Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The beauty of Kars and "Sun Go Kong" Cave


Photo or image formation hills of stones in the left-right a river may have been too often we see. Many Chinese paintings presents a picture like that, including images of paper money in the back 20 yuan. That is the beautiful scenery of Guilin has many world political leaders, such as former President George HW Bush together with his wife, Barbara, former President Bill Clinton and his family, and many leaders of China, among others, Den Xiaoping and Zhou En'lai.

They all enjoy the formation of hundreds of Kars hill in the cruise tourism in the Li River (Lijiang) that makes the city of Guilin, south China's part. In cruise tourism, the tourists disuguhi natural beauty and grandeur of China in travel throughout the 40 to 50 kilometers, which starts from the Zhujiang dock or dock Longchuanping, both on the outskirts of Guilin City, and ended up in Yangshuo, a city district.

In the cruise for about five hours, the tourists disuguhi row panoramic hills of stones (Kars) with various shapes and unique natural. The amount of hundreds of shapes and varied, making us very interested to continue to look at the hills that Kars. Aligning the hills Kars in the left-right Li River that provides the "mystery" about how about the environment around Guilin formed in the past. Horizontal lines are clearly visible in the hills Kars is impressive as if the layer of stone for the stone stacked to form a hill.

In some sections, steeply sloping hills that look like dipapas, but it is not the result of human engineering. Among the "Layers" that sometimes we can see the holes cave. In some cliffs, visible writing sculpture Chinese people first. Li River water is quite clear that the rocks look small, grass-grass river, and also fish in the river.

Life of residents along the river that not many can be seen as not many villages around the river. However, in some places, we can witness the activity citizen looking for fish, shrimp or crab, buffalo bathing, and there is also a bit peddle tangkapannya results. You also can visit the Village Yutang, a village on the edge of the river that has been aged 400 years and still maintained the sustainability of various buildings and face the village.

Although quite a long journey, the ship is clean and comfortable and the food and beverage service in the ship make the journey is not tiring. So that is not boring, will be better if you choose a package cross the river while stopped at some point, among other Yutang Village, visiting the Cave Mahkota (Crown Cave), and closed to the opera with Liu Sanjie in Yangshuo.

The most beautiful

In various articles and information on the tour of China, Guilin described as part of China's most beautiful scenery. The city has split the two rivers that flow clear and surrounded by hills with the formation of unique rocks and cave-cave.

Site Guilin Tourism Bureau official, GuilinChina.net, decompose, a formation of hills, the stones is estimated to be formed from the earth plate movements that occurred some 180 to 200 million years ago. Guilin name taken from the tree smells distinctly local and where it had started during the Qin Dinasty, more than 2,000 years ago. Guilin, located in northeastern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a river valley area, which has 4,195 square km and now has around two million people.

Li River has a total length of 437 km from Guilin to join the River and the Xun (Xun Jiang). The length of the river between Guilin and Yangshuo approximately 83 km. For cruise tourism in the river, available for more than 88 ships with various models of interior or the interior of the typical and a total capacity of 8,000 passenger seats fruit. The charge clearly not cheap. For one package, offered from 150 to 250 U.S. dollars.

In addition to the enchantment of the formation of Kars, Guilin and the surrounding objects have many other interesting tourism, among other relics Chengyun Palace, built in the year to-5 Empire Hongwu period from the Ming Dynasty (year 1372). Although most of the buildings surrounding the palace complex and is not genuine because once again destroyed during the cultural revolution, the palace is still looks majestic. This is the embryo of Guilin City in the past called Prince Jingjiang City.

Unique, behind the palace complex, there is a hill, the stone used in such a way that they can be inhabited, cave in to be a place to pray, and at its peak built a small house for a look at the entire city.

Bamboo flute cave

Guilin is also rich with the cave-cavern established a natural in the hills that Kars. One of the cave, which is famous Goa Bamboo flute (Reed Flute Cave). The cave is located at the edge of Taohua River, north-west city of Guilin, the start of the Government of Guilin City in November 1982. Goa is in the "body" of Mount Guangming and have a depth of 240 meters.

In the cave that has been lighting the lamp of various colors, we can see the forms and Stalagmite stalaktit and unique rocks. In the explanation to visitors, who described the shape of similar monkey god Sun Go Kong middle be imprisoned, there also said that as a watermelon, melon and roots that have been silent, and there is also the shapes really like curtains drape.

All the natural formation in the cave can be seen with the beauty of lighting the lamp fitting. There are given the red light, given some other light blue, and there is also a disinari with the yellow light so that a number of stone slab looks like gold. Light effects that make the pied various dimensions of the rocks in the cave is clearly visible, plus the songs sound of birds chirp in the distance that comes from the sound systems installed in the cave.

Unusual, in the cave is a "hall" which is quite extensive and pond water. Structuring the cave good enough to make visitors easily explore the cave until this place terdalam. To satisfy the visitors, the cave is also the manager of the attraction-ray laser, which appear to look beautiful sweep the ceiling cave with the Stalagmite and stalaktit.

Guilin in the air around a cold, with temperature of 18-30 degrees Celsius, enough to pass that we come from the tropics. Experience tour in Guilin will be a difficult experience to remember at the same time emphasize the seriousness and ability to take advantage of China's natural wealth to be sold as an object that hit tourism.

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