Jiuxiang scenic spot

Jiuxiang scenic spot is located in Jiuxiang Yi Hui Township, Yiliang County, Yunnan Province. Jiuxiang is located in the golden tourist line from Kunming to Shilin. It is a scenic spot mainly composed of karst caves and is a national key scenic spot.

When you travel to Yunnan, there is a popular saying: you can see the stone forest on the ground, and you can visit Jiuxiang underground. The beauty of the stone forest lies in the peak, and the beauty of the nine townships lies in the valley. Jiuxiang karst cave Group originated in the ancient dolomite 600 million years ago, with a total of hundreds of large and small karst caves, known as the hometown of karst caves. In Jiuxiang, you will see that there is a hole in the cave, a river in the cave and a sky in the cave. As a folk saying goes, "Jiuxiang Cave is ninety-nine, after counting the caves, the head turns white.". Many tourists said with emotion: "if you don't visit Jiuxiang, you will come to Yunnan in vain.".

Yiliang Jiuxiang scenic spot

synonym

Jiuxiang scenic spot generally refers to Yiliang Jiuxiang scenic spot

Jiuxiang scenic spot in Yiliang is located in mountainous area with cool climate, continuous peaks and valleys. The relative elevation difference between peaks and valleys is about 200 meters. The surface elevation is between 1750-1900 meters, and the terrain fluctuates little. It shows that the topography in the karst cave distribution area is rising, and the river is incised and eroded.

Jiuxiang is densely forested with a coverage rate of 62.3% and rich in precious animal and plant resources. Zhangkoudong ancient human habitation site represents a unique Paleolithic culture in southern China, which is known as "a unique nine townships".

geographical environment

Jiuxiang scenic spot: it is a member of international cave Association and a national key scenic spot. Located in Jiuxiang Yi Hui Township, Yiliang County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, it is 90km away from the provincial capital Kunming and 30km away from the famous Shilin scenic spot. It is a new comprehensive scenic spot with karst cave landscape as the main body and natural scenery, cultural landscape and ethnic customs outside the cave.

Main attractions

Jiuxiang Cave

Developed in the Sinian period 600 million years ago, it has hundreds of large and small caves. It is the largest cave community system in China with the largest number and the most peculiar cave landscape. It is known as the "cave Museum" by experts. There are so-called "prehistoric wonders" of ancient marine microbial fossils - stromatolite, inverted stone teeth, biological karst (also known as biological reef wonders), edge stone lakes, underground square hall, dark Canyon, fish back stone, curly stone, vortex cave and other hydrogeological wonders, and typical sections and scenic spots of three-dimensional cave body and multi-layer cave landscape. Some of them are rare in China, and some of them have never been introduced in the world geology textbooks, so they are highly praised by famous scholars at home and abroad.

Yincui Gorge

——It's quiet and charming. The gorge is 600 meters long and can be rowed. The ancient cliffs on both sides of the gorge are green, the shade is thick, and the water is clear and charming. The picturesque landscape makes people linger on. Many poets and writers left many beautiful poems in Yincui Gorge, also known as lover valley.

Jinghun Gorge

——It's thrilling. The gorge is 700 meters long. It is the most spectacular Underground Grand Canyon ever found in China. The two sides of the gorge are cut like knives and axes. It is nearly 100 meters from the bottom of the gorge to the top of the cave. The narrowest part of the gorge is only three or four meters wide.

Lion Hall

——Underground square. Lion hall, with a total area of 15000 square meters, is the largest underground square hall in the world, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people. What's more amazing is that there is a complete plate on the top of the hall, which is embedded with several nest shaped vortices. The whole top plate is seamless.

Goddess Palace

——Exquisite and exquisite. It is a typical representative of karst underground scenery, in which the stalactites are exquisitely carved, either leaning or cuddling, or sitting or lying, just like a group of fairies singing and dancing here, gathering in the palace, competing for splendor, giving people a feeling of approaching fairyland.

Male and female waterfall

——Earth shaking. It is an underground double flying waterfall. The two waterfalls climb down from a cliff more than 30 meters high. The depth of the pool is more than 10 meters. The waterfall falls straight down, deafening. The maximum flow of the waterfall is 320 cubic meters per second. The magnificent momentum is earth shaking, like two romantic lovers, which is the only wonder in the cave in China.

Kanda

——Heaven makes wonders. Shentian is a large group of side stone lakes with an area of more than 100 square meters and a depth of more than 10 meters. It is a rare wonder in the world and is praised as the world's largest by international cave experts.

Linyinzhai

——Rich customs. In the underground world with a depth of 100 meters, there are unique landscapes of Yi People's customs, such as dense forest, chieftain's castle, etc., reflecting the honest national customs of ancient Yi people.

Bat Cave

——The underground stone forest. Bat cave is characterized by stalactites hanging upside down, just as the stone forest is long upside down. Another distinctive feature of these stalactites is that the stone forest is inclined in a large range and irregular. If you look at it carefully, it is caused by different air flow directions. Therefore, a magical scenery of wind blowing stone bend is added in Jiuxiang.

Jiuxiang tourist cableway

——Crossing mountains and valleys. The cableway spans nearly 1000 meters, like a flying rainbow across the green mountains and green mountains. Visitors can enjoy the surface scenery of Jiuxiang in different seasons, and visit the ancient human site zhangkou cave, spanning tens of thousands of years.

Tourism information

Admission: 90 yuan / person

It's only 40 minutes from Kunming to Yiliang. There is a bus to Yiliang at Kunming east bus station.

There are many hotels in Yiliang County.

Address: Jiuxiang Yi Hui Township, Yiliang County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province

Longitude: 103.389575481

Latitude: 25.068369722491

Tel: 0871-7511998; 0871-67

Official website: http://www.ynjx.com/

Tour time: half a day

Transportation information: 1. Take a minibus from Kunming new East passenger station to Yiliang County, the ticket price is 30 yuan / person. Get off at Shuanglu Hotel Station in Yiliang County, and then walk to the edge of the middle triangle green belt of the road, and wait for No. 21 urban and rural bus (Yiliang Jiuxiang), half an hour, the ticket price is 6 yuan

2. Kunming railway station by train (7452 / 7453) departure time 7:09, about 2 hours by car, 9:17 to Yiliang north station, and then take the bus in Yiliang County to Jiuxiang

3. The reference fare for direct taxi from Kunming airport and railway station to Jiuxiang scenic spot: Xiali round trip 200-300 yuan, ordinary Santana round trip 300-400 yuan, 2000 Santana round trip 550-600 yuan

Ticket information: 120 yuan per person, including 30 yuan for cableway and 80 yuan for tour guide. Tickets for the elderly aged 60-70, primary and secondary school students and active servicemen with valid certificates are 60 yuan per person; tickets for the elderly aged over 70, children under 1.30 meters, retired personnel, disabled people and municipal model workers with valid certificates are free

Opening hours: 9:00-18:00

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