Information about Yunnan Stone Forest
Stone Forest is located in Kunming City. It is a national key scenic spot known as "The No. 1 Wonder in the World" and "Ashima's Hometown". According to folklore, Ashima's hometown is also known as the "Hidden Lake" because the lake is hidden among green mountains and green hills and was seldom visited by tourists in the past.
The main scenic spots include Dushi Mountain, Dajianshan, Erjianshan, Sanjianshan, Mopanshan, Penglai Island, Yuanhu, etc. It is an entertainment and leisure resort for camping, vacation, recuperation, water sports, archery and crossbow shooting, and appreciation and participation in folk dance performances.
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Kunming Stone Forest Scenic Area has been rated as a "World Geopark" and "World Natural Heritage Scenery" by the United Nations Educational and Cultural Sciences. In 1982, it was approved by the State Council to become the first It is one of the first batch of national key scenic spots, a national 5A tourist attraction and a national civilized scenic tourist area.
Because of the antiquity, complexity, multi-stage and rarity of its development and evolution, as well as the diversity of landscape forms, the stone forest has become a typical example of such karst geological and landform relics in the world and the second "stone forest" in the world. The origin of the word, and has a high value of popular science in tourist places.
The Yunnan Stone Forest preserves and displays the most diverse karst forms. Tall sword-shaped, columnar, mushroom-shaped, tower-shaped limestone pillars are typical representatives of the stone forest. In addition, there are also karst hills, depressions, and funnels. , underground rivers, caves, stone buds, stalactites, karst lakes, natural bridges, cliff waterfalls, cone-shaped peaks, etc.
Almost all the karst forms in the world are concentrated here, forming a panoramic view of karst geology and landforms. Yunnan Stone Forest Global Geopark is also one of the first batch of China's national key scenic spots, China's National Geopark, and World Geopark. It is as famous as the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an, and the landscape of Guilin.