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Yadan Nalional Geologic
Park in Dunhuang |
.jpg) It, located on a dried up riverbed,
stretches 25km in length
and 1-2km in breadth t,
185km away from Dunhuang
city, 85km west of Yumenguan
pass. It is composed of
group of wind-eroded barren
grotesque hillocks. It is
imposing and broad in scale
whether individual or the
whole. It is rare and seldom
to see elsewhere in the
world. It has the local
name of devils town.
It takes about an hour to
ride to the well-known pass
of Yumenguan passing through
a vast land of the Gobi
desert, then you continue
to ride for 85km westwards
along the ancient silk road
on Sule riverbed. During
your journey they can sight
ruins of watch towers doted
along the Great Wang of
the Han Dynasty and see
marshland and grassy marshland
joining together. Reads
grow thickly on lakeside
and waterfowls are sporting
on lakes. Wild ducks or
geese or swans flap wings
are flying to the sky. What
people see is as beautiful
as a picture. Gradually
marshland in front of you
dried up and grassy marshland
disappeared, the riverbed
is covered with sand and
there is again the boundless
and indistinct Gobi. Then
you’ll surprisingly find
there are row upon row of
mounds towering aloft, scattered
here and there. Some of
them look like high buildings;
some of them look like churches,
mosques, yurts (tent), as
well as lions, camels and
tortoises. Even people could
find the Temple of Heaven
in Beijing, the Palace in
Tibet, the Pyramid and Sphinx
in miniatures. They look
like sculptural works, remarkable
true to the real. Placing
yourself among them , you
feel as if you were in a
museum of architectural
works. The eye cannot take
it all in .
Looking from afar in a fine
ray, mirage is in wide expanse
of misty, the whole “Town
of Devils” looks like floating
on it. In the evening, mirage
vanished, it is mysteriously
shrouded in afterglow. When
night has fallen, the wind
howls and it is enveloped
atmosphere full of terror
in a curtain of darkness,
which makes people ‘s hairs
stand on end. |
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