickets: adult tickets (including sightseeing bus): 74 yuan; Tickets for the elderly/children (including sightseeing bus): 47 yuan; Sightseeing bus: 20 yuan;

Time: 06: 30-18: 00 (March 01-April 0 10)

Storage: The visitor center is great. Baggage can be stored, and eating is also the city price.

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