玉龙雪山英文导游词范文.docx

玉龙雪山英文导游词范文
locating between 10004 -’ 10016’ east longitude and 2703 -27’ 40’ north latitude, jade dragon snow mountain (yulong mountain) is the southernmost glacier in the northern hemisphere. consisting of 13 peaks, among which shanzidou is the highest one with an altitude of 5,600 meters (18,360 feet), jade dragon snow mountain stretches a length of 35 kilometers (22 miles) and a width of 20 kilometers (13 miles). looking from lijiang old town in the south which is 15 kilometers (nine miles) away, the snow-covered and fog-enlaced mountain resembles a jade dragon lying in the clouds, hence, the name jade dragon snow mountain.
according to the geologists ’ research, for about 400 million years the area around jade dragon snow mountain was the ocean and it was during the last 600 thousand years that the different landscapes had come into being because of the uprising of the lithosphere. archaic legend about this mysterious and beautiful snow mountain goes like this: once upon a time, jade dragon snow mountain and haba snow mountain were twins. they had lived on panning in golden sand river until one day an evil fiend usurped the river. the brothers were very brave and had a fierce fight with the fiend, haba died in the fight and jade dragon drove off the fiend after wearing out 13 swords. for guarding the people and preventing the return of the fiend, jade dragon held the 13