Zhangye Colourful Danxia Landform

With its vibrant colours and delicate ripples, the Zhangye Danxia Landform is about as close as you’ll come to a living watercolour painting. Over a period of more than 24 million years, sandstone and other minerals have been deposited, weathered, and shaped to form brightly coloured outcroppings and hills that are almost beyond belief. Nicknamed the “Rainbow Mountains”, this surreal scenery has been featured in news articles across the globe. Read more about the colourful Danxia on

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