During the three-day holiday on New Year’s Day, Kunming has been very cold and rainy for the past few days, with only about 10°C. Yuanmou’s altitude is 800 meters lower than Kunming’s, and the temperature is 10°C higher than Kunming. It’s a good choice to visit Yuanmou’s soil forest.
Day 1: Yuanmou Man Museum
I left as soon as I said, booked a hotel in Yuanmou through Ctrip, and took a shuttle bus to Yuanmou at the Northwest Passenger Station in Kunming on the morning of the 30th. It was still raining intermittently in Kunming in the morning, but it cleared up when the car arrived in Wudingtian, and it took only 3 hours to arrive in Yuanmou. The scenery along the way is also very good, mountains, valleys, villages, farmland, green spring in winter.
Yuanmou County is surrounded by mountains on all sides. Rows of wind turbines are erected on the top of the mountains in the distance, spinning continuously under the blowing of the wind. The city is full of the life atmosphere of ordinary working people.
The Yulin Hotel is diagonally opposite the passenger station. It’s past 12 o’clock after checking into the hotel. After lunch, we will visit the Yuanmou People’s Museum.
Yuanmou Man Museum is located opposite Fenghuang Lake Park in the northwest of Yuanmou Town. It is divided into six exhibition halls on the upper and lower floors. "The tooth fossils, as well as the ancient ape and rhinoceros fossils discovered in Yuanmou, have comprehensively demonstrated the history of the evolution of ancient humans and paleontology in various periods.
On October 5, 1986, Li Zixiu, a girl of the Yi nationality, discovered the first fossil of an ancient ape tooth in Liangzi, Baozidong, Zhupeng Village, Wumao Township, and since then opened the prelude to the excavation and research of an ape. Humans originated 7 million years ago, and their evolution is divided into five stages. Humans on land today all come from Africa. Yuanmou Man is a branch that migrated from Africa to Asia 1.7 million years ago. It belongs to the third stage and has been able to make and use tools. . The discovery of Yuanmou Man pushes back the human history in China by 1 million years, and is the earliest ancient ape discovered in China so far.
Genes are software written by nature. All life is the result of the operation of these biological programs. All of us are integrated. Our bodies, intelligence and emotional systems are the results of millions of years of human cultivation. We When we came to this world, we should not only thank our parents, but also our common ancestors.
Day 2: Langbapu Earth Forest
Although Yulin Hotel is close to the passenger station, it is quite noisy around. There is a free market next to it. At night, there are repeated cries from the recording speakers. In the morning, it is relatively quiet, only the crowing of chickens calls for the dawn arrival. No matter how nice the music alarm is on the phone, it sounds cold, but the crowing of the rooster sounds so kind, because behind every sound there is a fresh life.
The bus to Langbapu only leaves at 12:30, so I bought the bus to Dayao at 7:40, got off at Xinhua Village, and then went to Langbapu. In the morning, I had a simple breakfast and went out to the passenger station. There were many people standing on the road and on the street. I thought some unit was organizing activities. After careful inquiry, I found out that this was a temporary labor market in Yuanmou Town. These people came out early. Waiting here to find work. I chatted up an old man and asked him how much he was paid for a day. He said 160 yuan for small workers and 400 yuan for the best skilled workers. The gap between the rich and the poor is not only the driving force of social development, but also the source of social anxiety. After all, there are many poor people in the world.
The car drove for about an hour and arrived at an intersection leading to Langbapu Tulin by the Hewei Reservoir. The driver said that it was the closest to Langbapu Tulin from here, and asked me to get off here and call the inn to pick me up. Although I have worked in Kunming for more than ten years, I still don't understand Yunnan dialect. He probably thought I was staying at the inn I booked in Langbapu. Seeing his good intentions, I got off the car without thinking. I got out of the car and saw that there was no road in front of the village or shops in the back. It was quiet and I was the only one. I couldn’t find a car at all. I turned on the navigation on my mobile phone and saw that there were still about ten kilometers to Langbapu. Along the side of the reservoir, the scenery is also good, so I decided to walk to the Langbapu soil forest, and enjoy the scenery while walking, who knows that this walk is really rewarding.
Jingya Mountain Villa at the intersection of the reservoir hangs a sign of "Water Conservancy Management Office of Hewei Reservoir, Yuanmou County", and a minority language is written side by side, corresponding to Chinese characters one by one, among which "water" and "river" correspond to the same The roundabout symbol, like the character "8" whose top quarter has been removed, seems to be a kind of pictograph, and the river is the concept of water, and because of the obstacles of the mountains, it flows in a roundabout way, which is completely different from the pictograph of the Chinese character "water". different.
Walking along the road paved with stones, you can see the beautiful scenery of the reservoir and the verdant green fields below, which is a peaceful and peaceful scene.
After passing a "Photographer's House" inn by the roadside, distinctive soil and forest landscapes appeared one after another on the roadside, as well as the filming sites for filming in the past, and some facilities still remain.
When we reached the upper reaches of the reservoir, the beautiful scenery remained undiminished. There were still people digging sand in the river, taking pictures while walking, and it took more than 3 hours to reach the Langbapu soil forest.
It turns out that there is only one bus from Yuanmou to Langbapu Tulin at 12:30, and it goes back the next morning. People who come here either live here or travel by car. I checked the information on the Internet. There are two return trips in the afternoon. In fact, it is already out of date. The current embarrassing situation is that you have come but can’t go back. Let’s talk about it after eating and visiting with peace of mind.
Lunan Stone Forest, Yuanmou Earth Forest, and Luliang Colorful Sand Forest are collectively known as the Three Forests of Yunnan. Yuanmou Earth Forest is named for the earth pillars that look like a forest in the distance. It is a wonder in the natural world. Over millions of years of crustal movement, the god of wind and rain carved the land into strange pillar shapes, creating a dream world. Let people lament the greatness and magic of nature. When I arrived at the viewing platform and looked down, I could see the entire soil forest at a glance, with various gestures, which was very shocking.
Coming down from the viewing platform and looking up at the soil forest along the visiting horse trail, what I saw was another scene, as if I had come to the Gothic church built by God for himself. It is magnificent, mysterious and solemn. pray.
After enjoying the tour, I went out of the gate of the scenic spot. There was a female driver waiting for her tourists at the dining area of the parking lot. A Korean couple paid 400 yuan to rent her car. She wanted to send them to Wumao Tulin. Pick up a person to Yuanmou, but the old Korean couple has not come out yet, she is complaining that it is too late to pick up the person, I propose to take her car by the way, and then send me to Yuanmou after arriving in Wumao, she will charge 200 yuan for the flight, and come out to play Just to be happy, don’t let trivial matters affect your interest, she is also running around for survival, and it is my luck to relieve my urgent needs. I didn’t counter-offer, she was very happy, and took extra care along the way, and sent the Korean to the hotel Finally, he took me to the entrance of the scenic spot to take pictures of the gate while there were few people. Sure enough, when I came in the next day, there were many people, and the photos of the gate I took were not as satisfactory as this one.
Day 3: Gomo Forest
Today is New Year's Day in 2019. After checking out the hotel and having breakfast, I arrived at Wumao Tulin in 40 minutes by bus at 9:20. On the bus, I met a backpacker from Beijing. He used holidays to travel around the country every year. He introduced According to experience, at first he booked hotel tickets online before setting off, but he found it inconvenient to be restricted. Later, he always walked one stop at a time, and never booked hotels and tickets first, which was convenient and enjoyable. On the way back, I often waved and hitchhiked on the side of the road. His words "where there is a road, there is a car" inspired me a lot.
When you come to the Yuanmou Earth Forest Observation Deck and look down, you can see the huge scale and grandeur. The various earth forests are set against the background of mountains, like a castle built by the gods for themselves.
Stepping down from the viewing platform into the soil forest, one after another soil pillars stand in front of you. They have different shapes and various postures. Some are shaped like soil buds, some are like spring bamboo shoots, some are like iron hats, and some If the millennium castle. These soil forests are mostly composed of sand and clay, which were deposited in the early Quaternary period two million years ago. The sand and clay contained a small amount of calcareous cement, occasionally mixed with some iron complexes. Over the years, the water absorbs and expands, loses water and shrinks, causing the ground to crack, and the rainwater flows and scours along the cracks. Over time, the cracks continue to deepen, widen, and extend, and the soil pillars are gradually exposed and increased, forming a soil forest.
For hundreds of millions of years, wind and rain have polished rocks into dust, deposited to form soil layers, and as the earth's crust changes, water and soil are lost, and nature carves the soil layers into soil forests with trickling water carving knives. Touching the soil forest with eyes, it seems to have walked into a space-time tunnel, to the distant ancient times. The mixed quartz agate on the surface of the soil pillar reflects the dreamy brilliance under the sunlight, which makes people have to think deeply about the position of human beings in the universe. . In the geological age, life is the details. In the evolution of life, history is the details. In the long river of history, dynasties are the details. In the coordinate system of heaven and earth, everyone is just a gleam. Looking at the living time specimen in front of you, What else can't let go!
After visiting Wumao Tulin, I took a van by the side of the road and returned to Yuanmou. I took the extra bus at 3:50 pm and returned to Kunming for two and a half hours.