Top 7 Danxia Landform in China
The
Danxia landform refers to various landscapes found in southeast and southwest
China that “consist of a red bed characterized by steep cliffs”. It is a unique
type of petrographic geomorphology in China. Danxia landform is formed from
red-coloured sandstones and conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age. The
landforms look very much like karst topography that forms in areas underlain by
limestones, but since the rocks that form danxia are sandstones and conglomerates,
they have been called “pseudo-karst” landforms. There
are more than twenty provinces have Danxia landform in China, but the Danxia
Mountain in Renhua County, Shaoguan City of Guangdong Province is the most
famous one, and even the danxia landform is named after Danxia Mountain.
1
Danxia Mountain (Shaoguan, Guangdong Province)
DanxiaMountain, or Mount Danxia, is a national key scenic spots, and also known as “China’s
Redstone Park”. Danxia Mountain consists of a dozen red conglomerate Danxia
hills. It is the most complete, unique beautiful and typical Danxia landform
Among 1200 Danxia landscapes in the world, it is also called “open-air
geological museum”. At the same time Danxia Mountain also has some unique
stone, such as Yang Yuan Stone, yin Yuan Stone, Breasts stone, Sleeping Beauty
and other attractions.
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| Danxia Mountain |
2 Mount
Wuyi (Nanping, Fujian Province)
Located
at Junction of north Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces, Mount Wuyi is among the
first group of China’s top tourist destinations, as well the fourth natural and
cultural heritage in China. With a pleasant climate, fascinating scenery,
abundant products, time-honored history and rich tourism resources, Mount Wuyi
is a famous tea, grain and timber production center in China. It is a typical Danxia
cuesta, massive mountain and columnar mountain, standing near the water. Please see our Mount Wuyi tour packages, join us!
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| Mount Wuyi |
3
Dajin Lake (Sanming, Fujian Province)
Dajin
Lake is consisted of four unique styles of small basins. Clear and green lake
and surrounding different styles of red mountains constitute the perfect combination
of dynamic and static landscape. It is well-known as “the first hills”; some of
the scenic mountain is rather old, so it is also the oldest Danxia landform in southeast
coastal area of China. A large number of strange caves and honeycomb caves can
be seen everywhere in the scenic area. Caves are large, strange, with different
patterns and are called “Danxia landform Cave Museum”.
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| Dajin Lake |
4 Mount
Longhu (Yingtan, Jiangxi Province)
Located
at 20 kilometers southeast of Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province,
Mount Longhu, or Longhu Mountain, is
one of China’s four famous Taoism Mountains, as well as the best and most
complete Danxia landform in China. The mountains, caves, and rocks in the
scenic area constitute its complete and unique Danxia landform.
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| Mount Longhu |
5 Bajiaozhai
Village (Ziyuan County, Guilin, Guangxi Province) & Langshan Mountain
(Xinning County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province)
Bajiaozhai
village is located in Guangxi Autonomous Region, while the Langshan Mountain is
in Hunan Province, but they are quite close to each other.
Bajiaozhai
Village is also called Yutai Mountain, of
which corner has dangerous, towering, majesty, wonderful, beautiful, and
natural characteristic, one of which is called “Longtouxiang” and it is
suspending in the air, it looks like a dragon which is going to fly. Bajiaozhai
Village was evaluated as one of the beautiful Danxia landforms in China by the
China national geographic in 2005. It covers more than 40 square kilometers and
its landform shape is developed richly. Honored as “soul of the Danxia
landform” by the concerned experts, the Bajiaozhai Village is worthy
inspection.
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| Bajiaozhai Village |
Langshan
Mountain is one of China's National Geological Park and famous for its unique
Danxia landform. It is located in Xinning county, Hunan province. In the south
Langshan Mountain is connected with Guilin, in the north it echoes Zhangjiajie. Covering an area of 108 square kilometers,
Langshan Mountain has rich natural scenery and abundant tourism resources.
There are more than 60 scenic spots in Langshan Mountain. Among which the most
famous are Tianyi Lane, Chili Peak, Zixia Cave, Fuyi River, Innate Bridge,
Bajiao Stronghold, Emperor Xun Forest Park and Xicun Ancient Dwelling, etc.
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| Langshan Mountain |
6 Zhangye
Danxia Landform (Zhangye, Gansu Province)
Zhangye
Danxia Landform is major features quaint, colorful and magnificent, and based
with isolated peaks and steep rock formations, including colorful gorge,
colorful tower, colorful lake, as well as colorful many other wonderful scenery,
both have southern and northern charm and style. Danaxia landforms are
colourful rock formations at the Zhangye Danxia Landform, a unique type of petrographic geomorphology
which is found only in China which consists of red-colored sandstones and
conglomerates of largely Cretaceous age.
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| Zhangye Danxia Landform |
7 Chishui
Danxia Landform (Zunyi City, Guizhou Province)
Chishui
Danxia landform has bright red red cliff, narrow ridge, spectacular rocks and mountains, huge rocks
gallery cave and beautiful danxia canyons, together with green forests and waterfalls,
forming a unique Danxia landform.
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| Chishui Danxia Landform |
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