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¡¡Zhijin
Cave
¡¡¡¡¡¡Regarded as " the
first cave on earth", " the king of caves", " the
wonder in the planet", Zhijin Cave is located in the northeast of
Zhijin County, about 160km away from Guiyang, 13 km from the center of
Zhijin.
¡¡¡¡¡¡Zhijin Cave was discovered
and surveyed in April 1980 which was listed as one of the 40 best scenic
spots in China. The cave is highy worth a visit or for survey. The bus
trip from Guiyang is about 3 and half hours, the bus trip is stunning
too but very hard, the cave is recommended to adventure travelers.
¡¡¡¡¡¡Zhijin Cave is more than
12 km long, so far 6km of the cave was opened to tourists, the travel
time in the cave by foot is approxmately 2 and half hours, and it's not
really easy to finish the cave journey, so the ones who can not walk or
climb too far are not encouraged to make the trip. But to be frank, this
cave is the most spectacular one I've ever seen, I've seen lots of caves,
and all of my group members enjoyed the trip, they all said that the cave
was unusual and worth visiting in one's life.
¡¡¡¡¡¡The cave is featured by
large scale, queer wonder and complete accumulated formulations. The average
height and wideness are 40-100 meters, the largest hall in the cave is
some 30000 square meters. It covers a total area of 700000 square meters.
The average height of the accummulations in the cave reaches 40 meters,
the highest one is 70 meters. Many sights in the cave are very queer and
spectacular such as Silver rain tree-the national tresure, General's Helmet.
There are totally more than 40 kinds of accummulations which include most
of the accummulated forms and models of the world and are highly worth
for science study and visiting.
¡¡¡¡¡¡Not too far away from the
cave, there are some Side Comb Miao villages, you may visit the Miao villages,
the Miao women's batik-making and twisted embroidery technique of this
region are marvelous.
¡¡¡¡¡¡The saying " you won't
visit any mountains when coming back from Mt Huangshan" goes well,
I also want to say " you won't visit any caves when coming back from
Zhijin cave".
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