Xishan Grottoes

Xishan Grottoes scenic area is located on the Bank of Taohua river with beautiful scenery in Guilin. It has a long history. It is a thousand year old natural cave integrating Buddhist culture, history and cultural landscape, and mainly for sightseeing. The scenic spot has a zhaicaixuan which can accommodate more than 200 people, and can receive group meals and vegetarian banquets.

Xishan Grottoes

Xishan Grottoes scenic area is located on the Bank of Taohua river with beautiful scenery in Guilin. It has a long history. It is a thousand year old natural cave integrating Buddhist culture, history and cultural landscape, and mainly for sightseeing.

geographical position

Xishan Grottoes Scenic Area

It is located on the Bank of Taohua River in Guilin. It is the birthplace of human landscape in Guilin.

Famous landscape

Xishan Grottoes scenic area has a long history. It is a thousand year old natural karst cave with Buddhist culture and history.

The natural karst cave has three largest caves in the world.

Thousand-hand Bodhisattva

The world's most famous "thousand hands and thousand eyes" Avalokitesvara, with 1280 hands and eyes, is the only "thousand hands and thousand eyes" Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in the cave, which is 6 meters high and 13 meters wide, with 1280 hands and eyes. When viewed from the front, the fingers are slender and long, with a variety of shapes, just like a peacock, which is very spectacular.

Reclining Buddha

The largest reclining Buddha in the cave in the world is the largest reclining Buddha in the cave. Using the natural rocks in the cave, he created the largest "Nirvana statue" of Sakyamuni, which is 43 meters long in the cave of the world. His face is full and round, his ears are big, and he lies on his side, facing the Western Paradise.

It was before master Jianzhen's sixth eastward voyage that he came here to find the reclining Buddha and meditated in the cave for a year.

Baidi relief

"Baidi relief" is the longest corridor in the world. "Baidi relief" is a two meter high and 200 meter long relief of Baidi. It is carved with the historical background of the relevant characters to record the merits and demerits of the emperors of all dynasties. The plot is vivid, full of wit and ingenuity, which makes the still painting extremely dynamic and condenses the history of the Chinese millennium.

Adjacent landscape

Five hundred arhat Hall

"Five hundred Arhats hall": it is the only "five hundred Arhats hall" in South China, which worships five hundred Arhats of different shapes and names. It is said that all living beings in this world are reincarnation of each arhat; tourists can find their own arhat status in the previous life from 500 Arhats.

Zodiac cave

In addition, there are "twelve zodiac cave", "release pool" and a series of historical and cultural landscapes in the cave,

The scenic spot is a thousand year old cave integrating Buddhist grottoes, historical culture and unique human landscape.

Address: Xishan Grottoes scenic area, No.6 Taohuajiang Road, Guilin, Guangxi

Longitude: 110.26937

Latitude: 25.28536

Chinese PinYin : Xi Shan Shi Ku