Maling River Canyon

Maling River Canyon

Malinghe Gorge National scenic spot is located in the northeast of Xingyi City, the capital of Southwest Guizhou Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. It is an important member of Xingyi National Geopark of the people's Republic of China and is known as "the first drift in China".

Malinghe gorge is a grand, strange, dangerous and beautiful valley with a width of 50-150 meters and a depth of 120-280 meters. Malinghe gorge is a large water fissure deeply cut in the orogeny. There are many waterfalls in the gorge, green bamboos hanging upside down, karst caves connected, and ancient and famous trees on both sides of the gorge. Wanfenglin scenic area has many mountains in the East and villages in the west, while wanfenghu scenic area has tens of thousands of islands. Today, Maling River canyon rafting has attracted a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists.

In February 2020, from the end of the epidemic to December 31, 2020, the scenic spot will provide free services to medical workers all over the country.

Overview of scenic spots

Introduction

Maling River Canyon is located in the northeast of the whole scenic area. It is a rift valley cut by the turbulent River and the underground. From the top to the bottom, it is a ground crack, and from the bottom to the top, it is a gutter. Maling River originates from baiguoling of Wumeng Mountain system. It is called Qingshui River in the upper reaches, and Maling River in the middle reaches because there are Maling village and Maling village on both sides. In the process of about 100 km from the river to the estuary, the drop is nearly 1000 meters, and the cutting ability is strong. 74.8 km Maling River Gorge is cut on the flat plain with an altitude of 1200 meters.

Overview of the canyon

Because the cutting speed of many tributaries on both sides of the Strait lags behind the mainstream, hundreds of waterfalls more than 100 meters high fall into the deep valley. The average width and depth of the canyon are between 200 and 400 meters. The narrowest part is only 50 meters and the deepest part is 500 meters. It is rare that the canyon is so narrow and so deep. The river water in Kasi district contains a lot of calcium carbonate, which rapidly releases carbon dioxide in the process of falling, attaching calcium carbonate to the cliff. With the passage of time, the material of calcium carbonate becomes thicker and thicker, and the area becomes larger and larger. Therefore, a large-scale and majestic group of calcified waterfalls has been bred on the two walls of the canyon. On the cliff of ZhangGu in Tianxing Gallery scenic area alone, there is a calcified waterfall with an area of more than 300000 square kilometers, interwoven with the majestic waterfall peak forest, forming a very rare landscape. From top to bottom, Malinghe Canyon can also be divided into donglang hot spring, colorful corridor, Tianxing gallery and zhaojiadu scenic spot.

Scenic map

Features of scenic spots

Characteristic experience

In 1998, the first China International kayaking competition was held in Maling River Canyon. The whole course of Maling River drifting is more than 50 kilometers. It has gone through more than 80 dangerous beaches, more than 70 deep pools and more than 60 bays. During this period, you can feel the pleasure of "rushing into YEMA Beach", "jumping over fierce tiger", "jumping over rhinoceros ridge", "rushing through Longteng pass", "entering happiness Lake" and "reaching the shore of HONGPU waterfall".

On November 26, 2005, the first open trial of the national canoe slalom preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was held in Malinghe gorge, and the "foundation laying ceremony of the athletes' apartment of China National Canoe Training Base" was held in Malinghe gorge park. Malinghe gorge was officially used as the "national Canoe Training base".

Characteristic combination

Malinghe Canyon is divided into four sections.

The first section is Qingshui River rafting. From Qingshui River Bridge to Maling ancient bridge, it is 26 km, with a drop of 108 meters. It takes two or three hours, including jiudaomen, shibawan and shibadaotan. Because it is upstream, it has the least pollution and the best water quality. In the process of drifting, you have to pass through the "nine gate corridor", "colorful corridor", "Pearl gorge" and other scenic spots. The beach is not very urgent, and it is a gentle type. When you break through the rough sea, you can appreciate all kinds of experiences in your life.

The second section is from Maling ancient bridge to Baili Gallery scenic area. It is about 14 kilometers long and takes more than an hour. There are few rapids. The scenery on both sides is fair. There are waterfalls, sheep, ancient stone bridge and so on. It is suitable for the elderly and children to drift. It is a leisure type. In the process of drifting, you have to pass through such scenic spots as "YEMA Beach", "Menghu bank", "grotto cliff" and "Huifeng cliff". You can hear the legend of "wooden bridge" and "Wulong Kaihe".

The third section starts from Tianxing Gallery scenic spot and ends at zhaojiadu bridge, with a total length of about 22 kilometers. The scenery on both sides of the canyon is excellent, and the river drop is large, which is thrilling and exciting.

The fourth section, from zhaojiadu to Wanfeng Lake, is the most challenging and dangerous section with the largest drop and the most dangerous beaches. Now, except for professional rafters, it is not open to ordinary tourists. It is an adventure type.

Characteristic landscape

The total area of the scenic spot is 450 square kilometers. It is a scenic spot with the landscape characteristics of Wanfeng, Qiandao, Baibao, Qigu and the magical ground seam of colorful paintings. There are many cultural relics and rich ethnic customs in the scenic area. The climate is mild and humid, with an average annual temperature of 15 ℃ ~ 18 ℃. The four seasons are like spring, and the temperature difference between day and night is small. It is a resort for people to seek seclusion, sightseeing, visiting ancient times, exploring, summer vacation and leisure.

Malinghe gorge is characterized by the cracks in the ground, the flying waterfalls and the wall hanging of calcium carbonate. Malinghe gorge is 74.8 kilometers long, 50-150 meters wide, 120-280 meters deep and 200 meters below the ground.

Due to the effect of "thousands of springs return to the valley and streams trace erosion", a variety of gorge wonders are bred. The first is that the two walls of the canyon breed large-scale, magnificent and scattered calcified rocks, forming a unique rock waterfall; the second is that there are more than 100 waterfalls in the scenic area, including more than 20 waterfalls within 1.7 km of Tianxing Gallery, such as Wanma roaring waterfall, Pearl Waterfall, intermittent wudiebao waterfall, etc. the height of the waterfall is 120-170 meters, the width of the waterfall is 5-100 meters, as strong as the gap of the Milky way, and as soft as Niaona; Third, there are many little-known water curtain caves.

When you visit Maling River Canyon, you will feel the infinite magic of nature. The canyon is deep and secluded, and the plank road climbs the cliff. It's winding and fascinating. It's like walking along the road, one step at a time, and the scenery is different. "The clouds and rocks are more strange than the fantastic paintings. Poetry is the only way to write marvels. Indeed, Malinghe Canyon is a poem in an empty mountain.

Malinghe Gorge Scenic Spot is rich in natural landscape, as well as other places of interest. There are 240 million years ago Mesozoic Triassic "Guizhou dragon" fossil group, 100 million years earlier than dinosaur egg fossil; there are "Maomao cave" and "zhangkou cave" ancient activity sites; there are Han tomb group, Liu's manor, he Yingqin's former residence and other cultural landscapes; there are Chinese workers and peasants During the long march of the Red Army, Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou also left footprints in the battle.

Due to the rich resources, various types, high grade and unique characteristics of Malinghe Gorge Scenic Spot, and relying on Xingyi City, the traffic, accommodation, communication and other convenient conditions, Malinghe Gorge Scenic Spot stands out in the western tourism scenic spot and is favored by Chinese and foreign tourists.

The value of scenic spots

The karst peak forest in Yunnan Guizhou Plateau is generally poorly developed, and the peak forest landscape with ornamental value is even rarer. However, the nahuiba peak forest basin in Xingyi is magnificent, large-scale and beautiful, ranking second to none in the plateau karst area. Malinghe Gorge Scenic Area is a typical and perfect miniature of the karst scenery in Yunnan Guizhou Plateau, including Malinghe gorge, Wanfenglin, Wanfenglin Wanfeng Lake has three parts.

The central scenic spot is 6 kilometers away from Xingyi City, and is located at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. There are more than 30 waterfalls in the scenic spot. Some of them are as strong as the Milky Way gap, and some are as weak as graceful fairies. The waterfalls fall from the sky, flying pearls and jade, and the rainbows in the sun, reflecting the deep valley and secluded environment, making them like human beings and fairies. In the scenic area, due to the effect of "thousands of springs return to ravines and streams dissolve and turbid", the carbon and calcium deposits on the two walls of the valley of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone are in various forms, like birds and animals, and moistened by waterfalls and fog.

Wanfeng forest scenic area is composed of thousands of strange peaks and beautiful rocks, stretching for hundreds of kilometers. With its grand momentum, perfect overall shape, dense and strange peaks, Wanfeng forest scenic area is highly praised by Chinese and foreign tourists. It is divided into two major scenic spots, East and West peak forest, with different sceneries, which are called nature's water painting and natural bonsai respectively.

The former residence of he Yingqin, the former military Minister of the national government, and the former residence of General Wang Wenhua, the commander-in-chief of the French garrison of the Northern Expedition army are all located in the peak forest. Xu Xiake, a famous geographer and tourist in the Ming Dynasty, once went to Xingyi twice to investigate Wanfeng forest and gave it a high evaluation. He wrote a poem: "there are so many famous mountains in the world, only here is the peak forest; the steep peaks are separated from each other, and there are wide peaks, and there are different forests and bamboo shoots."

In the scenic area, mountains, countryside, rivers, villages and karst caves are interwoven into a beautiful brocade of Buyi Nationality. It is a rare pure land in the world, and a good place for your rural tourism, horse riding tourism, tent camping and leisure vacation.

Wanfeng Lake is an artificial lake pearl on the Yunnan Guizhou Plateau. On both sides of the lake, there are Miao, Buyi and other ethnic minorities with rich customs. Thousands of islands and peninsulas are distributed in the lake, forming a natural landscape bonsai.

In the lake area, bamboo rafts and cruise ships shuttle among them, egrets and red gulls fly up and down; the stone forest on the water, Buyi ancient village, peak forest landscape and canyon cliff complement each other, making it a good place for leisure and vacation.

Characteristic landform

Yunnan Guizhou Plateau is the most widely distributed area of karst landform in the world

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