Lijiang Laojun Mountain National Geopark
High-altitude Danxia landform of red sandstone fins and pillars, folded into glacier-carved alpine terrain.
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This guide to Lijiang Laojun Mountain National Geopark follows a place where even the surveyors can't agree on the numbers, opening with the shifting official estimates of the park's total area. It explains how the deep red sandstone towers around you formed from the same slow collision of continents still pushing up the Himalaya, folded into a Danxia landform unmatched in scale anywhere in China. Expect a story about geologists tracing ancient lake-bed mud through unimaginable spans of time.
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