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Bajiaozhai -
Part Of Langshan Mountain
"One of Top Seven Most Beautiful
Danxia in China"
Ranked by China National Geography Magazine
Langshan Mountain lies between in
Ziyuan County of Guilin City Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous
Region and Hunan Province, the part in Guangxi
Ziyuan county is called Bajiaozhai.
In the heart of Yuecheng Mountain,
where Hunan and Guangxi meet, there is a long,
narrow basin of red conglomerate and sand stone,
which tool shape in the early Cretaceous period
of the Mesozoic era, about 100 million years ago.
Here, in the scenic area from Langshan Mountain,
where Zijiang River (a tributary of the Yangtze
River) originates, to Bajiaozhai, you can find
the Danxia landform, which straddles Xinning County
in Hunan, where it covers an area of 77.5 square
kilometers and Ziyuan County in Guangxi, where
it covers an area of 125 square kilometers. The
Zijiang and Fuyi rivers flow northward from the
basin into the Dongting Lake, their banks as pretty
as a picture.
Langshan Mountain is thick with Danxia
peak forest, like ten thousand bamboo shoots soaring
into the sky, or ten thousand horses charging;
its outstanding feature is its many deep-cut narrow
valleys; because the sandstone has a larger proportion
of limestone and conglomerate, the Karst features
are quite clear.
In the Bajiaozhai Scenic Area, there are over
a hundred weirdly shaped towering mountains, jagged
rocks, red peaks, caves and valleys. One such,
Conch Mountain, is composed of four awl-shaped
peaks, each over a hundred meters high and covered
by exquisite whorls, just like gigantic conches.
Standing on a commanding height to look upon the
panorama, all you can see is fold after fold of
mountains, rising and falling like waves.
Best time to go
From April to October. An average annual temperature
is 62.6F.
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