The Chinese people are often called “the descendants of the dragon”. If you want to appreciate various shapes of dragons, you must come to Lingshan Dragons Cave, which lies at the foot of Mountain Lianhua in Lingshan Town, Quyang County.
According to the experts' research, the area around Dragons Cave is typical karst relief with fissure-typed natural karst caves formed by diastrophe within more than 100 million years. Dragons cave is just like a 2,800-meter-long dragon, and most of the sights in the cave are also in the form of dragons. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, with a constant temperature of 17 to 18 ℃.
Dragons Cave consists of three parts, namely, the Ancient Ape Men Cave, the Dragons Palace and the Underground Maze. The Ancient Ape Men Cave is several hundred meters long. In the cave, the deposit of the ashes left by the ancient ape-men living here is 12 meters long, 3 meters wide and 2 meters deep, a rare scene in China. In the depth of the cave, there is the deposit of the fossils of the animals becoming extinct 260,000 years ago, which is found for the first time in Hebei and is of significant archaeological value. On the upper wall of the cave, there are two Chinese characters “蓬莱”, an authentic calligraphic work by Su Shi, a great man of letters in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Dragons Palace. white dragons are contending for hegemony. In the Underground Maze, there are winding paths and corridors, which make it mysterious. The sights in Dragons Cave are characterized by mystery, peculiarity and wonder. There are more than 100 natural sights such as Cloud Brook and Flower Path, Magic Pin in the Sea, Small Three Gorges as well as Mountain Gold and Sifter Valley. After the national tourist experts' investigation and reasoning, such human ruins as stone paper, stone valley and stone hair are regarded as rare sights throughout China.
Admission fee: RMB ￥ 25 per person |
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