The Zhangye Danxia landform area is known as “the eye candy of Zhangye”. Many artists admire this masterpiece as it is unbelievably colorful, like a n imaginative oil painting .

The Zhangye Danxia Landscape — Red Rocks and Rainbow Ridges

Zhangye's Danxia landscape has lots of precipitous red cliffs, most of which are several hundred meters high, and multicolored ridges of weathered strata, sometimes stretching to the horizon. These formations, sometimes smooth sometimes sharp, stand  out against the greens or grays of the plains , looking grand and magnificent, vigorous and virile.

Across the Danxia landscape zone, a kaleidoscope of numerous red rocky outcrops resemble weird and wonderful shapes like castles, cones, towers ; as well as humans, creatures, birds and beasts. Their peaks peeping through the mist and clouds, produce mirage-like scenery of fantastic mountains and pavilions.

The Guardian featured Zhangye's Danxia Landforms in pictures, and called this fantastic landscape "China's rainbow mountains".

See http://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/aug/01/rainbow-mountains-china-in-pictures.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3838523/Spectacular-pictures-incredible-rainbow-hills-China-result-natural-phenomenon.html

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