Xingyi, located at the junction of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou, has always been an important business center in southwest China and is known as the crossroads of Guizhou and Guangxi. Malinghe Gorge Scenic Area is located between Wumeng Mountain in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau uplift and Guangxi hills. Carbonate soluble rocks are widely distributed, and rock cracks and folds are relatively complex. There are many levels and types of karst landscapes here, which constitute the karst scenery in China. Malinghe Canyon Scenic Area competes with Huangguoshu Waterfall and Shilin, South Yunnan Road, and becomes an important tourist destination in Guizhou.
Maling River Canyon is famous for its bravery, strangeness, danger and beauty. This is a deep ground fissure cut by nature's orogeny. The whole canyon group is a very fresh and charming natural landscape belt, with waterfalls, connected caves and green ancient trees on the shore. Maling River originated in Baiguoling, Wumeng Mountain, and there are horseback Dazhai and Malingzhai on both sides of the river, hence the name. In the process of about 1000 km from the river to the estuary, the river drop is close to1000 km, and the cutting ability of the river is so strong that the Maling River Canyon with a length of 74.8 km is cut on the flat plain at an altitude of 1200 m. At the same time, because there are many tributaries on both sides of Maling River, the cutting speed of tributaries obviously lags behind the mainstream, and hundreds of waterfalls over 100 meters fall into deep valleys.
Malinghe Canyon is narrow and deep, with an average width and depth of 200-400 meters. The narrowest part is only 50 meters and the deepest part is 500 meters. This contrast is also rare in world-famous scenic spots. Malinghe Canyon can also be divided into Donglang Hot Springs, Colorful Promenade, Star Promenade and Zhaojiadu Scenic Area from top to bottom. The whole canyon has nurtured hundreds of paintings, waterfalls, curtains and amazing spring wonders. Its hollow valley has been deeply cut off, and the two walls of the valley are colorful, like a mural, with more than 1 10; There are 56 waterfalls in the scenic area, with a height of120-170m and a width of 5-100m. The waterfall flows down like a gap in the Milky Way. There are more than 100 deep-water water curtain cave in the scenic spot, like hundreds of curtains. There are more than 120 famous springs along the way, such as Xixin Spring, Chelang Hot Spring, Yanqian Spring, Temple of Heaven and Ditan.
Maling River Canyon can be seen from the upper edge of the valley or drifted to the bottom. It is here that China hosted the China International Raft Championship for the first time, so it has the reputation of being the first raft in China. The whole canyon is 47.8 kilometers long, with cliffs on both sides. The river is slow and urgent, with a natural drop of more than 200 meters, which was stimulated by the strange dangers flowing down the river. At the same time, there are 18 beaches, 20 bays and more than 30 pools along the way, and you can enjoy the richest natural landscape in the canyon when the peaks turn around.