Binggou Scenic Area
The Binggou Danxia Landform Scenic Area, known as Ice Valley or the Glacial Gully Scenic Area, is located in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Zhangye City ,Northwest China's Gansu Province. The Danxia landform is a unique type of geomorphology formed from red-colored sandstone and characterized by steep cliffs. The Danxia landform in the Binggou scenic area is particularly known for its magnificence and strange shapes.
Stretching 40 kilometers from west to east, Danxia precipices, stone columns, aiguilles and hills are widely distributed in this region. The narrow hills in the Ice Valley are all pointing to the sky, making this valley the Red Stone Forest of the Great Northwest. Viewed from a distance, the rolling hills look like temples, pagodas, and figures of Buddha, making the valley a natural Buddhist land.
These formations, sometimes smooth sometimes sharp, stand out against the greens or grays of the plains, looking grand and magnificent, vigorous and virile. Across the Danxia landscape zone is a kaleidoscope of numerous red rocky outcrops that resemble weird and wonderful shapes of castles, cones, birds, and towers.
Their peaks peeping through the mist and clouds, produce mirage-like scenery of fantastic mountains and pavilions. Binggou Scenic Area is a part of the Zhangye’s Danxia Landforms.The Guardian featured Zhangye’s Danxia Landforms and called this fantastic landscape as the China’s rainbow mountains.
Stretching 40 kilometers from west to east, Danxia precipices, stone columns, aiguilles and hills are widely distributed in this region. The narrow hills in the Ice Valley are all pointing to the sky, making this valley the Red Stone Forest of the Great Northwest. Viewed from a distance, the rolling hills look like temples, pagodas, and figures of Buddha, making the valley a natural Buddhist land.
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These formations, sometimes smooth sometimes sharp, stand out against the greens or grays of the plains, looking grand and magnificent, vigorous and virile. Across the Danxia landscape zone is a kaleidoscope of numerous red rocky outcrops that resemble weird and wonderful shapes of castles, cones, birds, and towers.
Their peaks peeping through the mist and clouds, produce mirage-like scenery of fantastic mountains and pavilions. Binggou Scenic Area is a part of the Zhangye’s Danxia Landforms.The Guardian featured Zhangye’s Danxia Landforms and called this fantastic landscape as the China’s rainbow mountains.
Travel Tips
Add: Kangle township, Nanyu Yugu Minority Autonomous County,Zhangye City,Gansu Province.
Tel: 0936-6280015,0936-6280018,13519360275
Opening Hours:08:00-17:30
Entrance Fee: CNY100 (Entrance CNY 40 + Sightseeing Bus CNY 20)
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