Diaoshuilou Waterfall
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Diaoshuilou Waterfalls resemble the miniaturized Niagara Falls. Water waves crashing against lava bedrocks are thrown back but roar on, plummeting down from the steep cliffs to the deep plunge pool beneath. The falling water splashes up a misty haze of white and snow-fine water droplets, forming a white ribbon-like mist in the sky as if the Milky Way were flowing back into the pool. The thunderous waterfalls are making a deafening statement. The waterfalls would normally be about 40 meters in width with a drop of 12 meters. In rainy and flood season, Diaoshuilou waterfalls become two or multi-stranded water falls, extending to over 200 meters in width.
The overhanging cliffs on both sides of the waterfalls are craggy and grotesquely precipitous. Looking down into the great abyssal drop, you will be overpowered by a sense of vertigo. A towering and wide-spreading elm tree from prehistoric times stands high and tall among the craggy rocks, becoming a huge canopy made from its dense branches and leaves. Standing on the cliff under the cover of the elm tree canopy is an octagonal pavilion for watching the roaring waterfalls. Metal chains were put around the pavilion, the outlets of the waterfall and the north cliff edges for protection. A hand-chiseled stone-step path leads from the old elm tree down to the plunge pool below. In dry seasons, the pool is smooth and quiet. It is estimated that the pool is 60 meters deep with a diameter of over 100 meters. On fine days, when the sunlight is reflected on the waterfalls, a colorful rainbow is visible. Visitors have never failed to marvel at the spectacular wonder of the nature. As is seen in a poem by some poet, 'the cascades of waterfalls is like the piles of snows, their thunderous sound audible hundred miles away, the misty rainbow hanging over the plunge pool, morning dews refreshing the green banks’.
The waterfalls were created from volcanic eruptions. When the oozing lava met the cool air, it turned into crust, but under the crust some hot airs of the flowing lava were trapped. When the lava become solid cold, the trapped airs found their escapes through the lava crust, leaving many air bubble holes on the lava crust. These air bubble holes late collapsed to become lava caves of various sizes. When water fell off the crumpled lava caves, a spectacular waterfall was then born.
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