Zhijin Cave
Location: Zhijin County, Guizhou Province
Transportation: Bus from Anshun, or Long-Distanced Bus from Guiyang City
Culture/History Rating: 1/5
Scenery Rating: 4/5
Hotels: N/A
Summary: I heard that this is one of the best limestone (again or whatever that is called) cave in china. It is also one of the largest one found in China. There's a saying that after seeing this one you would stop seeing caves...I am not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Description:
| Lying in Zhijin County, 152 km away from Guiyang and 123 km away from Anshun, Zhijin Cave is a wonder created by nature and is honored "King of All Caves". It is enormously large with fantastic views. Different forms and types of karst caves that may exist in the world can be found in it. The unusual moonstones and the gooseneck growths in the crystalline palace are a rare sight and remain a mystery to scientists. |  |
 | The sights to be seen inside the caves are indeed spectacular and the cave systems there are rock formations of almost every conceivable kind, all of outstanding beauty, Besides the large number and variety of formations that have been produced in the normal karstic, there are also some extremely convoluted and rare rock formations, gypsum cave swards, enormous transparent blossom stalagmites, beautifully-formed pebbles, fungus-shaped stone and an underground pagoda-shaped and pinnacled curtain of stupendous scale. |
| Zhijin Cave includes ten parts with 47 galleries inside and with all kinds of limestone formations. The total space is 350000 sq meters. The patterns of karst accumulation include many shapes and formations. The magnitude of its scale makes it unique in the world. The whole scenic area consists of four parts: the ancient town of Zhijin, the Zhijin Cave, the Jiehe River and Hongjiadu Ferry.
In this huge underground palace, visitors can see various waterfalls, huge stone curtains, stone flowers, stone pillars, stonewalls, even stone flags and stone brushes. It is hard for anyone to describe this wonder of nature and nature has made them so vivid and so splendid that when coming in, visitors are as dazzled and excited as if stepping into a fairyland. One seems to see the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King or the Gorgeous Southern Gate of the Heaven, or the Fairies and Immortals. It all depends on one's imagination. |  |
 | In the cave, visitors feel they are stepping into a stone world and there are forests, mountains, rivers, valleys, waterfalls, caves in cave or above cave, even a pastoral land. And here and there one can see stone bridges, terraced fields and zigzagging paths leading to a further place. Visitors are often enthralled and intoxicated by the powerful scenery in the cave. Visitors have to remember the size of this underground world, and only half of the parts are open to the tourists. It takes at least three hours to enjoy most of the 47 galleries. There are always some strange looking stone formations or unexpected surprises. |
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9.0 | 11.0 | 17.0 | 22.0 | 25.0 | 27.0 | 29.0 | 29.0 | 26.0 | 21.0 | 16.0 | 11.0 |
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2.0 | 3.0 | 8.0 | 12.0 | 16.0 | 19.0 | 21.0 | 20.0 | 17.0 | 13.0 | 9.0 | 4.0 |
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rainfall (mm) |
20.0 | 20.0 | 35.0 | 95.0 | 185.0 | 215.0 | 175.0 | 135.0 | 110.0 | 95.0 | 55.0 | 20.0 |