A trip to Arxan - big feet hump Tianchi and Turtle Rock ! 阿尔山之旅— 大脚丫驼峰天池和龟背岩 !

After visiting the beautiful cockoo lake, our next stop is the hump Tianchi and turtle rock. The hump Tianchi is named after watching from the far peak just like the camel, which is an important part of Arxan national Forest Park.

The Tianchi Lake is a high lake formed after the volcanic eruption. The surface of the water is 1284 meters above sea level. The shape of the lake is very similar to the left foot of the man. I call it the big foot tianchi. East and West, about 450 meters wide, about 800 meters north and south, it is estimated to be formed 300 thousand years ago.

The road leading to Tianchi is paved with stone steps, and there is a slow step on several steps. The old and the children can climb up the hump Tianchi and enjoy the beautiful hump tianchi lake . Along the steps up, surrounded by a wealth of vegetation, people feel relaxed, completely forgot the hard work of climbing!

These are very precious Chosenia and larch trees. they all have the brands with logo. You can also see the beautiful flowers ! Smell the scent all the way !

When you climb the viewing platform on the top of the mountain, you suddenly feel how wide and bright it is! Between the blue sky and white clouds, green mountains and rivers, to experience the kind of quiet lake which brought you quiet and spiritual purification. Language is too pale to describe it . The scene should only be in the sky not in the human world !

It just like a giant left his left footprint on the top of the mountains, which were magnificent and verdant. This picture is not taken by me . I just take it from Baidu and let you see the lake clearly .

Picture source : Baidu

Up to now , there are several mysterious about Tianchi: First is the long drought does not dry up, the rain does not overflow, the water level isn’t rising up or down; Second no river can get into the lake and no water can flow out . Third the pool was very clean but no fish in it. The fourth one is nobody really knows how deep it is !

Next we came to the turtle rock. The turtle rock geological structure is very rare in China, It is called by experts "national treasure"in the volcano. Turtle Rock is encrusting lava flows, and the formation of different direction of mesh cracks due to the cooling shrinkage of volcano lava flow case, then there are many lava filled fracture, the formation of the lava flow was irregular polygon. Because of this kind of multilateral shaped like a turtle, so called "lava turtle structure", also called "turtle rock".

Turtle Rock looks iron gray, not good-looking, but very spectacular. Walk on the turtle rock side, you will feel a turtle group came to the deep forest floating on the hot spring. Let people feel the strong power of nature.

Thanks for reading and hope you like it !

游完美丽的杜鹃湖，我们的下一站便是驼峰天池和龟背岩。驼峰岭天池因远远看去像一峰俯卧的骆驼而得名，是阿尔山国家森林公园重要组成部分。驼峰岭天池是火山喷发后火山口积水而形成的高位湖泊。水面海拔1284米，水面的形状很像人的左脚，我叫它大脚丫天池。东西宽约450 米，南北长约800 米，估计形成于30万年前。

通往天池的路铺成了石板台阶，几个台阶就有一个缓台，老人儿童都可以登上驼峰岭，欣赏美丽的驼峰岭天池。沿着台阶上去，周边是丰富的植被，让人心旷神怡，完全忘却了登山的辛苦！

这是钻天柳、落叶松、白桦和山杨等林木，还有柳兰、金露梅、绣线菊、刺枚蔷薇等花草，各种树木都有品种标牌竖立在路边。虽然走着山路，但边走边赏各种奇花异木，使人不觉疲劳乏味。

当爬到山顶的观景台时，眼前豁然开朗。蓝天白云之下，青山翠绿之间，那一池神水时而幽蓝如海，时而碧绿如玉，时而静如凝脂，时而动如波纹。语言在它面前，是那么的苍白无力。此景只应天上有，人间哪得几回闻！

驼峰岭天池犹如一个巨人，将他的左脚印，镶嵌在雄伟瑰丽、林木苍翠的高山之巅。

到今天为止天池仍有几大神秘：一是久旱不涸，久雨不溢，水位不升不降；二是没有河流注入，也没有河道泄出，一泓池水却洁净无比；三是这里却没有鱼，投下鱼苗也全部消失无踪；四是深不可测。

接下来我们就是龟背岩了。龟背岩这种地质构造在我国很罕见的，被火山专家称为火山中的“国宝”。龟背岩属结壳状熔岩流，火山喷发的熔岩流表壳由于冷却收缩而形成方向不同的网状裂隙，之后又有熔岩流多次充填裂隙，最终使平整的熔岩流呈不规则排列的多边形。因为这种多边形状似龟背，所以叫“熔岩龟背构造”，又叫“龟背岩”。

龟背岩呈铁灰色，不好看，但是很壮观。从这些龟背岩旁走过，就好像成群的神龟来到这林海深处泡温泉一样，让人感慨大自然的鬼斧神工！

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