Driving on the Lanying Grand Canyon Hanging wall highway - Chongqing, China
Lanying Grand Canyon Hanging wall highway, located in the "Asia's deepest valley" - China's Lanying Grand Canyon Scenic Area, is a well-known tourist attraction in the scenic area, known as "China's most beautiful cliff road". The cliff road hangs on the cliff on the east side of the canyon, winding and narrow, with a total length of 1,200 meters and a width of less than 3 meters.
Lanying Grand Canyon Hanging wall highway, also known as Lanying Sky Road, is a life road for local (small place name: Zhoujiaba) villagers to travel. Because the mountains around the canyon are steep and steep, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the local villagers have long relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, and live in the mountains, on the upper side of the canyon, above 1000 meters above sea level - Zhoujiaping has formed a small village with a living scale of more than 50 households, but because of the canyon cliff barrier, it is difficult to open up the external connection road, the local villagers can only rely on climbing the cliff wall of more than 1000 meters high to visit relatives, go to school and seek medical treatment, travel is very inconvenient, most of the villagers choose to relocate, join relatives and friends, only 23 households and 83 people are left before the construction of the hanging wall road. In order to change this dilemma of poverty and backwardness, on the night of the first month of 2001, the then secretary of the village branch organized a bonfire courtyard meeting, boldly put forward the idea of self-raising funds and digging a road from the cliff, which was supported by all the villagers, and thus opened the prelude to the construction of the wall-hanging sky road. The villagers invest money to raise funds, contribute people, men, women and children work together, day and night do not stop, the tools are the traditional steel drill and hammer, the method is the ancient shoulder pick and back grinding, just like this hammer hammer knock, inch by inch chisel, it took 4 years and 3 months, in the vertical height difference of more than 1000 meters between the cliffs and cliffs to chisel out the world-shaking "hanging wall road", the end of the villagers climbing the cliff in and out of the village history, created the "split mountain to open the road, fight the sky and fight the earth" of the road construction spirit. The touching story of the road digging behind it has been on CCTV many times, and it has quickly become an "Internet celebrity road", attracting many tourists to come to "check in", and it is also praised by tourists as "the road to get rich on the cliff".
Visit the Hanging wall highway, starting from Wuxi County, Chongqing, passing through Wushen Road (Wuxi to Shennongjia) to Tongchengchang Town Branch, keep right to the direction of Lanying Grand Canyon Scenic Area, and travel to the panoramic view of the canyon to arrive at Lanying Hanging wall highway. On the opposite side of Tianlu is the highest peak of the Daba Mountain Range at an altitude of 2,796.8 meters, Yintiaoling, which is now a national nature reserve. Below the highway is the "deepest valley in Asia" with a drop of more than 1,000 meters - Lanying Grand Canyon. Standing on the Hanging wall highway, looking down, the Lanying Grand Canyon, which is famous for its peak danger, strange mountains, stone monsters, clear water, secluded caves, rare birds, and strange beasts, has a peculiar landform, majestic and majestic, clouds and mist, the sky is blue and clear, and the water is clear and tranquil, it is a rare landscape gallery in the world, with magnificent natural scenery in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the strange appearance of the steep canyon, which makes the world marvel and shock!
Location: Lanying Township, Wuxi County, Chongqing City, China
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