Why can Yuntai Mountain be so awesome? First of all, Yuntai Mountain is indeed rich in materials. Located in Taihang Mountain, there are green mountains and green waters, especially water, which is rare in the Central Plains. It was once called Little Jiuzhaigou. Perhaps water resources are not a bright spot in the south, but in the Central Plains, it is definitely the most attractive attraction for tourists. Yuntai Mountain is not only beautiful in water, but also has spectacular Taihang Mountain, unique landscape of Hongshi Canyon, and records the vicissitudes of geological landforms. Secondly, the tourism construction of Yuntai Mountain is perfect. Yuntai Mountain, with its late development and high tourist facilities, gives people the impression that it basically applies Jiuzhaigou's tourism model, but some places are even more perfect than Jiuzhaigou. Peak season tickets 150 yuan, 60 yuan scenic bus tickets are now more than 300 million. There is another key point. Yuntai Mountain has great publicity. There are not only advertisements in Henan province, but also subway stations in Beishangguang, tourism promotion conferences all over the country and even abroad. Yuntai Mountain can be seen everywhere. Under the fame, what about Yuntai Mountain? Come with me to visit Yuntai Mountain. First of all, I declare that all the photos of Yuntai Mountain are from mobile phones, because my camera was accidentally killed on Songshan Mountain, and the landscape effect was 40% off.
To tell the truth, with the dazzling aura of Yuntai Mountain and the mentality of Chinese people, passing by is not to be missed. Yuntai Mountain is a little nervous after playing in one day, and has more time to play in two days. You can easily visit eight of the scenic spots in one and a half days.
Yuntai Mountain includes eleven scenic spots, such as Quanpu Gorge, Tanpu Gorge, Macaque Valley, Hongshi Gorge, Cornus officinalis Peak, Zifang Lake, Wanshan Temple, Baijiayan, Diecai Cave, Qinglong Gorge and Linfeng Gorge. Baijiayan has not been opened to the outside world. Qinglong Gorge and Linfeng Gorge are scenic spots with additional tickets and lack of public transportation, so ordinary tourists only remove Baijiayan, Qinglong Gorge and Linfeng Gorge.
We arrived at the gate of the scenic spot at noon. After settling down, we visited Macaque Valley, Tanpu Gorge and Quanpu Gorge by bus. The fingerprints of Yuntai Mountain were registered and checked. Every scenic spot should be checked for fingerprints. The scenic spots are far apart, so we have to take the environmental bus. The three scenic spots of Monkey Valley, Tanpu Gorge and Quanpu Gorge were signed in with a ticket and played for at least one afternoon.
Taihang Mountain Macaque Valley is a national macaque nature reserve. The road down the mountain is circular and can be completed in an hour.
Although it is a national nature reserve, it is less likely to see wild macaques. What you see is the macaque in the cage, although the name of the cage has been changed to the macaque rescue point.
The scenery of Monkey Valley is average. If you climb to the top of the mountain in time, you can watch a monkey show, but it is not much different from the monkey show in the street. It is not very attractive. Monkey Valley is one of the eleven scenic spots, but it's really just so-so. There used to be a small geological museum in Monkey Valley, which was very small and hidden, and its contents lacked visibility.
Tanzhe Gorge, with a total length of 2 kilometers, is known as three steps and one spring, five steps and one waterfall, and ten steps and one pool. It used to be called Xiaozhaigou, which means Little Jiuzhaigou, but for those who have seen Jiuzhaigou, they can only laugh it off. The water in Tanzhe Gorge can't be compared with that in Jiuzhaigou, even with many water-rich scenic spots in the south, but in the water-deficient Central Plains, Tanzhe Gorge is really a good place to cool off and play with water.
Most waterfalls in Tanzhe Gorge are of this grade. I don't know if this can be called a waterfall. It is said that Tanzhe Gorge is also known as "the first beautiful water in China", and I totally disagree.
On the contrary, the local rocks are very distinctive. They are all layered, like books, with broken wrists, which are the marks left by 2.5 billion years of vicissitudes.
Three steps and one spring is a bit exaggerated, but there are still many springs in Tanpu Gorge. The fountain of youth is crowded with people who draw water. The spring water here is really cold and sweet.
The end of Tanzhe Gorge is a huge U-shaped valley. For 2.6 million years, due to the lateral erosion, excavation, dissolution and gravity collapse of surface water and groundwater, it has formed an urn shape. Taihang Mountain is very spectacular. People say that Taihang Mountain has left its most beautiful part in Henan, and Yuntai Mountain is one of them.
Tanzhe Gorge and Quanpu Gorge are separated by 100 meters. Both these canyons are famous for their water. Quanpu Gorge is 3 kilometers long, and you can take a battery car more than 1 km ahead. The tour takes about two and a half hours.
Springs, waterfalls and gorges are deep and beautiful, and the scenery is good.
Small fish swim among aquatic plants.
It is very pleasant to drink a sweet mountain spring when you are thirsty.
Deep valleys and clear water, such beautiful scenery is very scarce and precious in the Central Plains.
The destination is Yuntai Waterfall, the highest waterfall in China, with a drop of 3 14m. I thought we were short of water when we went there. Later, I heard that it was like this most of the year, even worse than now. Compared with the magnificent propaganda pictures of Yuntai Waterfall, we have a feeling of going to McDonald's. The promotional pictures of Hamburg always seem to be enough for three people, but it seems that one person can eat three.
Tickets for Yuntai Mountain are valid for two days, so most tourists choose to live in the scenic spot. There are five service areas in Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area. The so-called service areas are all developed by villages in the mountains, and the largest is the onshore service area. Don't worry about accommodation at other times except during the Golden Week. Every household is a hotel, and restaurants are all over the streets.
There are also various stalls, such as dragon meat in the sky, donkey meat on the ground and donkey meat in the Central Plains, which are all very good.
How can you miss the North China hamburger-the donkey meat is burnt and crisp, and the donkey meat is fat but not greasy? 10 yuan.
Another bowl of Hu spicy soup in the morning, with pancakes and fried dough sticks, is a very Henan way to eat. Although it is not very delicious, every place I go, I definitely want to eat local food.
Early in the morning, I went to Hongshixia, the essence of Yuntai Mountain. I didn't expect many people to think the same way as us. Early in the morning, we began to queue up to enter the scenic spot. In order to go to Yuntai Mountain, we deliberately avoided the weekend, but we still couldn't escape the fate of Hongshixia congestion. Don't come on holidays, the consequences are unimaginable.
Hongshixia seems to be a huge bonsai, famous for its red cliff, with a total length of1.500m.. This is a one-way scenic spot. If it's not blocked, you can swim in an hour and a half.
How to block the scenic spot? Because most roads in scenic spots are dug on the cliffs of valleys, many places can only be crossed by one person. "Overtaking" is not easy, so "traffic jam" is common. We should avoid holidays and crowds and make full psychological preparations.
Safety in the canyon is also the first priority. The canyon is 68 meters deep, and the dug path is twenty or thirty meters high from the bottom of the valley. In the event of an accident, personal safety comes first, and property safety should also be paid attention to, especially when taking pictures with mobile phones, because mobile phones can't be hung up and there are many people, so it is easy to meet you.
Hongshixia is known as "natural landscape gallery". If we ignore the dense tourists, it is really a very good landscape corridor, just like a natural bonsai with exquisite craftsmanship.
Hongshixia is also a unique and unparalleled geological park. It is said that in Bailongtan, Hongshixia, geological experts also found zircon 3.4 billion years ago, which is the oldest rock found on the earth at present. I think Hongshixia should be more beautiful after the rain, because Hongshi is more colorful.
I often see this small bridge in promotional videos and pictures of Yuntai Mountain, which seems to be the symbol of Yuntai Mountain. I've always wondered whether it's natural or artificial. After on-the-spot observation, I think the small bridge should still be carved by hand, and I am worried that one day this small bridge will be trampled down by tourists, which is a symbol of Yuntai Mountain.
The water in Hongshi Gorge is far richer than that in Tanpu Gorge and Quanpu Gorge, which are famous for their water. The waterfall looks more spectacular, but there are too many tourists. It should be better to go in the off-season, but the off-season in the north is yellow and lacks some green vitality.
Hongshixia is a one-way street. There is no turning back. In fact, there is no turning back. This road is too narrow. After coming out, it will be the dam of Zifanghu Reservoir.
Zifang Lake is spectacular and the water is beautiful. Because Sean (Zifang) of the Han Dynasty stood on the peak of the west side of the valley, trained day and night, helped Liu Bang achieve great things, and then lived in seclusion here. The lake is about 4 kilometers long.
In fact, everything in Zifang Lake should be named after tourism. It's called Maanshan Reservoir.
You can go to Zifang Lake by speedboat. The cruising time is about 20 minutes, but the time to wait for the speedboat depends on the number of tourists.
If what shocked me the most was Diecai Cave, Diecai Cave is one of the 1 1 scenic spots, but you can only go by car. Diecai Cave is a masterpiece of the local people who carried forward the spirit of "foolish public" and fought for ten years from 1977 to 1987. It consists of 19 caves with a total length of 48,365,438+. The longest is more than 400 meters, the shortest is 10 meters, and the most unique is more than 400 meters long. There are not only no lights, but also 180 degree turn and tunnel turn 180 degree turn. This is my first experience.
After a 25-minute drive from Hongshixia, I climbed more than 900 meters to Cornus officinalis peak. Cornus officinalis peak is a national forest park. It is said that it was named because Wang Wei climbed this peak and wrote "Cornus officinalis is short of one person". But wasn't Wang Wei, a lonely young man of 17 years old, in Chang 'an at that time?
In fact, besides Wang Wei, Sun Simiao, the drug king, also left his mark here. Cornus peak is also a sacred place for literati and Taoist priests in past dynasties.
Cornus peak, dense vegetation, towering old trees, thousands of years old trees, such as yew, pentagram, Taihang flowers and so on. The forest coverage rate is as high as 93%, and it has the reputation of natural oxygen bar.
Cornus officinalis peak is the main peak of Yuntai Mountain, with an altitude of1.308m.. There are thousands of steps to climb. If you have time, you can climb up and overlook it. The green bus in the parking lot is Yuntai Mountain, with a large number and convenient transportation.
On the mountain road, in addition to experiencing the spectacular scenery of the eighteen bends of the mountain road and Diecai Cave, there is also a great advantage, that is, overlooking the Ovary Lake, you can have a panoramic view of the clear water. It is said that in June, 2002, the peach jellyfish, which was listed in the national red list of endangered wild animals together with wild horses and giant pandas, was also found in the Ovary Lake, and its requirements for water environment were extremely high.
A relatively independent and smallest scenic spot is Wanshan Temple, an ancient temple in the Ming Dynasty, but after destruction and reconstruction, the buildings in the Ming Dynasty have long since disappeared.
This is a typical China temple, and the Taihang Mountain behind it adds some scenery to this small temple. Now Wanshan Temple benefits from the rapid development of tourism in Yuntai Mountain.
Yuntai Mountain is awesome and the scenery is really beautiful, but maybe my expectations are too high, maybe I have seen too many great rivers and mountains of my motherland. From a tourist's point of view, Yuntai Mountain is not as beautiful as the legend. It is a scenic spot worth visiting, with magnificent canyon wonders and rare Xiushui Spring in the north. Yuntai Mountain is really one of the best scenic spots in the Central Plains, and it is very big. There should be a lot of unexplored beauty, only those famous for water. The historical environment of each region is different, and the tourism characteristics are also different. Just like in Guangdong, you can't expect to find many historic attractions. In the Central Plains, the most beautiful waterscape is not prominent in the south.