Hezhou Jade Stone Forest

Hezhou Jade Stone Forest is a very rare 'jade stone forest' composed of Han white jade pillars and stalagmites. It was formed more than 100 million years ago during the Jurassic period. Due to the fracture and uplift of the Yanshan period geology and long-term karst erosion and local high temperature effects, coupled with more than 1000 years of tin mining since the Song Dynasty, the regional strata peaks are exposed from the stone buds, the peaks are abrupt, the stalagmites and stone pillars, the ground trough funnels, and the narrow seams are densely covered, achieving many strange natural landscapes such as 'Thousand-Year Camel', 'Air Corridor', 'One-Line Sky'. It stands alone in the surrounding limestone mountains and is praised by tourists as a 'fairyland on earth'. It is called a geological miracle by geoscience experts.
Hezhou Stone Forest has a unique rock composition. Other stone forests are all gray rocks. Only the rock composition of Hezhou Stone Forest is white coarse-grained marble. Most of the stone pillars have been stained black due to long-term weathering of mosses growing on their surfaces.
So the stone forest I saw was basically black. I didn't understand why it was called Jade Stone Forest. It turns out that these black and abrupt stone forests are all marble. The weather was too hot, and there were not many tourists in the scenic area. In fact, driving through these scenic spots in Hezhou, the scenery along the way is very beautiful, with peculiar karst landforms and beautiful mountains. After visiting the Jade Stone Forest, I drank a few cups of tea in the tea room, bought some local dried mushrooms and kudzu root powder, and had a very comfortable half-day time.

Post by DiscoveringAdventures | Jan 11, 2024