Cat Mountain is also known as "the top of South China".
Cat Mountain is ancient, complex terrain, mild climate, abundant water, plant species, with the increase in altitude, the formation of different plant growth zones, known as the living fossil of the hemlock in the cat on the mountain there are more than 200 plants. The territory is characterized by high mountains and dense forests, cool summers and snowy winters, elegant environment and picturesque scenery, and the natural landscape is both majestic, dangerous, secluded, beautiful and wild. Comrade Lu Dingyi, a proletarian revolutionary of the old generation, described it as a collection of "Mount Tai's majestic, Mount Hua's dangerous, Mount Lu's secluded, and Mount Emei's beautiful" in one, and it is an emerging eco-tourism resort in South China in recent years.
1, natural landscape
Mountainous landscape: Cat Mountain is the main peak of the Yue Cheng Ling, the highest peak of the God Cat Peak 2141.5 meters above sea level. The mountain mainly consists of 500 million years ago, the Paleozoic Era Caledonian movement of early granite composition, the stratum is ancient, the mountain body is narrow and long, the peaks are high and steep. There are 10 peaks above 2000 meters above sea level and 68 peaks above 1000 meters above sea level in the district. Cat Mountain summit foot vertical height difference of 1861.5 meters, the mountain is huge, undulating peaks, standing majestically, magnificent, nature hundreds of millions of years of weathering sculpture, the mountain peaks, cliffs, cliffs, there are strange peaks, cliffs, boulders and other geological features dozens of landscapes. The main peak looks like a huge cat prostrate, the shape of God than pretty, majestic; peaks uplift, majestic and upright, Buddha platform cliffs such as chipping, dangerous cliffs ten thousand feet, Xianchou Cliffs deep ravines, thrilling and unusual. The entire mountain landscape with high mountains, peaks and male, cliffs and strange features. The unique mountain environment and climatic conditions of Cat Mountain have formed many splendid meteorological landscapes. Its sunrise, sunset, sea of clouds, rain, ice and snow are extremely rich in landscape value. Mountain weather changes rapidly, unpredictable, often smoky ridge and valley, wind and clouds, a thousand meteorological. Spring and summer foggy season, such as when the sunlight oblique illumination, in the Buddha's Peak area often form a magical "Buddha's light" landscape, seven-color auspicious light, color ring shrouded, such as a dream-like fantasy. Cat Mountain in winter every year there is a big snowfall, and accompanied by the spectacle of fog and water, the top of the mountain everywhere in the wind, silver, enchanting, is the best snow resort in Lingnan.
Forest Kingdom: Cat Mountain's unique mountain environment and suitable climate, providing an excellent habitat for wildlife sheltered environment, biological resources are extremely rich. According to the survey, there are 311 species of known wild vertebrates, vascular plants 2120 species, only the national key protection of 32 species of plants, the national key protection of 191 species of wildlife, is a huge natural animal and plant kingdom. Primitive forest sea: Cat Mountain National Nature Reserve has a vast sea of forests, with a forest coverage rate of 96.5%. The area is far away from villages, there is no arable land, and people are rare, most of the mountainous areas are preserved in a primitive style, and there are primitive forests of 15,158 hectares, which is one of the largest primitive forests in Guangxi with the strongest originality. Inside the forest, there are ancient trees in the sky, thick shade, quietness, dead wood and rotten trees all over, fallen leaves like felt, primitive wilderness. The hemlock in Bajiaotian is verdant and upright, and is one of the largest native hemlock pure forests in China.
Vertical Vegetation Landscape: The vertical landscape of the Cat's Child Mountain is obvious, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain there are bamboo forests, fir forests, evergreen broad-leaved forests, evergreen deciduous broad-leaved mixed forests, needle broad mixed forests, coniferous forests, the top of the mountain mossy forests, shrubs from the meadow and other kinds of vegetation landscapes, the seasonal changes in the colorful and colorful, the forest canopy of forests is gorgeous and colorful. Azalea Sea: Cat Mountain is rich in wild azalea resources. There are 38 species, accounting for about half of the azalea species in Guangxi. Red rock azalea, Cat Mountain azalea, color-changing azalea, gorgeous azalea, beautiful azalea and other kinds of azalea all over the mountain. Especially the azalea resources are concentrated along the old mountain boundary, and there are pieces, groups and clusters of azalea forests along the 5-kilometer-long highway, roadsides, slopes and cliffs with an area of hundreds of acres. Every summer, all colors of azaleas bloom. Ten thousand purples and thousands of reds, colorful mountains, forming a gorgeous ten miles of azalea flower corridor, fascinating.
2, beautiful water scenery
Cat Mountain is the birthplace of Li River, Zijiang River, Xunjiang River, but also an important source of the Liujiang River, the water system is very well developed, there are 39 major rivers. The unique topography and geomorphology make the streams and gullies deep, with huge drop and fast flowing water. Under the protection and nourishment of forest vegetation, the running water flows in all seasons, clear and bright.
Li River Source: Cat Mountain is the source of the Li River, which originates from the alpine dwarf forest wetland of Bajiao Tian at the top of the mountain. The steep mountain range of the Cat Mountain becomes a gentle terrace at the top of the mountain, presenting a more typical river source geomorphology, forming a rare southern mountain swamp landscape. The mossy dwarf forests with minimal topographic relief are dotted with streams and ponds, and the mire and charcoal soil is soft and deep, containing millions of square meters of water. The Li River, with its beautiful scenery, originates from this magical, wild and primitive dwarf forest swamp.
Sugi River Ten Mile Canyon: Sugi River is the source of the Li River, high mountains and deep valleys, the stream drop is very large, in the nature reserve, a short distance of 6 kilometers, the elevation of which 2000 meters down to 500 meters, the formation of a series of waterfalls in a variety of forms, Heigang Waterfalls, Jianlong Waterfalls, Longjiu Waterfalls, the difference in the fall of three Diefeiquan lies in the more than 20 meters, the canyon between the high hanging springs, the silver waterfalls, such as practice, and even more turbulence, Rocky beach, blue pools, water, the water is accompanied by a stream, or quietly flowing, or clattering song, or rumbling and singing, the water scene is connected to the static and sound and color, in the dense primary forest, more clear and bright, beautiful and spectacular, known as the "Ten Mile Canyon".
Longtang River Waterfall: Longtang River is also one of the sources. The place is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, the canyon is deep and narrow, mountain streams from the cliffs down, a drop of more than 20 meters, straight down to the bottom of the pool, such as the white practice hanging, sound like thunder, beautiful and spectacular, waterfalls at the bottom of the large pool of the unfathomable depths of the clear blue, swimming fish into the crowd, is a very attractive landscape wonders.
3, human landscape
LaoShanJieLongMarchHomeRoad: cat mountain LaoShanJie is the red army on the long march over the first mountain. 1943 December 4-8, ZhuDe, zhou enlai, etc., led by the central red army on the long march road through the cat mountain, divided into three over the old mountain boundary, the red five corps and the central cadre corps, the eighth corps in the old mountain boundary and the nationalist two days of fighting, December 8 only to evacuate. The Red Five Army and the Central Cadre, the Eighth Corps fought with the Kuomintang for two days in Laoshanjie, and only on December 8 did they withdraw from Laoshanjie. The Red Army slogans are now preserved in the southern foot of Cat's Hill, Huajiang Township, Qianjiasi Temple, New Wenjia Cave and Tongren Hengyang Hall. According to the investigation, the old house in Danyangtun of Tongren was the place where Mao Zedong and Zhu De lived in those years. When the Red Army crossed the Old Mountain Boundary, it had to endure hardships and sufferings, for which Comrade Lu Dingyi, a proletarian revolutionary of the old generation, wrote the famous chapter "Old Mountain Boundary". Now there are the Red Army Pavilion and the Old Mountain Monument at the Old Mountain Boundary, which is a revolutionary site and a traditional educational base with azaleas on fire in spring and picturesque scenery in all seasons.
Flying Tigers crash site during the war: October 2, 1996, Huajiang Yao farmers Pan Qibin, Jiang Jun in the Cat Mountain Nature Reserve, Black Hill Cliff (Immortal Worries) picking herbs, in the primitive jungle accidentally found the wreckage of a warplane. By the relevant departments of the investigation identified as the U.S. Army World War II-era aircraft wreckage. November 1996, **** and Clinton informed of the discovery, and since then, with the assistance of the Chinese government and the public, the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Missing Personnel Defense, has twice sent officers to the Cat's Hill to search for. The wreckage of the aircraft was scattered in the vicinity of 1828 meters of the black cliffs of Daiyun Mountain, including a number of machine guns, machine guns, bombs, a number of engines, a number of U.S. Air Force logistical personnel relics and remains. Confirmed, the aircraft is the Second World War, China and the United States *** with the fight against Japanese fascist aggression, the U.S. Army Fourteenth Air Force Thirty-five Bomb Squadron of the B-24 long-range bomber, also known as the "Flying Tigers - U.S. Volunteer Air Corps," the warplane, No. 40783. After bombing a Japanese warship anchored in Taiwan on the afternoon of August 31, 1944, the plane was mysteriously lost when it crashed into a black cliff on its way back to Liuzhou base, which had been bombed by the Japanese, and was diverted to Yangtang Airport in Guilin. All ten crew members were killed.
Ancient Human Ruins: 500 meters south of Tongren Village, where the Cat Mountain Nature Reserve Administration is located, is the ancient human settlement site of Danyangtun. The place is a land, three sides have a stream around, one side back * old mountain boundary Yuba Mountain. High out of the surrounding terraces on the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years of residential houses and more than 100 years of large osmanthus trees, picturesque. 1977 in the cultivation of the field unearthed three stone tools: for the stone, stone axe, stone knife, smooth and flat, fine grinding, identified as the late Neolithic artifacts, 4000-10000 years ago, indicating that in ancient times, the cat that is the mountain of human life and reproduction.
4, ethnic customs
Cat Mountain is a Yao, Miao settlement. The villages around the nature reserve are mostly Yao and Miao cottages, Yao and Miao people are simple and kind, hospitable, able to sing and dance. Their dry-fence buildings, embroidered Tang costumes and colorful skirts are unique and rich in national characteristics. Now the cat mountain east foot of the Yao people built a set of food, housing, entertainment as one of the Yao Yuan style bamboo buildings and restaurants, quite popular with travelers. Careful of the ancient forbidden mountain monument by the investigation, in recent years in xingan county huajiang township original thousand temple site, now the red army slogan building wall found in the qing dynasty dao guang year engraved by the ancient forbidden mountain monument two, the monument for the qing dynasty in the middle of the cat's children mountain populace and guangxi guilin xingan and other officials to protect the cat's children mountain water source forest of the history of the record, from this year, more than 180 years, has a very high value of the history of the document. Today's nature conservation is also y inspirational significance.
Scenic routes:
1. The Grand Canyon
Canyon is about five or six kilometers long, the water is blue, the riverbed is wide, the trees are lush and the developed scenic spots are paved with man-made stone roads. About four or five kilometers away from the undeveloped area, there is a protection station guards prohibit entry, violators will be fined and review education. 3 October there is a team of eight people from the top of the mountain through the valley downhill, was caught by the protection station personnel and clashes, and later fined and write a review, high Zhai every 50 or 60 meters posted a group signed a review. Chaoran Grand Canyon has a number of suitable campground section, the canyon tour has half a day is enough. Tickets 30 yuan
2. foot of the mountain - the old mountain boundary - the old mountain gate - the top
According to the administrator: the Grand Canyon is the water source of the Sanjiang River, in order to protect the water source is now not allowed to go up from the Grand Canyon of Chaoran. The administrator also told me that if the canyon from the mountain only seven kilometers, before most people are from the canyon on the mountain, now can only take the car from the mountain road, the whole thirty kilometers (map marked 26 kilometers), chartered car prices to a minimum of 150 yuan.
3. The playground program of the super-renalist resort
Passionate rafting: the super-renalist's three kilometers of leisure self-help rafting, the distance may not seem far, but it is full of thrills and excitement. 88 yuan of the door price is also cheaper than other places, and there are also discounts for group travel.
Related links: flow - floating on the water, the flow of water. Rafting, once a primitive way for humans to wade through water. Rafting originally originated from Eskimo skin boats and Chinese bamboo rafts, but back then it was all about meeting people's needs for life and survival. Rafting became a true outdoor sport only after World War II, when some outdoor enthusiasts experimented with retired inflatable dinghies as rafting tools, which gradually evolved into today's sport of water rafting. Driving an unpowered canoe, using the paddle to master the direction, in the sometimes turbulent and sometimes gentle current downstream, in the struggle with nature to interpret the wonderful moments, this is rafting, a brave man's sport.
Ride the rubber boat downstream, high water, sunshine, surrounded by green hills, drifting in the middle of it, the face is a kind of anticipation - look forward to excitement! Expect thrill! Expect to fight with nature! Looking forward to "no danger" after the relaxation! In the busy city life, people have been looking for such a kind of excitement, a unique feeling different from ordinary life. It is this kind of feeling that makes the urbanites fall for it and make it a part of their lives
◎Pitbull field: it is a group of people divided into two teams, and then in the simple position in the fortifications of each other to shoot the kind of game, like the feeling of gun battle friends can try.
Related links: in the 1960s, the Americans Charlie Nelson (CHARLIENELSON) was the first to use a hair trigger and paintball to shoot at trees or livestock, which is to say that these trees should be harvested or run sick or injured livestock need to be isolated. This method of marking trees with paintballs fired from cars, trucks or horses was not only more efficient but also safer than the old method of tracing signs by hand.
In the United States there is another long-established "survivor game" (SURUIVALGAME) This game is a few people to grab a flag being guarded. Flag guards as long as the hand touches the flag grabbers, it is signaled that the flag grabbers were hit, and therefore should be out of the game field. At the end of the day, the survivor is the one who grabs the flag without being touched.
In 1981, the Americans BOBGURNSEY and CHARLESGAINES first paintball and "survivor game" combination, which is the origin of the current Pit Fight shooting sports. Since then, Paintball has evolved into the team sport of Capture the Flag, and the style of play has grown. It began to spread from the United States to countries around the world.
◎Rock climbing: the lodge has built more than ten meters high professional climbing wall, also equipped with professional climbing coaches and equipment, 50 yuan can climb twice, quite cost-effective. Of course, only those strong and brave lads can climb up the rock face and offer the flowers to their sweethearts, from which rock climbing is said to have come. In fact, this is just a beautiful legend.
Rock climbing is a sport derived from mountaineering and originated in Europe in the 1950s. Because there are few opportunities for the average person to climb mountains, and many more opportunities to climb cliffs, which are more exciting and challenging, rock climbing has rapidly gained popularity around the world as an independent sport that is enjoyed by young people.
Definition: Rock climbing is a sport that utilizes the primitive climbing instincts of human beings to climb crags, crevasses, boulders, and man-made walls made of rock with a variety of equipment for safety protection.
Participating in rock climbing will make you learn to be strong in the fight against cliffs, feel forgiveness in the embrace with mountains, and enjoy the joy of success and victory after conquering the routes.
Because the climbers on the rock face as steady as a gecko, delicate as an eagle, climbing action is very beautiful and ornamental sports, rock climbing is also known as "rock wall ballet".
◎ATV off-road motorcycle: According to the staff, this ATV off-road motorcycle resort in Guangxi is the only one Oh! It's worth trying.
Related: The predecessor of the modern ATV, the three-wheeled locomotive with low-pressure pneumatic tires, began to be sold in the U.S. market after 1960. It started out as a vehicle designed for off-road racing, but gradually became a competition racer, utility hauler, family recreational vehicle, and more. Beginning in the 1980s, various manufacturers began to participate and invested in ATV prototypes for various uses, which resulted in a huge popularity in the U.S. market from 1985-1987, and the locomotive changed from three to four wheels. With the increase in four-wheeled vehicles came the development of four-wheel-drive vehicles, which had never existed before. Because of the demand for practicality, the four-wheel drive ATV market expanded dramatically, and now the ATV trend is spreading from North America, Europe, and Oceania all the way to the world. It's just that in China this kind of vehicle has not yet entered the eyes of the public.
◎Canyon exploration:
This is the source of the Li River, Zi River and Xun River, the original ecological protection is very good, even in the development process has not been almost any damage. The canyon is more than ten kilometers deep, so some people call it "Ten Mile Grand Canyon", the market price of only 30 yuan / person. Into the secluded canyon, in the strange and dangerous both, waterfalls and pools in the beauty of the mountain climbing, through the jungle, feel the Li River source of the thrill, experience dozens of plane kilometers of bamboo forests of the fantastic beauty, it is like a peach blossom garden, so that people are amazed!
The canyon should bring their own dry food, mostly compressed biscuits, beef jerky, chocolate, bread and other portable food. There is no need to bring water because the canyon is full of natural mineral water, you only need to bring an empty mineral water bottle.
Camping in the valley should be chosen early so as not to be inconvenienced by darkness, many boulders are good places to set up tents, dry and safe.
Accommodation:
There are hotels in Gaozhai and at the top of the mountain, Gaozhai has a number of farmer's homestays, which cost 5-10 yuan per night and have local chickens and wild vegetables to eat. At the top of the mountain there is the Yunfeng Hotel, where accommodation ranges from 10-20 yuan and simple meals are also available for sale.
One kilometer from the summit there is the Cat Mountain Summer Resort, which is in better condition, with room rates generally ranging from 200-400 yuan.
The Transcendentalist Vacation Lodge at the foot of the mountain is also a good choice. According to the staff: the lodge hotel adopts a combination of Chinese and Western architectural styles, not deliberately luxurious, not casual simplicity, but a kind of art into nature, creating the warmth and comfort of home in the embrace of nature. The well-designed guest rooms are rich in the exotic flavor of Bali, while also incorporating the simplicity and ruggedness of the outdoors, with a full range of supporting facilities such as restaurants, meeting rooms, recreation rooms, karaoke, and campfire barbecue sites. The rough and unforgettable open observation deck in the corridor reveals a natural flavor rarely found in the domestic area, and the full-open floor-to-ceiling glass windows in the guest rooms allow you to enjoy the charming outdoor scenery in all directions at any time. Here you will enjoy high quality star-level service and feel the warmth of home away from home. The door price is 488 yuan per room (three beds), group booking or not in the peak season, each bed is only a hundred dollars or so, quite a great value!
Camping in the valley should be early to choose a good place, so as not to be inconvenient in the dark, a lot of boulders are a good place to set up tents, dry and safe.
Diet:
The Transcendence Pai not only provides local wild game and local products with full of colors and flavors, but also enjoys food from all over the country, including Cantonese and Sichuan cuisine, sweet, spicy, fragrant or steamed, stewed, stir-fried, and if you are tired of eating domestic food, you can also enjoy exotic flavors of the delicacies. In a word, here you can taste a variety of beautiful food, but also enjoy the beauty of the zero distance from nature, can be described as "color, flavor, shape and meaning of nourishment" are complete ...... so that you ate once, absolutely want to go back for a second time! A few people to partner, each person is only about 20 yuan, eat is also quite rich.
Near the farmhouse restaurant, providing meals are basically some of the Yao family home-made smoked bacon, farmhouse fried, shovel rake, oil tea, etc., the price is relatively inexpensive, but each person at least to spend 10 yuan/meal, the meal is simple, some friends are not necessarily accustomed to eating. Anyway, I do not do such a wrongdoer, tired half a day, should always be in a decent restaurant to treat yourself well!
If you enter the canyon, you need to bring your own dry food, mostly compressed biscuits, beef jerky, chocolate, bread and other portable food. No need to bring water, because the canyon is full of natural mineral water, you only need to bring only empty mineral water bottles. However, you need to pay attention to environmental protection, not littering, otherwise the administrator caught not only will be educated and fined!
Transportation:
Transportation into Cat Mountain:
The time from Guilin to Cat Mountain is about 2-2.5 hours.
1. Take bus No. 1, 100, 99 or 32 at Zhongshan Zhong Road in Guilin, get off at the Mass Intersection Station, walk forward for 40-50 meters, and then take the bus "Guilin - Cat Mountain" at the Xing'an Shuttle Bus Parking Lot. The reference departure time is 10:30 and 15:30, but the 10:30 bus only goes to Huajiang, not to Gaozhai, and it usually departs when it is full, so the driver will not wait. After arriving at Hualiang there will be a large number of vans to Gaozhai at the foot of Cat Mountain (costing about 4 yuan per person); the 15:40 car is directly to Gaozhai, costing about 14 yuan per person or so.
2, take the "Guilin - Xing'an" shuttle bus, tell the driver that you want to get off at Baizhupu, and then at the intersection of the shuttle bus to Gaozhai (here 72 kilometers from Gaozhai), the total cost is also in about 14 yuan. After arriving at Baizhupu, you can also charter a bus with a few people at the intersection (usually asking price is about 60 yuan, exactly how much depends on your ability to kill the price!) The bus will take you directly to Gaozhai. The resort will be just as you see it.
3, if in Xing'an can directly take the car to Gaozhai, there are three buses a day, reference time 9:30, 13:30 and evening, seems to be 16 yuan.
4, of course, you can also directly in Guilin chartered car in, the cost, that depends on your level of negotiation, finalized on the departure.
◎Return transportation:
1. Cat Mountain (Gaozhai) to Guilin bus a day, the departure time is said to be about 6:50.
2. The bus from Cat Mountain to Xing'an has three trips a day, at 8:30, 10:00, and 3:30 p.m.
3. You can take a noodle bus to Huajiang or Baizhupu to transfer to Guilin or Xing'an, and if you go out too late, you can call the noodle bus, but of course, you should memorize the noodle bus driver's phone number in advance.
Special tips:
1, it is best to hire a guide in Gaozhai village, a guide per day 50-100 yuan.
2. Bring snake medicine in case of accidents.
3, wear long pants to prevent the forest plants from scratching your feet.
4, bring a garbage bag to take away the garbage you produce.
5, Gaozhai village cell phone signal is not good, there is no signal in the canyon, the top of the mountain to have a signal.