The mysterious Enshi Grand Canyon, with scenery comparable to that of Colorado, is known as the most beautiful scar on earth.

The spectacular scenery of the Enshi Grand Canyon in Hubei is comparable to the Colorado Grand Canyon in the United States. Therefore, some people call it the "Chinese version" of the Grand Canyon.

The Enshi Grand Canyon is also a section of the Qingjiang Grand Canyon. The entire canyon is 108 kilometers long and has a total area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers.

We drove here by ourselves. When we were approaching the Enshi Grand Canyon Scenic Area, we saw that the terrain here was very different. The road was built along the cliffs on the mountainside. We drove around for a long time before descending. To rock bottom.

The entire Enshi Grand Canyon is divided into Qixingzhai Scenic Area and Yunlong Ground Seam Scenic Area. A heavy rainstorm last summer caused flash floods and washed away the plank road in the Yunlong Seam. Now the Yunlong Scenic Area is closed.

Unfortunately, the cable car is also out of service for maintenance, so we can only visit the scenic spots of Qixingzhai this time. The ticket plus local transportation is 100 yuan.

The visitor center is at the bottom of the valley. After walking along the winding road for more than 40 minutes, we arrived at the gate of Qixing Village.

Normally, you can reach the top of the front mountain of Enshi Grand Canyon directly from the cable car. On foot, we could only walk up slowly along the plank road on the cliff.

The Enshi Grand Canyon is 1,500-1,900 meters above sea level. The entire scenic area is a karst landscape formed by weathering, denudation and dissolution of carboniferous rocks.

The weather was quite good in the morning. The wall-hanging plank road under the blue sky and white light was very beautiful.

The plank road is twists and turns, as if hanging on the cliff, so it is called "wall-hanging plank road".

Standing on the Nantian Platform, you can see the village at the foot of the mountain. The scenery is charming.

The section we are traveling on now is the front mountain of Enshi Grand Canyon, which consists of small tower gate, middle tower gate and big tower gate.

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Shenxian Peak is a limestone from the Triassic Period. It was formed 203-250 million years ago. The entire stone pillar was originally connected to the mountain next to it. Because the mountain has transverse and longitudinal fissures, weathering and dissolution in the later period caused the mountain to peel off, forming independent stone pillars.

Legend has it that there are gods living on the top of the mountain, who often go to the bottom of the mountain to help the people. The pine tree statue is the incarnation of the gods, hence the name "Fairy Peak".

The pine trees at the top of the peak grow between the cliffs, with a strange shape. They are opposite to the "welcoming pine" at the door of the building, and are also called "small welcoming pine".

The Stone Bud Maze is a typical karst stone sprout (forest) landform. It is a group of protruding stone ridges formed by the weathering, denudation and dissolution of limestone in the Triassic Period (250 million to 230 million years ago).

The average height of the stone buds is about 2m. They are undulating, disorderly, with different shapes and jagged, like waves, islands, snails crawling, and mosquitoes and dragons entering the sea.

The snow has just fallen, and there is snow on the ground. I picked up some ice and snow to play with.

Shiya is a common karst landform on gentle rock slopes in karst areas. The protruding stone ridges or ridge-like rock masses between the grooves formed by the dissolution of surface water along the cracks on the carbonate rock surface are called The stone buds are so named because they are scattered randomly like stars, and you can move through them like entering a maze.

The main landform types of Qianshan limestone include cliffs, rock pillar forests, solitary peaks, stone buds (forests), peak forest depressions, etc. The pine trees in the scenic area are green and amazingly beautiful.

Acacia bird pictographic stone landscape

The hanging coffin is a funeral ritual of the ancient Ba people, the ancestors of the Tujia people in Hubei Province. It was formed at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

The hanging cabinet stone here is a karst pictographic stone, which is a remnant stone formed after the denudation and dissolution of limestone along the joint surface in the Triassic period (250 million to 230 million years ago). It resembles a hanging coffin, hence its name.

Passing through the sky, this is another natural landscape formed after dissolution. These are natural textbooks for the evolution of the earth.

Standing on the plank road, you can see the Yunlong Seam in the distance. At the entrance of the seam is an artificial reservoir, and the lake water is turquoise. The cracks in the ground are like scars on the earth, surrounded by huge ravines, and the mountains are majestic, steep, thick and far away.

"One Stick of Incense" is a wonder of karst landforms and is known as one of the forty most beautiful scenic spots in China.

CCTV's "Approaching Science" column team once produced a documentary on this strange stone that has survived for thousands of years, telling its formation process. Geologically speaking, today's steep stone pillars were formed due to the long-term interlacing effects of the Yangtze River and Qingjiang water systems, resulting in continuous erosion and erosion.

"A Stick of Incense" is a rare single Triassic limestone pillar on the earth. It has experienced many major earthquakes and still stands still. It is because the density of the rock is very high, and it is protected by five peaks around it. The air flow changes, and it is more like an invisible hand supporting it, so it does not collapse due to wind and rain erosion.

It is the treasure of the Enshi Grand Canyon. The "One Stick of Incense" stone pillar is 150 meters high, with the narrowest cross-section diameter only 4 meters. This is why there are very few similar slender stone pillars on the earth, and the longest and largest ones are only in Enshi.

The Auspicious Cloud Torch is a limestone mountain landform with relatively pure gray matter, strong solidity, strong integrity, and developed vertical corrosion marks, such as the Auspicious Cloud Torch of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Scenic spot rating:

National 5A tourist attraction

Location: Enshi City, Hubei Province

Opening hours 08:30~17:00

Ticket price is 100 yuan, including transportation to and from the scenic spot.

When we went there, the ropeway was under maintenance and was not open.

Bus route:

In Enshi city, take the bus to the city and then transfer to a special bus to the scenic spot

Self-driving route:

It is recommended to arrange a day trip. From Chongqing, we come from Lichuan County. We can take the 318 National Highway, and then enter the road to the Grand Canyon Scenic Area from the bifurcation.

The highlight of the Enshi Grand Canyon Scenic Spot is mainly the carboniferous geological landscape. The sinkholes, ground fissures, cliffs, peak clusters, rock pillar groups, caves

and underground rivers are all unique. Natural wonders.