You may have experienced extreme weather such as high temperature and hurricanes during your trip, and even caused the trip to be suspended or terminated, but you have also seen wonderful landscapes generated under unique natural conditions during your trip. Coping with climate change has become an important topic in the international context, and travel is also a way for you to deeply understand the serious consequences of climate change and form a healthy climate concept. At the same time, you can also appreciate the beauty of various natural landscapes magnificent.
01Peru
Vinicunca
Vinicunca is located in Cusco, Peru, and the Maori call it Mangaka Kalamia, which means "Mountain of Colored Earth". If you ever get a chance to approach it yourself, you'll see a mountain range of turquoise green, lavender purple, maroon and golden rocks, all colors running along a prominent central ridge to either side, and from a distance it looks like a An Impressionist oil painting with clashing and harmonious colors.
Geological studies have shown thatVinicuncais actually a sedimentary rock. After millions of years of extrusion and precipitation, mountain peaks were formed during plate movement.Vinicuncahas complex geographical conditions. It is located in the Andes Mountains at the junction of continental plates. After experiencing complex geological changes and extreme climatic conditions such as plate tearing, volcanic eruptions, and ocean drying up, it has formed a peculiar "Danxia landform". The "rainbow" comes from the deposition of various elements: iron brings red and brown, iron sulfide brings bright yellow, and other trace elements work together to form the "rainbow" mapped on the mountains. ". When you look at the mountains, you may hear the planet's warm, faint heartbeat.
02 Sweden
Fritillary Cloud
NASA has shown a photo of a fritillary cloud taken by photographer PM Hedén near Tarndale, Sweden, in the Astronomy Picture of the Day. The fritillary cloud refers to a rare cloud of brilliant color, thin and slender that appears at an altitude of 20-30 kilometers in high latitudes. Its color comes from the diffraction of tiny particles in the cloud. The fritillary cloud is named for its colorful colors similar to the common colored light and shadow in shells. This kind of cloud only forms in the place with the lowest atmospheric temperature, about 25 kilometers above the poles in the stratosphere, so it is also called "polar stratospheric cloud".
It is not easy to see the fritillary cloud. It usually appears in the leeward side of the north-south mountains, and it is relatively more common in the Antarctic. During the day, it looks like a thin cirrus cloud, but at sunrise and sunset, it has the sheen of the inside of a clam shell, and the color changes one after another, sometimes very vivid, which is very shocking.
03 Bolivia
Salar de Uyuni
Just imagine: you are standing in the sky, with white clouds floating above your head and feet, looking all over, a blue... The largest salt lake in the world, the Salar de Uyuni, is located in the western plateau of the province of Potosí in Bolivia. When the weather is clear, there is nothing more beautiful than this. The shallow rain turned the magnanimous salt surface into a huge mirror, the ground plane disappeared, and you seemed to be floating in the air. The magical experience doesn't stop there when you climb the Bolivian plateau and visit the 10,582-square-kilometer salt flats. When the lake dries up, the shattered white earth seems to be an apocalyptic scene in "Mad Max" - the sun is scorching hot and there is no one inhabited.
The formation of the Salar de Uyuni can be traced back - due to the lack of precipitation in the area, the dry climate, and the strong evaporation, the water in the saltwater lake continues to evaporate, and finally the salt marsh is formed. Today, when there is a small amount of precipitation from December to January of the following year, you can only see the shocking spectacle of "The Realm of the Sky".
04 Iceland
Diamond Beach
As one of Iceland's many stunning natural landscapes, glacial lagoons and diamond beaches are a must for any trip to Iceland. Although the glacial lagoon is only 17 square kilometers, it is a must-see destination alongside Iceland's waterfalls, volcanoes and fjords. Next to the glacial lake is the diamond beach. Different from the beaches in the tropics, the diamond beach in Iceland is peculiarly black, and there are countless ice blocks like uncut natural diamonds scattered on it. One of the consequences of melting, while admiring the beauty, you get a sense of the urgency of tackling climate change.
Despite the cold weather, you can still choose to sit in front of the wonders of nature on a clear day with a bowl of lobster soup in hand to ward off the cold, gazing into the distance, listening to the crackling of the icebergs, as they drift along the lake The jingle of colliding with each other when out to sea. Seals stick out their heads in front of and behind you, and their splashing sound also breaks the silence. Here, you can feel the grandeur and magnificence of the earth, as well as its fragility and fragility.
05 China
Maolan Karst Forest
Maolan is located in Libo County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, where there are concentrated and contiguous karst forests with strong native nature, known as "the emerald on the belt of the earth". The vegetation in the subtropical region is mainly evergreen broad-leaved forest, while the Maolan karst forest developed in the humid subtropical region is a mixed community of evergreen species, deciduous species and a small amount of needle and broadleaf.
The rich vegetation of Maolan has formed a complex and unique forest landscape: forests above, stone forests below, trees growing on stones, rooting in stone cracks, undercurrents of bright rivers, deep pools and karst caves, combined into wonderful scenery such as water labyrinths and funnel forests. . Although the vegetation vitality of Maolan Forest is tenacious, it is a fragile ecosystem, especially the human disturbance such as logging and fire will make the local damp environment disappear, and the restoration of the forest will become difficult.
06 Egypt
Whale Valley
If you came here in anticipation just because of the name of the Whale Valley, you will be speechless by the scene in front of you - because it is a desert. Whale Valley is located in Fayoum Province, Egypt, and its name is transliterated as "Wadi Ahitan", which means "dry riverbed" in Arabic.
In fact, the location of the Whale Valley 40 million years ago was an ocean called the Tethys Ocean, which later became a continent through plate movement. The rocks that were originally on the seabed were exposed to the air. After years of rain erosion and weathering, they finally The unique landform of Whale Valley is formed. It is also a paleontological fossil field, where people have found a large number of ancient cetacean fossils, recording the evolution of cetaceans from terrestrial creatures to marine creatures.
07 New Zealand
Waitomo Glowworm Cave
The Waitomo Glowworm Caves, full of blue "starlight", are located in Waikato, New Zealand and are a popular attraction in New Zealand. Under the guidance of a local guide, you can take a boat to quietly slip into the "starry" Akuri Cave. These starlights come from New Zealand's unique fireflies, which makes people wonder: Is this an underground aurora?
30 million years ago, the area where the Waitomo Glowworm Cave is located was still a deep sea. After countless crustal movements and volcanic activities, it was brought to the sea level. After rain erosion, many rock cracks were formed. Under the combined action of rainwater and slightly acidic carbon dioxide in the air, the rock cracks gradually expanded into stalactites and stalagmites, finally forming the spectacle in front of us.
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