On August 30, 2008, Tulin Scenic Area was crowded with tourists, and a tour group of 50 tourists from Beijing and Chongqing was going to hold a lively bonfire party here. /kloc-around 0/6: 30, when these passengers were playing in the scenic spot, the earthquake happened. At that time, Joe was in the tourist reception center of the scenic spot. After hearing several loud noises, he soon found that the scenic spot was full of dust.
"No, there are tourists inside!" Joe (the staff of the scenic spot) realized that this was an earthquake for the first time, and he also thought about the safety of tourists in the scenic spot. There are towering columns of earth everywhere in the soil forest. The exposure of the scorching sun makes these soil columns extremely hard, and the sightseeing passages all pass under them. If the earth columns and clods shattered by the earthquake hit tourists, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Later, it was found that two earth holes for tourists to enter and exit in Tulin Scenic Area were blocked by collapsed earth and stone.
Perhaps the luckiest tourists are this group of more than 50 people. At that time, these tourists were taking a group photo in front of a scenic spot called Xiaoxitian. "If it is a group of several people, the speed will definitely be faster. According to the itinerary, it is estimated to be in the 1 hole. " Because there were many people and the speed was slow, the team was lucky to escape, and the earth column in Xiaoxitian Scenic Area did not collapse.
Some tourists began to panic, and even some tourists began to ask the staff of the scenic spot: "Was it like this here during the Wenchuan earthquake?" The staff explained: "Wenchuan earthquake has an impact on us, but there is absolutely no collapse of soil columns." The scenic spot began to organize more than 200 tourists to evacuate in an orderly manner.
On August 30, 2008, the earthquake caused 37 soil forest scenic spots to collapse, including at least 15 large soil forest pillars. Yesterday's two earthquakes caused some loose soil columns to collapse completely. Qiao Pengyun estimated that this large earth column collapsed at least 30 times. Because some tourist passages are blocked by collapsed clods, there are still many places in Yuanmou soil forest within 4 square kilometers without counting the number of collapsed columns. Qiao Pengyun said that if there were no aftershocks, the scenic spots would be inspected and cleaned on a large scale, some earth columns would be reinforced, perhaps tourist routes would be redrawn, warning signs would be added in some places, and even fixed security personnel would be added to some scenic spots. "In short, protecting passenger safety is the first priority."
After the earthquake, some individual travelers came here, but they were all refused entry. A 30-year-old Chongqing tourist almost burst into tears
Yuanmou soil forest is known as the first wonder of soil forest in the world, with a history of10.5 million years. The film and television blockbusters "Riding a Thousand Miles" and "Promise" in previous years were all shot in Yuanmou Tulin, Yunnan. Although the collapse of more than 30 main stone pillars caused by the earthquake is not surprising in numbers compared with thousands of main stone pillars in tulin, the leaders of Yuanmou County Tourism Bureau and the person in charge of Tulin Scenic Area still feel saddened when they talk about this matter.
Joe talked about the impact of the earthquake on Yuanmou soil forest and described it with the words "heavy losses". It is understood that once the soil forest is destroyed, it will not be restored.
The earthquake not only affected the tulin scenic area, but also caused great losses to the office buildings here. The wall on the right side of the scenic spot marked with the words "soil forest" actually collapsed in the middle. Joe said that it was a surface collapse, and the middle part was squeezed alive by the walls on both sides.
Joe estimates that according to the current situation, Yuanmou soil forest will not be reopened until September 20, 2008. "We must recover before the Golden Week."