As winter comes, some people like to go to the south to escape the cold, while others like to go to the north to play in the snow. As a southerner, although Yufan often flies around and plays around, in winter, he still likes the ice and snow in the north. In my opinion, there is no winter without ice and snow, and winter should look like winter. So in just one month, I flew to Xinjiang twice and spent more than 20 days here.
When visiting Xinjiang, Tianshan is a must-go place. As a world natural heritage and a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, it is not only a tourist card in Xinjiang, but also one of the top ten famous mountains in China. There are not only many long-standing historical cultures, but also charming Among them, the Tianchi Lake in Tianshan Mountain is world-famous. Although the Tianchi Lake has been frozen by ice and snow this season, its charm is still undiminished.
However, what Yu Fan wants to introduce here is not Tianshan Tianchi, but the Maya Mountain cableway above Tianchi. This is the steepest cableway in China and one of the most beautiful cableways.
According to reports, the Maya Mountain cableway adopts the world's most advanced single-cable loop detachable grip cableway, which was designed and installed by French POMA company. With a total investment of 80 million yuan, it took two years to complete. The entire length of the cableway is 1,000 meters. The top of the cableway is 3,056 meters above sea level, with a drop of about 500 meters. The uphill section has an ascent angle of almost 70-80 degrees. It is the steepest cableway in China. A short section of the cableway forms a 500-meter cableway. gap.
On the cableway, you can overlook the famous Tianchi Lake in Tianshan. It is said that this is the place where the Queen Mother of the West practiced and where she met King Mu of Zhou. It is one of the two Tianchi Lakes in my country and the most famous scenic spot in Tianshan Mountain.
If you are lucky, you can also meet the sea of clouds in Tianshan Mountain when you take the cableway, just like the poet Li Bai described in his poem "Moon at the Pass of Mountains", the bright moon rises from Tianshan Mountain, and the vast sea of clouds is in the sky.
It takes only a few minutes to take the cableway up the mountain to reach the top of the mountain at an altitude of 3056 meters. This is an excellent viewing platform overlooking Tianchi Lake and Bogda Peak. If you feel that the top of the mountain is too cold, there is a The cafe has heating inside, like a warm haven. Many people will take pictures on the viewing platform for a while, then enter the cafe to warm up for a while, and then go out to take pictures.
If you don't want to take the cableway, you can also walk up the mountain along the plank road up the mountain, but the mountain road is rugged, the snow is thick, and it is not easy to walk. It takes about 2 and a half hours to get to the top of the mountain (depending on the speed of travel).
Although the cableway is only 1,000 meters long, the name of the steepest cableway in China is well-deserved. If you look carefully, you can find that the supporting tower of the cableway is not 90 degrees perpendicular to the ground, but slightly inclined outwards. This is estimated to be in line with the operation of the cableway. It is related to the force in the cableway, which is extremely rare in the same type of cableway in China, so it is also well-founded to say that it is the most advanced cableway in China.
The entire cableway is like a moving viewing platform, which not only has a wide field of view, but also can truly experience the magnificent landscape of "walking in the clouds, and the fairyland is on the side". Going up along the cableway station, there is still a section of mountain road that can continue to go up. Along the way, you can pass Huixiantai, Xianglutai, Lingshan Temple, Dingtian Sanshi and other landscapes. The towering Bogda Peak, the main peak in the eastern part of Tianshan Mountain, is very close at hand . Arriving at the top of Maya Mountain, you can also see the wonders of Cuiwei on the cliffs and the forest of stone peaks.
