Guide National Geological Park
Guide National Geopark is a comprehensive geopark with natural landscapes and geological relics as its main features, supplemented by diverse ecological landscapes and rich cultural landscapes. Ashgang Colorful Peaks has seven kinds of mountain colors, with beautiful landforms, abrupt peaks, and strange geological shapes. This attraction has thirteen cultural theme squares and seven Danxia canyons, especially Nuwa Gorge, Qianfo Gorge, and Tongtian Gorge, which are rare natural wonders.
Main Attractions in Guide National Geopark
The scenic spot is composed of 13 cultural theme squares and 7 Danxia gorges, among which Nu Wa Gorge, Thousand Buddha Gorge and Tongtian Gorge are all rare natural wonders in the world.The interior scene covers an area of 3,000 acres, the exterior scene covers an area of 50,000 mu, it is an ideal place for tourism, dining and entertainment, and grazing mood.It is 70 kilometers away from Xining, with convenient transportation, pleasant climate and beautiful scenery.Mawu Gorge wind erosion geomorphology uncanny, endless changes; The Landscape of the Yellow River is beautiful, like a flower like a brocade;Longyang Canyon steep and precipitous, great momentum.Various geological relics reflect the evolution process of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in geological history, and record the development history of the Yellow River and the changes of the natural environment in Guide. It is an excellent place for sightseeing, leisure, science education and scientific research, and is known as "little Jiangnan on the plateau".
Ashgang Colorful Peaks Scenic Area
As the core scenic spot of Guide National Geopark, Ashgang Colorful Peak Scenic Area is located in the Thousand Buddhas Grand Canyon in Ashgon, Garang Township, Guide County, covering an area of 3,000 acres, with a total investment of 460 million yuan, and it took five years to complete. The scenic spot consists of 13 theme squares with "soil" as the core and seven Danxia Canyons with different colors and shapes; There are also museums, Nuwa Lake. It is a cultural tourist attraction with a rich local culture and a unique Danxia natural landscape.
Danxia landform
In the scenic area, the Danxia landform is long and strange, the peaks are abrupt, the geological shape is strange and magical, and the mountain color is seven colors, so it is also called the colorful peak cluster Xuanyuan back earth.National geological park, provincial cultural industry demonstration base and is applying for national cultural industry demonstration base, photography, creation, fine arts, film and television and other organizations have set up bases in the park.
Ashgong Gorge
There are several Danxia landforms in Guide, the most famous of which is the Ashgong Gorge. Ashgong Gorge from the valley long sheep circle bay, west to the mouth of dhaka Ditch.Inside the gorge, the Garang River snakes south like a yellow band.Due to the water cutting, on both sides of the mountains is appeared more cut off a cliff, plus some wind erosion sandstone and relatively gentle slopes, contrasting with the fiery red, stretching dozens of very spectacular gap to about 50 meters high cliff, on both sides of the mountains become straight cliff face clearly presents the horizontal lines of the sediments of the year.
From Cretaceous to Tertiary, the red sand and gravel strata were gradually exposed from the depths of the stratum due to the underwater cutting of the Yellow River and the uplift of the Himalayan orogenic movement. After thousands of years of erosion by flowing water and carving by wind, they formed a variety of towering rock cliffs. As Danxia landform, it has the characteristics of Danxia landform naturally. Red Cliff is widely developed and precipitous in shape. Most of them are square mountains, stone walls, stone peaks and pillars with flat tops, steep bodies and slow foothills, with high ornamental value.The rocks that formed these red mountains were red clastic rocks deposited in inland basins. When the crust lifted into the mountains, the slopes collapsed and retreated, eventually eroding into steep mountains on all sides.
Features
Location: Ashegong Village, Garang Township, Guide County, Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Scenic Spot Level: National 4A Level Scenic Spot
Climate: Plateau continental climate, the average annual temperature of 2℃-8℃
Travel Information
Opening Time: peak-season 8:30-19:30
off-season 9:00-18:00
Ticket Price: 100CNY
Best Time to Travel: April to October
Travel Tips
1.You can go to the farmyard to taste Tibetan farm-style food.
2.The transportation in Guide is very convenient. It is 112 km from the provincial capital Xining, 180 km from Qinghai Lake and 70 km from Kanbula.