-This article is reproduced from the public account: Tibet Travel Online-
Walking in the territory of Zanda, you can see the mountains and forests, with clear texture, steep and slow, ups and downs, dense like a city, stretching for tens of kilometers along the river valley, and the surrounding snow-capped mountains complement each other, just like the ridges and waves, the peaks jump and startle Tao, the momentum is magnificent.
2500 square kilometers of soil forest
More than 400 square kilometers well developed
The three most representative canyons
Sanda Canyon : Appreciate the overall picture of the soil forest
Zanda Canyon : Go deep into the soil forest, in various poses and with different expressions
win with grandeur
Xiayi Canyon is another style
If the earth forests around Zanda County amaze you, you may be dumbfounded when you come to Xiayi Valley.
Xiayigou, its name is not widely known. On Baidu, you can’t search for its name.
It is hidden in the soil forest and has a unique scenery.
Ali’s soil forest seems to have fallen from the sky, which makes people marvel at the exquisiteness of nature, and Xiayigou is one of the most exquisite works of art. Amidst the desolate yellow, a piece of white soil forest looks abrupt and dazzling. When you enter Xiayi Valley, you will be attracted by the wind-eroded landform in the valley. Its spectacular scene is quite similar to the Grand Canyon of the United States.
Compared with other soil forests in the Zada area, the multicolored soil forest in Xiayigou is more varied in shape, with countless columnar soil forest shapes in a well-arranged pattern. After long-term weathering and rain erosion, these jagged rocks have formed a special structure of large, medium and small , Looking like a big mushroom from a distance. Because it contains a large amount of ore, the colors are mainly yellow, red and blue. When the light is good, the colors are very rich.
The difference in soil and forest features is related to the sediments at the bottom of the lake in the early days. As the bottom of the lake gradually rises, different sediments are eroded over time, revealing different scenery.
From Zanda County to Xiayi Canyon, first pass through Zanda Canyon, two canyons, two styles, completely different, amazing nature is so magical.
Xiayi Canyon has four small canyons (grooves), each with its own characteristics: strange silver-white, silver-gray, and beige under the sunlight,
More like a strange planet in a sci-fi movie.
There is a ditch with Dinghaishenzhen and eagles, another ditch is like a castle in an ancient kingdom, another ditch is like a gate leading to another world, another ditch is like an ancient alien fossilization site, monsters, mushrooms, ancient forests… ….
The exquisiteness of Xiayi Canyon surpasses the roughness of other canyons. Although the road to it is rugged, bumpy, and thrilling, these are not shortcomings in the face of the magical landscape.
The composition of the soil forest in Xiayi Valley is special, the bottom is gravel and loess, and the top is iron-bearing ore layer. The structural components of the bottom layer are easily eroded by wind and sand, and years of weathering have resulted in a shape that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. It looks like a big mushroom!
At the same time, because the soil layer contains a lot of ore, red, blue, yellow and many other colors shine in it, and it is colorful under the sunlight.
The high and flat summits have been eroded by longitudinal cuts into deep ravines. The soil forest “mushrooms” here can be up to tens of meters high and low.
Xiayi Valley is one of the areas with the best soil forest development in Zanda. Because it is inaccessible, it is also very well preserved. The top of the Gaoping mountain is eroded into deep ravines by longitudinal cutting. The soil forest “trees” here are tens of meters high and low, with strange shapes and various postures, and the scenery is unique and magnificent.
The uncanny workmanship of nature is fully displayed here. This is the result of hundreds of millions of years of polishing and carving.
These exquisite sculptures, with the accumulation of years, quietly watch in the depths of time.
Address : Near Xiangzi Township, Zanda County, Ngari Prefecture
The total length of Xiayi Valley is about 5 kilometers, and there are about a dozen small valleys distributed on the left and right. Each small valley has different characteristics of soil forest distribution. It is recommended to mainly visit the 4th and 5th branch valley on the right. Due to the need to travel along the riverbed, it is recommended to go with a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle.
The source of the text and pictures is the self-driving geography of the public account
