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Saipan's nickname is "Pearl of the Western Pacific".

This nickname is not random. Saipan is located at about 15 north latitude. It is located in the surrounding unpolluted waters. The island has many natural scenery, such as the blue hole connected to the Pacific Ocean and the birds that inhabit many birds. Island; there are also many cultural landscapes, such as the American Memorial Park, the "Long Live Cliff" where Japan committed suicide after the defeat of the war, and the Taga House similar to the Emirates Palace left by the Taga people 3,500 years ago; and Spectacular battlefield relics left over from history, such as Gunkan Island, such as the site of the last Japanese command...

Anyway, on this island with an area of ​​less than 200 square kilometers, it can be said that it is a scene of ten steps, with different sceneries.

Of course, since it is an island, how can it be done without a beautiful beach?

In the middle of the west coast of Saipan, there is a sandy beach with a length of about one kilometer, named Mike Beach, which is the most beautiful beach in Saipan.

Because it is located on the west coast of Saipan, the wind and waves here are much smaller than the beaches on the east coast. The white sand is extremely soft and it will be very comfortable to step on it with bare feet. What is especially amazing is that when you stand on Mike Beach and watch the ocean, you will find seven incredible colors in the ocean.

And when the sun goes down, the sky is full of sunset clouds, and you will have a special atmosphere to enjoy the sunset here.

The beautiful and peaceful Mike Beach is recognized as the best beach in the entire Saipan and the entire Northern Mariana Islands.

The Hyatt Hotel Yang Jing booked is located at Mike Beach. The hotel is surrounded by 14 acres of tropical gardens and lagoons, creating a luxurious tranquility in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Yang Jing booked three suites in this hotel under the Hyatt Hotel Group headquartered in Chicago, USA. One is a presidential suite with 215 square meters, and the other two are executive suites with 117 square meters.

These three houses, including taxes, cost Yang Jing US$6,600 a day. However, this price is definitely cheap compared to a suite in a five-star hotel in Paris, London or New York.

After arriving at the hotel, the group arranged the room and covered their heads and fell into jet lag. Flying from Port Moresby to Manila and from Manila to Saipan overnight, it was not only tiring, but also the jet lag was somewhat chaotic. In addition, the sun is abundant today, and it is obvious that you have to deal with strong ultraviolet rays when you go out to play. It is better to rest in a hotel.

After a full night of sleep, after getting up the next day, everyone was full of energy.

Yang Jing was not in a hurry to go to Guam to experience the thrill of flying on an F15 fighter. Chris has rented an eight-seater seaplane with a cargo warehouse to Yang Jing. The most important thing is to go to the Mauge Islands to do business first. Otherwise, there is always a series of transportation lists in his mind, even if he is playing, Yang Jing will not have any interest in playing.

This kind of seaplane does not fly fast, and the flying height is not high, only about 800 meters. If you want to tour the entire Northern Mariana Islands in the air, taking this kind of seaplane is undoubtedly the best choice. Because this kind of aircraft has a range that a helicopter cannot match, and it can land directly on the sea, this is the main reason why Yang Jing chose to fly to the Mauge Islands more than 500 kilometers away by seaplane.

The take-off and landing of the seaplane does not require a dedicated airport, as long as the water condition is good, it can take off and land anytime and anywhere.

The goodness of the Lord was also very generous. The wind was much smaller the next day. Although the sun was still very abundant, it was obviously great to get on the plane with precipitation in this kind of weather.

From Saipan to the Mauge Islands in the north, the straight-line distance is 530 kilometers. In terms of the speed of the seaplane, it takes about two hours to arrive.

Because of the close contact between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Pacific Plate, the ancient, cold Pacific Plate subducted under the young, less dense Philippine Sea Plate in the Mariana Trench. As a result, the upper plate produced a lot of volcanic activity, not only forming the deepest Mariana Trench in the world between the two, but also creating a series of pearl-like islands on the west side of the trench.

These islands are formed by volcanoes and rising corals, along the Mariana Trench that stretches for more than 800 kilometers of island arcs. This string of island arcs is the Mariana Islands.

The northernmost island of the Mariana Islands is a volcanic island named De Pajaros Rock, about 64 kilometers southeast of De Pajaros Rock, which is the Maug Archipelago.

After the seaplane took off from the sea off Mike Beach, it flew all the way north along the Northern Mariana Islands. The pilots were naturally George and Chris.

Driving this kind of propeller plane is not difficult for the two of them at all, and flying in this kind of sea area does not even need GPS positioning. You only need to fly along the series of volcanic islands, and you don’t have to worry about getting lost. Direction, because you can see an island not too far forward, and you can see another island not too far past it.

These islands are the best navigation marks.

Because the flying altitude is only maintained at about six hundred meters, the scenes on those islands can be seen even without a telescope.

For example, when the plane flew over Pagan Island, Yang Jing could even see that the volcano from the north of Pagan Island was still emitting heat.

This Pagan Island is less than 50 square kilometers, but this island is quite a terrifying island. Because this small island is basically composed of two active volcanoes, and in the past century, the two active volcanoes on this island have erupted on a large scale three times.

As early as 1922, the volcano on this island had undergone a large-scale eruption, and then fell into silence. At that time, the residents who had left the island returned to the island again. Later, on this island, an airport and other facilities were built.

But in 1981, the two volcanoes on Pagan Island erupted on a larger scale. This eruption not only forced all the residents of the island to evacuate, but also completely destroyed all the buildings on the island. , Even the airport was swallowed by volcanic ash and magma.

Just like the Rabaul Airport that Yang Jing once saw in Rabaul, this airport built on Pagan Island can only see a little outline now.

In 2010, the volcano on Pagan Island ejected again, and since then, the two volcanoes on the island will emit some gas from time to time. I don’t know that it is the lingering breath of the volcano’s silence again. , Is still brewing a larger-scale eruption.

Anyway, this island is completely unsuitable for people to live in anyway, and no tourists are willing to visit the vicinity of this island. An island that used to be a beautiful island was completely destroyed by the volcano...

Flying about 63 kilometers further north from Pagan Island, we arrived at Agrighan Island, the fifth largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands.

This island, like Pagan Island, is an island formed by a stratified volcano. The entire island is a volcano, which was raised more than four thousand meters from the sea bed and finally exposed to the sea to form what is today Agrihan Island.

Looking down on this volcanic island from the sky, it is easy to recognize that this island is actually a volcano out of the sea. The highest point of the volcano is even more than 300 meters higher than the altitude of the seaplane. However, under Yang Jing's signal, after George lifted the plane, everyone could clearly see the huge crater that was two kilometers in diameter and more than five hundred meters in depth.

In 1990, Agrihan Island also had a volcanic eruption warning. The residents of the four villages on the island were evacuated. However, the warning did not come true, and the huge volcano did not erupt. Later, I saw that the volcano was quite honest, unlike the two irritable big guys on the neighboring Pagan Island, so some residents slowly returned to live on the island.

It can be seen from the dense vegetation on this island that the volcano has indeed been silent for a long time, otherwise the vegetation on the island would not be so intact and dense. In contrast, the vegetation on Pagan Island in the south seems to be the hair of alopecia areata patients + people who have lost their heads~www.wuxiaspot.com~ sparsely, one piece by one piece, not much better than a dog chewing.

When flying over the island, Yang Jing even vaguely saw several houses in the dense jungle near the southernmost coastline of the island. Obviously, these houses were built by the residents who moved back to live.

The plane quickly passed Agrihan Island, and after continuing to fly north for about a hundred kilometers, a volcanic island reappeared in everyone's sight.

As you can see from the map, this island is Asuncion Island.

Like Agrihan Island, this island was raised purely from the seabed by a volcano. The entire island is a huge crater. It's just that this island is much smaller than Agrihan Island.

From the data point of view, Asuncion Island is 3.3 kilometers long from north to south and 3 kilometers wide from east to west, which is almost a circle. The volcano on the island is 857 meters high, only a hundred meters shorter than the volcano on Agrihan Island, and the volcano does not have a very deep crater.

When the plane climbs above the height of the volcano, you can clearly see the whole picture of the island. The eastern half of the island is very steep, while the western half is relatively flat. The vegetation on the volcano is also very lush. After all, although this volcano is also an active volcano, the last eruption was in 1906, which has exceeded 110 years.

Appreciating this series of volcanoes and volcanic islands up close from the plane makes the slightly boring voyage not so boring. After flying over Asuncion Island, at an altitude of close to one kilometer, you can clearly see the destination about 37 kilometers to the northwest-the Maug Archipelago.

The plane adjusted its direction slightly, then lowered its altitude and accelerated towards its destination.

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