Source: Huizhou Today
Known as an oasis on the Tropic of Cancer, Mount Xiangtou has long been praised for its beauty. When the Qing Dynasty poet Song Xiang was the president of Fenghu Academy in Huizhou, he was haunted by dreams about the mountain, and wrote a poem praising "the water of the Buddha, the mangy elephant head mountain".
The beautiful scenery is on the side, and the figure of the donkey friend can be seen from time to time.
Water and wood, banyan fruit clusters are very special.
White-flowered paulownia, white-flowered trees blooming in the wind.
From ancient times to the present, the impression of The city of Xiangtou Mountain and Huizhou is closely linked, and if the weather is clear, the crab eye top of the main peak at an altitude of 1024 meters is visible to the naked eye in the urban area. The wonder of "Xiangling Flying Clouds" is like a fairyland, which not only enriches the skyline of the West Lake, but also makes the image of Goose City more warm and full.
The valley is quiet and rocky.
It's April, and the big red cuckoo dots the peaks.
Geological data show that Xiangtou Mountain was formed by the Yanshan movement in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, a large number of granite intrusion, squeezing the earth's crust, so that the stratigraphic folds form a dome structure of the mountain, so the Elephant Head Mountain is grand and majestic, with steep cliffs and exposed granite rock walls, and strange rocks are common. On July 3, 2002, Zhangtou Mountain was promoted to a national nature reserve. Nowadays, the mystery of Xiangtou Mountain has long been unveiled by people, from the concept of geography, it is composed of igneous rocks formed in the Cretaceous Period, creating more than 300 large and small peaks of the strange mountain; from an ecological point of view, Xiangtou Mountain is a rare species gene bank in the tropical region of South Asia in China, the only forest ecological type national nature reserve in eastern Guangdong, and also an important water conservation forest of the East River.
The road winds up the mountain, and you can reach the top without fear of hardships.
Elephant Head Mountain sightseeing, there are mountain views, stone scenery, forest scenery, water scenery, and the cloud scenery is borrowed by the West Lake as "Xiangling Flying Clouds", listed in one of the West Lake scenery.
A few days ago, the reporter drove to visit the Xiangtou Mountain National Nature Reserve and recorded the beautiful Cangshan Forest Sea on Xiangtou Mountain in spring.
Conservation staff sketching flora and fauna.
Elephant Head Mountain is a mountain with 165 steep peaks, and the main peak crab eye peak is 1024 meters above sea level.
Text/Photo Zhou Nan, all-media reporter of Huizhou Newspaper