There's a place in Sichuan province, where it's almost 40 degrees hotter in the summer, and it's going to snow, and you know where it is?
This place is the Dagu glacier. The Dagu glacier is located in heishui county, aba prefecture, Sichuan province. It is a bright pearl inlaid in the international tourist area of the great Jiuzhai international tourist area in Sichuan, China. Go into the ancient, ancient traces, "the ancient glacier" hence the name.
The highest altitude of the ancient glacier is more than 5000 meters above sea level, the peak is covered with snow all year round, and the spectacular scenery of the colorful forest can be seen here in November, and the winter is suitable for the extreme sports such as ice climbing. There are more than 200 glacial lakes, clear and beautiful.
One thousand years, the ancient glacier is like a girl who's deep in the cabinet, has been not to know, it was not until 1992, Japanese scientists found hidden in the mountains by satellite, she found that is up to the ancient glacier is the world's lowest, the largest area, the youngest glaciers, is also the nearest city glacier, seen so far is glacier area scenery most beautiful glaciers.
Quaternary glacier peak, Dagu glacier is a large flat glaciers, ice caps nearly ten thousand along with the global climate warming retreat, at present, the glacier area of more than 200 square kilometers, ice covers an area of 6.04 square kilometers, the glacier type variety, amazing spectacular. The "U" shaped surrounding valley, ice bucket, moraine lake, ancient ice falls and other geological relics are colorful.
Dagu glacier scenic biodiversity is complete, a wild plant 611 species, 153 kinds of wild animals, sichuan golden monkey, antelope, argali number more than 10 kinds of rare wild animal populations, large quantity, visual field rate is extremely high. The ancient glacier is permeated with historical precipitation, showing a fine collection of folk paintings.
