Shangri -La: Is there my beauty in heaven?

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Shangri -La -the bright moon in your heart

In the 1920s, American explorer Joseph Rocke came to the northwestern region of Yunnan, China for inspection. He recorded the original ecology, intricate landforms and beautiful scenery in words and photos. The gaze of the magazine continued to publish many articles.

In 1933, after seeing Locke's article, British writer James Hilton inspired endless inspiration and published the book "Disappearing Horizon". The book fictional was a mysterious realm located in the East -Shangri -La.

△ "Disappearing Horizontal Line"

Once the book is published, it will become a explosion, the clouds and misty forests, the rolling mountains, and the looming snow top ... The transcendent description of Shangri -La in the book has evoked the strong curiosity of countless Westerners. born.

The adventurers carried their bags and came to Tibet, India, and Nepal, China not far away, just to find this ideal kingdom hidden in the mountains.

In 2002, in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwestern Yunnan Province, it officially renamed the capital Zhongdian County to Shangri -La City. After more than half a century, the fantasy paradise Wonderland found home in reality. Now, Shangri -La is often referred to as the northwest of Yunnan, which is centered on Diqing.

△ The land of fantasy has realistic destinations. Drawing/MONK

The Yunnan -Tibet Railway Lijiang to Shangri -La section is about to appear in stunning. Today, when the stars are picked, I will take a trip to Yunnan's most beautiful train and go to Shangri -La!

△ Liliang section of the Yunnan -Tibet Railway. Picture/People's Railway

The world's only Sanjiang River is flowing here. The world's most spectacular low latitudes snow mountain group stands here. The dream world between the lake.

Geological miracle

Shangri -La is a paradise located in the mountains. Behind it, it is the mountains and rivers of the ghost ax.

About 50 million to 20 million years ago, a large collision between the Indian sector and the Asia-Europe sector. The squeezing caused by the collision caused the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to quickly bulge. Under a series of squeezing, traction, shrinkage caused by collision, in the east of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau, the composite mountain belt cut from thousands of blades -the horizontal mountains in the horizontal mountains.

△ Overlooking the horizontal mountains from high altitude, like the fluffy folds of the earth. Photo/Visual China

The Jinsha River, Lancang River, and Nu River, which are derived from the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau, rushed down along the Hengduan Mountains, and quickly contracted and moved closer to the folds in the Shangri -La area northwest of Yunnan, but they were blocked by the folds and moved forward independently and parallel parallel. , The narrowest interval is only 64 kilometers, and the super wonders in the history of geological evolution- "Sanjiang Poor" was born.

"Three Rivers and Streaming", as the three major rivers that occurred in a small area and miracle, are unique in the global river and river. In the history of geological evolution in hundreds of millions of years, there are a little faults that have risen and sinking. This landscape may no longer exist.

△ Nu River rushed down. Photo/Visual China

Such a complicated and strange mountain and river structure created the world's world -class geological features here. One by one winding river was cut down along the mountains, forming a magnificent canyon group. Among them, Shangri -La Grand Canyon and "Disappearing Horizon" The "Blue Moon Canyon" in China is exactly the same, and the cliffs, strange holes, clouds, and green waves are intertwined with each other.

△ Shangri -La Grand Canyon. Photo/Visual China

The canyon group represented by the Shangri -La Grand Canyon also formed a exquisite karst landscape. The treacherous holes and caves are revealed between thousands of walls, and it is a stunning landscape combination with the bottomless deep canyon. This masterpiece is derived from the erosion of the surface water and snow -like erosion from the snow mountain.

The world's most spectacular low latitudes of the low latitudes are decentralized, Merry Snow Mountain, Haba Snow Mountain, Gaoligong Mountain ... they are both high masterpieces of geological movement and the source of life that bred the true ecology.

△ Shangri -La at the foot of Haba Snow and at the foot of the mountain. Photo/Visual China

The top of the mountains -Meili Snow Mountain

In the magnificent snow mountains, the head of the mountains is the Merri Snow Mountain.

The Merri Snow Mountain is located on the main ridge line of the Nanta Mountains in the northwest of Shangri -La. Although it does not have the supreme altitude of Mount Everest, it is called "the forbidden area of ​​the climbing" because the main peak Kavabeg has never reached the top.

△ Cavabeg in Merri Snow Mountain is 6,740 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in Yunnan. Photo/Visual China

代 In the 1930s, Joseph Locke (the explorer mentioned earlier) came to the area of ​​Meili Snow Mountain, northwest of Yunnan. When he looked up at the main peak Cavacpag, the unknown majestic and handsome instantly convinced the one to see more. The ranger of knowledge, "This is the most beautiful mountain in the world", Locke blurted out.

Actually, before Locke, someone had visited here and tried to climb the Cavaba Peak. In 1902, the climbing team from the United Kingdom tried to conquer Cavabeg Snow Peak, but left the first climbing record in the history of Cavabeg.

△ Cavabeg's peak is daunting. Photo/Visual China

Since then, countless climbers have come, but what they have left is the failure and even mountains and difficulties again and again. In 1990, the China -Japan joint climbing team once again challenged the challenge. When they came to 6,300 meters above sea level and the peak was close at hand, the disaster occurred -the climbing team encountered an avalanche, and the 17 climbing players were killed. Once the news was released, the world was shocked, and the difficulty of Merry Snow Mountain became the second largest mountain in the world. After the tragedy, the local ban immediately issued a ban — no one or the organizer to climb the Merri Snow Mountain. Come here.

△ 1991 Merri Snow Mountain Incident, one of the biggest tragedies in the world climbing. Figure/Yahoo

The reason why the Miri Snow Mountain dates the mountains, which is inseparable from the hinterland of the Hengduan Mountains. The cold air from the Indian ocean warm and humidity and the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau drove straight along the canyon, making the weather of Merry Snow Mountain ever changing, and often caught off guard. At the same time, because the overall Merry Snow Mountain is more vertical and steep, the maximum vertical gap is up to 3,200 meters. Although the height is not as difficult to climb, it is more difficult to climb.

△ The steep slope has greatly increased the difficulty of climbing. Photo/Visual China

Although the Meili Snow Mountain is a human forbidden area, it is also a paradise for nature. Due to the great altitude, from the Lancang River Valley at the foot of the mountain to the peak, a natural climate type that is almost included in the northern hemisphere, forests, shrubs, grasslands, meadows, glaciers ... ecological vegetation types and natural landscape types are diverse diverse It is extremely rare in the same latitude region in the world.

The horizontal hinterland where the Merri Snow Mountain is located, a north -south -like mountain range has become an excellent corridor for species migration. All creatures can find a comfortable and comfortable destination here, and it also attracts rare legendary species such as snow leopard, cloud leopard, and forest musk to come here.

△ The top of the mountain is ice and snow, and the mountain is green. Photo/Visual China

Song of Flower and Lake

The ice and snow from the snow -capped mountains and snow bleed down the valley, leaving a piece of plateau glacier lake, hundreds of thousands of lakes like the remaining pearls, dotted between the plateau mountains.

These lakes are bright and clear, surrounded by mountains and grasslands or wetlands, and wrapped by the virgin forests of the mountains. They are the most beautiful scenery in the mountains.

△ Plateau lakes make Shangri -La beauty. Photo/Visual China

Lake Lake, located in Pudatcuo National Park, is the representative of the Plateau Lake. Due to the strong influence of the Qinghai -Tibet Plateau, it has a break and depression in the area of ​​the Duhu Lake. Eclipse.

△ Pudato National Park (founded area), the remains in the mountains. Photo/Visual China

The lakes of Duhu Lake are clear and translucent, and the lakes are surrounded by five -colored mountain forests and grass fields. The birds on the lake are inhabited, and the beasts by the lake are running. A primitive and complete plateau wetland ecosystem quietly bred here.

△ It belongs to the beautiful scenery of Duhu Lake. Photo/Visual China

The scattered plateau lakes often correspond to the high mountain flowers, and weave a colorful world. Shangri -La is known as the "Mother of the World Garden". Rhododendron, Dragon, Spring, Magnolia, Lily, orchid's six high mountain flowers are all distributed here, and there are dozens of them. Every summer, the rhododendrons blooming in the mountains are splendid, and the mountains and lakes are decorated with colorful layers.

△ Shangri -La, the back garden of the world. Photo/Visual China

Early spring of each year, the "newspaper spring flower" in the azalea family is rolled out of the Jinsha River at an altitude of 1900 meters like a huge picture. Subsequently, two three family members such as the sticky rhododendron have bloomed in the valley and mountainside of 3,000 meters above sea level. By April, accompanied by flowers such as peach blossoms with a short flower period were blown by the wind, plateau flowers such as Duncai and lamps were already paved between mountains like a huge scroll, which was dyed on the earth. color.

△ Rhododendron, the most beautiful color of Shangri -La. Photo/Visual China

By May-June, the strong rhododendrons have been swept. They bloom from low to high from low to high, from the green pine forest area of ​​the green mountains to deep fir, from the grassland meadow to the lake. In the wetland, the azalea has occupied half of the riverside here.

The flowers and lakes are intertwined, and the symphony of the Shangri -La mountain and river land is played together. From fiction to reality. This is a place for everyone to be eternal peace and tranquility.

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