Stone Forest in Yunnan Tourism

Stone Forest, known as "the best in the world wonders," said Stone Forest Scenic Area. Is located in Kunming, Shilin Yi Autonomous County in the south, 86 km away from Kunming. Scenic spot by the large and small Shilin, Stone Forest is an ancient, large Dieshui, Long Lake, Moon Lake, Chi-yun-dong, strange wind tunnel composed of seven landscape Area. A total of Shilin county, an area of 400 square kilometers, is a karst landscape as the main body, a high profile at home and abroad scenic areas.

The so-called karst topography, also known as karst topography, refers to the surface of soluble rocks (mainly limestone) and the place dissolved by water dissolution, precipitation, collapse, fall, accumulation of such phenomena, while the formation of a special variety of landscapes - Shilin, Shi Feng , stone bud, dissolved struggle, La Shuidong, underground river, and the strange Longtan, numerous lakes, which collectively karst phenomena (due to the Yugoslav karst plateau northwest of the most typical, hence the name). China's Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and Sichuan provinces and autonomous regions are distributed, which developed the best, most beautiful Lunan Stone Forest, Kunming Shilin course ought to none. In 1966, China's first academic conference 2nd Karst proposed that "karst" to "Karst topography," it called karst landforms in China.

Stone Forest Scenic Area wide range, Shilin concentrated. Many of its biological or stone, the landscape of high value banking services. There are around Jiu Xiang, Elugudong, Bailong Dong, have been developed at the provincial level scenic spots. The addition of climate year-round spring, comfortable and pleasant, is a tourist sightseeing, a good place for leisure. In 1982, the approval by the State Council as the first batch of national key scenic spots. February 13, 2004, Shilin be assessed by the world's first UNESCO World Geopark, one of.

Ethnic costumes, Lunan halogen rot, Yiliang roast duck, fried pupae are worth buying, or the taste of Stone Forest tour of specialty products. Yi songs also have a high appreciation value and cultural connotations.

Stone Forest Landscape

Stone Forest in Kunming City East, is the world's rare attractions is a masterpiece of nature gods. On the road south of 400 square kilometers wide area, over a hundred big black rock group of the forest in general. Some separate scene, and some criss-cross, and even into an area of several ten mu, ranging from the Hundred Acre. The most typical one called the Shilin plum camp, we saw rocks where they stand, mixed peaks and ridges, is both varied and wonderful workmanship excelling nature, had been hailed as "best in the world wonders."

In the back some三亿六千万年ago Paleozoic Devonian period, the road south along the ancient sea, or as part of Yunnan, and Guizhou. About二亿八千万年before the Carboniferous, Shilin only began to take shape. Limestone in the sea water flows constantly through the washing, leaving behind numerous trenches and dissolving solvent column. Later, the crust here is the rising and prolonged accumulation, and eventually become sea to land. After the water receded, but also has experienced billions of years of sun baked and rain erosion burning, weathering, earthquakes, on the left of this fairy-tale-like world, a magnificent spectacle. From afar, that a branch, a seat, a huge clumps of gray-black stone pillars were raised into the sky Shi Feng, pointing blue sky, like a luxuriant gray of the Black Forest, therefore called "Stone Forest."

The main clusters, Li Shilin Stone Forest Camp, an area of about 12 square kilometers, tour an area of about 1,200 acres. Mainly by the Stone Forest Lake, Big Stone Forest, Shilin, and Plum Park, a few small parts, travel road more than 5000 meters, is the Stone Forest scenic area within the single largest and most concentrated, the most beautiful one. Access to the scenic area, the whole stone pillars, stone walls, strange things Shi Feng, Zheng-qi Jing-li. Some columns of up to 40-50 meters, at first glance, as the name of a Yi doggerel that says: "From a distance, large stones, large stones close look. Stone turned out great, and indeed big rock." But here, different stones It is a wonderful painting a day, attracting visitors all over the world come to stop to watch; it is a beautiful poem, as it always has numerous man of letters it chant Yin E; it is a spiritual and life; a double - Madara food, peacock comb wings, Phoenix spiritual instrument, such as distance Shitai, rhino full moon; a monk Tang stone, stone Wukong, Zhu Ba-jie Shi, Sha Seng Shi, Kuanyin stone, stone generals, soldiers, figurines, poet Hang Yin, Mother and Child Yu-kai, Ashima and other numerous biological or stone, are all vivid, lifelike, it is amazing. In addition to animals, there are many resemble plants, such as mushroom, mushrooms, jade tube flowers. There is a "bell stone" that can win their many different tones. Li Shilin is a whole battalion vast natural formations art treasures, left to tourists to observe, to discover, to free ride to imagine. Scenic spots full of frustrations, its winding, the venue and Yi Jing, people like entering a maze of Wonderland, who did not dare You will want to return full of praise. Scenic built-Lions Pavilion, Wang Feng Pavilion, Shitai, stone stool, etc. for people to rest.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, which has become a famous Stone Forest, it was not until the twentieth century, the fifties, the government was seriously organize relevant units and personnel to carry out inspections, design, construction, construction of road and outside of road travel, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, etc. to some biological or Stone took the name of famous Shilin Wuzhou gradually become a world-famous tourist destination.

Tour Shilin Stone Forest is also available from 6 km away from the "stone flight" bird's eye view by helicopter, but also do not have some fun. Every year since June 24 is the Torch Festival, Shilin around Yi and Han people and other ethnic groups should be brought together from all directions to the Stone Forest to celebrate the festive season. It was held during the day wrestling, pole climbing, bullfighting and other competitions, yellow flames ignited the fire at night, playing dragon, lion dance, folk dance performances. A small jump on large three-stringed lute dances are the most popular traditional program. Thousands of Chinese and foreign guests enjoy carnival, all night long. Wonderful natural scenery and beautiful combination of cultural landscape is more, Shilin icing on the cake, shake the force multiplier.

Xingzhi Tip:

1, traffic: visitors to the Stone Forest, you can travel by car Kunming Railway Station Square, about 2 hours, preferably in the afternoon before the arrival of Stone Forest, there could be more enjoying to visit; in Kunming have line coach, round-trip ticket 30 yuan . Is also a mere Kunming to Luliang, Luo equal to passenger cars, to the Stone Forest get off fares 10 yuan; Jinhua Beijing Road in Kunming Hotel, directly next to take the tour buses, commuter fares 30 yuan, the general departure time for the morning 8-11, the holiday will be extended 1 hour; Queensland Rail passenger Company started the Shilin, Luliang tourist train, for the convenience of passengers at the Kunming Railway Station, the company specially set up green channels, each stop, visitors can buy on the bus votes. Stone Forest tourist express train directly to the train just 1.5 hours, round-trip fares 30 yuan, 22 per one-way.

2 Tickets: Tickets are 140 yuan Shilin main scenic spot, full Pass.

3, Accommodation: Recommended Stone Forest Hotel, 2 star, this is a national style buildings of the building, visitors can Shilin beauty of the high outlook, standard room from 70 yuan; Shilin summer hotels, 2 star, located in the center of Stone Forest Scenic Area, push window you can see, "Lin", standard room 80 onwards; Yunlin hotels, 2 star, located in Shilin Scenic Area, there are two houses of the composition of the North-South, South House of Stone Forest architecture and nature blend quite a lot of new ideas, house prices 110 per play; Grand Waldo Hotel, 2 star, located in Shilin stadium side of the standard room from 70 yuan, service first-class travel convenience.