The three natural bridgesGood morning, ladies and gentlemen,Welcome to chongqing! I am very glad to be your local tour guide for today’s visit! And now we are on the way to the 3 natural bridges and it will take us about 2 hours to get there, so first let me introduce my team and give you an overview of our today’s scenic spot! My name is zhang jingying. You can just call me Angela if that is easier for you to remember. This is our driver Mr. Wang. You can just call him laowang. He has about 10 years driving and working experience in the travel industry. So you are in very safe and competent hands. We are from china youth travel service, chongqing branch. On behalf of our company, we’d like to extend a warm welcome to you. Welcome to china. Welcome to chongqing! And we will try our best to make your visit a very pleasant and enjoyable one! During the tour if you have any questions or some good ideas please point them out or just tell me, I will try my best to satisfy you. And let me give you a brief introduction of wulong karst, where the 3 natural bridges locates! Wulong Karst, an important part of South China Karst, is situated at the lower reaches of the Wujiang River southeast of Chongqing. It was named as a world natural heritage by UNESCO in 2007. Wulong Karst features spectacular karst landscapes,including the three main parts of Furong Cave, Three Natural Bridges and Houping Tiankeng (Houping Giant Doline).Wulong Karst is a valuable treasure that nature created. It is a cluster of several karst landscapes, consisting of gorges, natural bridges, caves, eroded dolines, shafts and underground streams. These karst landforms developed in the carbonate rocks, vividly recording the development and evolution of karst terrain in the Three Gorges area since Pleistocene Era. Furong Cave, Three Natural Bridges and Houping Tiankeng are the three representative karst landforms, developing under the condition of intermittent uplifting movement of the earth. And our destination today The three natural bridges constitute the largest natural bridge cluster in Asia, and the natural karst bridges are quite high and grand, a sight rarely seen anywhere in the world.Three Natural Bridges is located 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Chongqing City in Wulong County. It is a rare geological wonder and an eco-tourist's delight. It features three natural karst bridges: Tianlong Bridge, Qinglong Bridge and Heilong Bridge. The three natural karst stone arch bridges, with an average height of over 200 meters (656 feet), and an average span of over 200 meters (656 feet), constitute the largest natural bridge cluster in Asia.The three natural bridges are situated in a 1.5 kilometer (12 mile) - long gorge. They evolved due to tectonic uplift and the erosion by underground water. Some parts uplifted forming the bridges, and others collapsed to form karst pits. Therefore, the unique landscape of 'Three Natural Bridges enclosed with Two Pits' is solely nature's creation.So next let me! give you a brief introduction of the 3 bridges respectivelyThe first one is Tianlong Bridge. It is about 235 meters (656 feet) in height, 147 meters (328 feet) in width. It spans 450 meters (1,476 feet), and has two arches from south to north. The south arch was also called Mihun Cave. The northern arch is a passage. The buildings at the bottom of the stairways (photo below) were built as a movie set for the 2006 film Curse of the Golden Flower starring Chow-Yun Fat and Gong Li. In the movie Curse of the Golden Flower, ninjas were filmed sliding down ropes to attack the compound, as can be seen in the movie still below. The second bridge, Green Dragon (Qin Long), is a short walk downstream from the larger bridge. Qinglong Bridge is about 350 meters (1,148 feet) high, 150 meters (492 feet) wide, and spans over 400 meters (1,312 meters). After the rains, a waterfall pours over the bridge and forms a mist. When the sunset reflectson the mist, a colorful rainbow emerges like a dragon ascending to the heaven. Heilong Bridge has a deep and long arch passage, like a black dragon winding its way out from the passage.The third bridge, Black Dragon (Hei Long)is a waterfall natural bridge eroded through Wulong Karst. It is the easternmost of a cluster of three large waterfall natural bridges.There are weeping waterfalls within the opening. The span is estimated at 60 feet and the height is estimated at 380 feet. To get back to the car park, you have a choice of ascending 1000 stairs past the third bridge, or go back the way you came, up through the first bridge to the glass elevator. In 2010 a new road has allowed for van service to pick you up in the gorge and take you back to the car park for a fee. There is also a fee for the elevator but the other entrance is free and is used by vendors who sell food and souvenirs to the tourists.Heilong Bridge is also renowned for its four springs with tortuous trickles of stream. The Three Natural Bridges is a karst stone arch bridge cluster unrivalled elsewhere of Asia in terms of height and the thickness of the bridge surface. It is magnificent.。