A Tour along Taihang Valley
The path is high up in the air and the view around you is breathtaking. One step
ahead you will face a new angle and a completely different picture. New colors,
new dimensions and new visions keep on throwing at you. How can you focus
yourself on the concerns over abyss and rocks around and miss the wonderful
landscape then? At this moment the plank road will appear so smooth and stable
that you can even walksintosheaven along it. The very originality of the
creativity of the road-builders will just overcome you.
There are many valley chains in Linlu Mountain, Wangxiangyan is a typical
one. It looks like the lord's armchair. High precipices surround the valley on
three sides. In the center are waterfalls and springs. The cliffs are just like
pavilions and towers.
With a plank road running through the air, the valley forms one of the most
beautiful views in the valley. As others described, fed peacock in the front,
tortoise at behind, black dragon on the left and white tiger on the right.This
was a favorite travel destination of monks and scholars. With green forests,
high mountains and flying waterfalls, tourists name the place the bar of oxygen.
It goes through three stages before one can reach the top of the mountain.
The first part is a cable with a 70-meter-high plank road. The second is
80-meter-high spiral ladder and the third part is stone steps leading all the
way up to the top.
The peach valley is just the opposite way. A plank road threads through in
the mountain like a brook. Sometimes the cliff is just within arm distance;
sometimes it is a dozen meters away. For about over an hour, the tortuous road
runs through together with the changes of the mountain.
Two supreme views
The famous Alaska canyon in United States is 20 kilometers long, however the
Linlu Valley in Linzhou City of Henan Province, also know as 100-li Painted
Corridor, extends as long as 50 kilometers. It is indeed a masterpiece of the
Nature. A tree has many branches; likewise the valley also gets a chain of
branches. Acting as naughty kids of the main valley and hiding deeply in the
mountain with cascades and pools, these branch valleys unfold before us a
majestic scroll of landscape. Among other things, Wang-xiang-yan, Peach Valley,
Paradise Glow Valley, Dragon Bed Valley and Carriage Buddha Gully are the most
well-known sightseeing spots,swheresa greedy tourist may easily spend a whole
day.
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