Saipan's nickname is the "Pearl of the Western Pacific".Saipan, located at about 15 north latitude, is located in the surrounding unpolluted waters, and has many natural scenery, such as the Blue Hole, which connects with the Pacific Ocean, and Bird Island, which is inhabited by many birds; There are also many cultural landscapes, such as the American Memorial Park, the "Banzai Cliff" where he committed suicide by jumping off the cliff after his defeat, and the Taga House similar to the Emirates' Palace left by the Taga people 3,500 years ago; There are also spectacular battlefield relics left over from history, such as Gunkanjima, such as the ruins of the last headquarters of the Japanese army, 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, and the scenery is different.Of course, since it is an island, how can it be without beautiful beaches?
In the middle of the west coast of Saipan, there is a beach about a kilometer long, called Mike Beach, which can be called the most beautiful beach in the whole of Saipan.Because it is located on the west coast of Saipan, the wind and waves here are much lighter than those on the east coast, and the fine white sand is extremely soft and comfortable to step on barefoot.What's especially amazing is that when you stand on Mack Beach and look at the ocean, you'll notice an incredible seven colors inside the sea.And when the sun sets, the sunset is full of sky, and it will be a special style to enjoy the sunset here.The beautiful and tranquil Mack Beach is considered to be the best beach in the whole of Saipan and the entire Northern Mariana Islands.The Hyatt Regency Hotel they booked is located in Mack Beach, surrounded by acres of tropical gardens and lagoons, offering a luxurious tranquility in the Northern Mariana Islands.Ms.
Yang booked three suites at the Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corporation, one of which is a 215-square-meter presidential suite and the other two are a 117-square-meter executive suite.Counting taxes, these three suites need to cost Yang Jing $6,600 a day.However, this price is definitely cheaper than 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 for jet lag.Flying from Port Moresby to Manila and from Manila to Saipan in one day and one night was not only tiring, but also a bit of a jet lag.Coupled with the fact that 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's sleep, everyone woke up the next day in good spirits.Yang Jing is not in a hurry to go to Guam to experience the thrill of taking an F15 fighter, Chris has already rented an eight-seater seaplane with a cargo hold for Yang Jing, and it is the most important thing to go to the Maug Islands to handle business first.Otherwise, there is always a series of transportation lists in his heart, even if he plays, Yang Jing will not be in any interest.This seaplane does not fly very fast, and the flight altitude is not high, only about 800 meters, if you want to visit the entire Northern Mariana Islands in the air, this seaplane is undoubtedly the best choice.Because this kind of aircraft has a range that cannot be matched by helicopters, and can land directly on the sea, this is the main reason why Yang Jing chose to fly by seaplane to the Maoge Islands, which are more than 500 kilometers away.Seaplane takeoffs and landings do not require a dedicated airport, as long as the water conditions are good, they can take off and land anytime and anywhere.And God is also very face-saving, the wind is much lighter the next day, although the sun is still abundant, but in this weather precipitation is obviously very good.The distance from Saipan to the Maug Islands in the north is 530 kilometres in a straight line, and at the speed of a seaplane, it takes about two hours to reach.Because of the close contact between the Philippine Plate and the Pacific Plate, the ancient, cold Pacific Plate subducted under the younger, less dense Philippine Plate in the Mariana Trench.As a result, the plates above generated a great deal of volcanic activity, forming not only the world's deepest Mariana Trench in between, but also a series of pearl-like islands on the western side of the trench.These islands are formed by volcanoes and rising corals, and the Mariana Islands are the Mariana Islands in an island arc that stretches for more than 800 kilometers along the Mariana Trench.The northernmost island of the Mariana Islands is a volcanic island called Depajaros Rock, about 64 kilometers southeast of Depajaros Rock, which is the Maug Islands.After the seaplane took off from the open sea of Mack Beach, it flew north along the Northern Mariana Islands, piloted by George and Chris, of course.Flying this kind of propeller plane is not difficult for the two of them at all, and flying in this kind of sea area, you don't even need GPS positioning, you just need to fly along this series of volcanic islands, and you don't have to worry about getting lost at all, because you can see an island after flying a short distance forward, and you can see another island after flying a short distance from this island.These islands are the best beacons.Because the flight altitude is only maintained at about 600 meters, the scene on those islands can be seen without even a telescope.For example, when the plane flew over Pagan Island, Yang Jing could even see the slightest hint of hot air coming out of the volcano in the northern part of Pagan Island.This Pagan Island is less than 50 square kilometers, but this island is quite a terrifying island.This is because the island is made up of two active volcanoes, and in the past century, the two active volcanoes on the island have erupted three times on a large scale.As early as 1922, the island's volcano erupted on a large scale, and then fell silent, when the inhabitants of the island returned to the island.Later, an airport and other facilities were built on the island.However, in 1981, the two volcanoes on the island of Phagan erupted on a larger scale, which not only forced all the island's residents to evacuate, but also completely destroyed all the buildings on the island, including the airport, which was swallowed up by ash and magma.Just like the Rabaul Airport that Yang Jing once saw in Rabaul, this airport built on Pagan Island can only be seen with a little outline.In 2010, the volcanoes on Pagan Island erupted again, and from then on until now, the two volcanoes on the island have been emitting some gas from time to time, and it is unknown whether the volcano has been silent again or a larger eruption is brewing.Anyway, the island is completely uninhabitable, and there are no tourists who want to visit the vicinity of this island, an island that was once beautiful and completely destroyed by a volcano, and about 63 kilometers north from Pagan Island, you will come to Agrihan, the fifth largest island in the Northern Mariana Islands.Like Pagan, the island is a layered volcano that rises more than 4,000 meters from the seabed to form today's Agrihan Island.Looking at the volcanic island from the air, it's easy to tell that the island is actually a volcano that is exposed to the sea.The highest point of the volcano is even more than 300 meters higher than the altitude of the seaplane.However, at Yang Jing's signal, after George lifted the plane, everyone could clearly see the huge crater with a diameter of two kilometers and a depth of more than 500 meters in the air.In 1990, an early warning of an eruption occurred on Agrihan Island, and all four villages on the island were evacuated, but the warning did not come true, and the huge volcano did not erupt.Later, I saw that this volcano was quite honest, not like the two grumpy big guys on the neighbor Phagan Island, so some residents slowly returned to live on the island.It can also 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 is like the hair of a alopecia areata patient + a person with a top, sparse, east and west, not much stronger than a dog gnawing.As he flew to the island, Yang Jing even faintly saw a few houses in the dense jungle near the southernmost coastline of the island, which were clearly built by the residents who had moved back to live there.The plane quickly flew over the island of Agrihan, and after about a hundred kilometers of further flight, a volcanic island reappeared in the spotlight.As you can see from the map, this island is Asunción.Like Agrihan, the island was raised purely from the seabed by a volcano.The whole island is a huge volcanic crater.It's just that the island is much smaller than Agrihan.According to the data, Asunción Island is 33 kilometers long from north to south and 3 kilometers wide from east to west, almost in a circle.The island's volcano is 857 meters high, which is only about 100 meters lower than the one on Agrihan Island, and this volcano does not have a very deep crater.When the plane climbs above the height of the volcano, you can get a clear view of the island.The eastern half of the island is steep, while the western half is much more gentle, and the vegetation on the volcano is also abundant, after all, although the volcano is also an active volcano, it was last erupted in 1906, more than 110 years ago.Getting a close-up view of the array of volcanoes and volcanic islands from the plane makes the slightly boring flight not so boring.After flying over the island of Asunción, at an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, you can clearly see the Maug Islands, about 37 kilometers to the northwest.The plane adjusted its direction slightly, then lowered its altitude and accelerated towards its destination.