A friendly welcome in China

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

A friendly welcome in China

Welcome to my Blog about my first cycle trip in China

in October 2013

I was so pleased to be guided by my friend, Sherman Kwok, who made everything so easy for us. We are thinking of doing guided tours ourselves if anyone is interested!

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1 comment:

noonheart15 April 2014 at 04:27
nice .. i'm happy to read this nice story

thanks a lot
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What are Karsts?

With over 70,000 karst peaks, Yangshuo is a paradise for climbers, and provides a stunning and distinctive backdrop to the area. Here is some more information on the formation of the karsts.

Karst topography is a three-dimensional landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. These landscapes display distinctive surface features and underground drainage, and in some examples there may be little or no surface drainage. The karstification of a landscape may result in a variety of large or small scale features both on the surface and beneath the ground. Mature karst landscapes, where more bedrock has been removed than remains, may result in karst towers or haystack/eggbox landscapes. Beneath the surface, complex underground drainage systems and extensive caves and cavern systems may form. A karst river may disappear underground a number of times and spring up again in different places, usually bearing a different name.

Yangshuo karst formation:
The entire region is surrounded by mountains, while the central part is covered with hills and plains. The karst geomorphy around Yangshuo is an area of irregular limestone formations in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns. This is wide-spread in the region, creating numerous natural scenic spots.

Two crustal movements of the earth took place about 200 and 180 million years ago, thrusting the limestone sediments out of the sea from its seabed, more than 200 meters below the surface to form a large expanse of land. The karst formation became the hills and rocks with the unusual shapes through many years of erosion by the wind and rain. There are many complete karsts, which are of high scientific and tourist value.

Karst caves and stone forests are a key feature of the natural environment of Yangshuo, and being located within the subtropical/monsoon zone, has a warm and moist climate.