Goodbye Qinggan | Life is also a journey

The last time I left Qinghai, I drank a bowl of yogurt and came back with regrets.

But this time, I didn’t have another bowl, because this trip has no regrets for me.

Besides, it’s a pity that only Sixth Brother is left unmarried!

 

Have you ever seen the colorful clouds filling the sky?

If you haven’t seen it, go and look for Danxia in Zhangye.

"Danxia holds the bright moon, and the Chinese star emerges from the clouds."

This poem is the origin of Danxia's name.

Zhangye Danxia in the Qilian Mountains is just like this. The ancient red sedimentary rocks are exposed on the ground, and the interlayers of sediments are like fairy ribbons.

Maybe people who study geography are not very interested in graphic scenic spots.

The washing of rain makes the red color always new.

The shallow ravines tell the story of flowing water.

 

Danxia in Zhangye has a better name: "Colorful Hills".

 

Danxia landform (Danxia landform) is a landform with steep slopes that develops mainly continental red beds (which may include non-terrestrial interlayers) (the age of the red beds is not limited).

 

The colorful "Danxia" in Zhangye is not actually a Danxia landform. Because it lacks an important feature of Danxia - steep slopes.

 

Although Colorful "Danxia" and Binggou Danxia were developed on the same red layer, because the rock formations here are located in the inclined part of the fold belt, they are prone to collapse, and the rock masses are mostly siltstone and mudstone, and are more prone to erosion and weathering. Even, so the final result is a gentle and round hilly landform.

 

Because in addition to red, these rock formations are also mixed with gray, white, green, orange, yellow and other colors, like a ribbon dissolved on the undulating ground, geologists gave them an appropriate name: color hills.

 

If Danxia is damaged, it will take the earth 60 years of hard work to repair it. The method of repair is like the external erosion caused by cramping and peeling off the skin, making the surface smooth and repairing it as before.

 

Loose gravel piles up from your feet to the end of the sky, like the sunset and the tassels of the Yugur people.

 

"Every morning and evening, the colorful clouds rise from the valley. They are as bright as the rosy clouds."

 

Danxia is a nature with magical power, giving the land of China the most special affection. She is the brightest red in China, like a seal handed down from generation to generation from the sky toward the earth that gave birth to us. Danxia landform is a type of landform discovered and named entirely by Chinese scholars. What is even more surprising is that the area where this red landform is most widely distributed on the entire earth is the country that loves red the most: China.

The consequences of losing your selfie stand!

 

 

The 2,500-kilometer Qinggan Ring Road has come to an end.

 

Day1 Kumbum Monastery—the birthplace of Tsongkhapa, the Gelug Sect of Tibetan Buddhism

Day2 Xining—Qinghai Lake—Chaka Salt Field—Delingha

Day3 Delingha—Daqaidan Emerald Lake—G315—Dongtai Jinair Lake—Daqaidan

Day4 Dachaidan—Yangguan—Dunhuang

Day5 Mogao Grottoes—Mingsha Mountain Crescent Spring

Day6 Dunhuang—Zhangye Colorful Danxia and Colorful Hills—Menyuan Hui Autonomous County

Day7 Menyuan Hui Autonomous County—Xining to Lhasa

 

Brother Six basically didn’t let me drive this way, and it was his first time traveling like this.

Just because of my WeChat message, I accompanied me on my journey.

Along the way, we passed through rugged mountain roads and high-altitude passes.

Walk through the endless green and bare Gobi desert.

There is scorching sun, but also heavy rain and darkness.

No journey is smooth sailing.

Highways without signals have become the norm. The slightest fear during the journey always reminds me of longing for the distance.

You must be careful and careful again.

 

 

Don't listen to the sound of beating leaves in the forest, why not scream and walk slowly. The bamboo stick and mango shoes beat the horse , who is afraid? A coop of mist and rain will last a lifetime.

The steep spring breeze blows away the drunkenness, it is slightly cold, but the mountain tops are shining slantingly. Looking back at the desolate place where I came from, there was neither wind, rain nor sunshine.

This is where your trip to Tibet begins.