Swallow Cave

Yanzidong is located on the right side of YANZIYA gorge, which is wide and can accommodate thousands of people. Inside the cave, the stalagmites are standing crazily, dripping water and tinkling. What's more strange is that tens of millions of swallows live here all the year round, no matter in spring, summer, autumn or winter, and their nests are densely covered with cave tops and cliffs. It's very dark in the cave. It's better to take a flashlight or use a mobile phone to illuminate when you go in.

Swallow Cave

Yanzi cave in Jianshui, a national scenic spot and national AAAA scenic spot, is located in the mountain gorge 22 km east of Jianshui County, 220 km away from Kunming, the provincial capital. The whole line is accessible by expressway. It is named after millions of big white waisted swift nests, which are rich in nourishing bird nests. Yanzi cave is famous for its unique landscapes such as "the wonders of ancient caves, the gathering of spring swallows, the stone carvings of Moyan, the hanging plaque of bell milk, and the unique skill of picking bird's nest". The scenic area covers an area of 18.85 hectares. The whole tourist area is composed of natural forest land, dry cave religious and cultural area and water cave. The dry cave is famous for its unique cultural landscape, such as rock carvings, cliff corridors and spring swallows; the water cave is famous for its rich karst landscape.

position

Yanzidong is located 30 kilometers east of Jianshui County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province.

Outside the cave, there are more than 30000 square meters of natural forest land with luxuriant branches and leaves. Inside the cave, there are millions of swiftlets. Every spring and summer in Honghe, Yunnan, the swiftlets fly like ten thousand arrows, which is very spectacular. As early as the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, some people raised money to repair the stone. After the founding of new China, the Honghe government of Yunnan allocated money for many times.

Yanzi cave is located 28 kilometers east of the ancient city of Jianshui on one side of the highway, about 200 kilometers away from Kunming. The cave is more than 4000 meters long, more than 50 meters high and more than 30 meters wide. Every spring and summer, hundreds of thousands of swifts from Malaysia, Indonesia and other places gather here to build nests and hatch eggs, so it is called Swallow Cave. Swallow Cave is divided into two parts, one up and one down, one dry and one wet. You can walk from the dry road, or you can enter by boat. There are three groups of large-scale karst landscapes distributed in the cave, with a total tourist area of more than 40000 square meters. The whole water cave has dozens of halls and hundreds of scenic spots. In the Swallow Cave Tourism, perhaps the most unforgettable is that hundreds of thousands of little swallows, they fly up and down, while whispering. The chirping sound and the sound of running water in the cave together form a unique symphony, which is full of imagination. Yanzi cave is the most well protected karst cave group with the most abundant scenery and the largest capacity in Southwest China. The water in the cave, the cave in the cave, and the stalactite hanging upside down on the top of the cave are in various forms. There are dozens of independent scenic spots. It seems like you are in a fairyland of Qiongyao. It is a veritable "rock palace and stone mansion". The auxiliary scenic spots of Yanzidong tourism include lingque mountain village, well preserved ancient street houses of Ming and Qing Dynasties and a hundred year old theater. The main scenic area of Yanzidong is under the main peak of wangjiadaliang on the north side of the midstream of Fushui River, 1.3km away from the ancient town, and about 80m away from the water surface. It is a limestone cave group formed by the crustal movement of Cambrian Paleozoic era, with a history of 500 million years With a total area of 20000 square meters, it is known as the first Swallow Cave in Southwest China. In the middle of fushuihe gorge, there are Qifeng towering on the left and right. In front of the cave, there is Heilong cave, which is warm in winter and cool in summer. It is another wonder that water falls all the year round. Green trees in the mountains and green cages, ancient trees twining with vines and kudzu, branches singing and swallows dancing, and flowers and plants in the fields colorful. Yanzi cave, Changling Grand Canyon, Gangjia ancient village, shiziling, Tuofeng mountain, ironing ancient town and lingque mountain form a natural scenic spot with beautiful scenery and perfect ecology, covering an area of more than 20 square kilometers. In Shennongjia, there is a kind of "short billed swiftlet". This kind of swiftlet, which lives in the mountains without human trace, never leaves all year round for thousands of years, unlike other swallows flying south in winter. Regardless of the storm, ice and snow, swiftlets still soar over the forest. Even in the dense fog, they can rise to more than 1000 meters and hover, so that people can't see them with their naked eyes. They live in the Swallow Cave of YANZIYA in Shennongjia. Swallow Cave is deep and quiet, about 20 meters high. It is quite wide and can hold thousands of people.

Partial hole

There is a side hole on the right side and a small hole on the upper left side. It comes out of the cliff and sunlight can shine into the hole. There are many stalactites in the cave, the sound of water drops is like a harp, and swallow nests are all over the cave wall. The swishing sound of the Golden Swallow is endless, and the cold wind is blowing. About 50 meters into the hole, there is no light, the more you go in, the more dark, less than 100 meters, you can't see your fingers. But these swallows are totally unaware that when swallows return to their nests, there are countless. They will not collide with the cliff, and they will not collide with each other. They can accurately fall back to their nests in the dark. Scientists have done interesting experiments to catch swallows in the wild, cover their eyes with black cloth or adhesive tape, and then let them fly. They can still fly back to the cave accurately and pass through the cave as usual. Why? It turns out that there is a precision device similar to ultrasonic inside their bodies, which can detect whether there are obstacles in front without eyes. At the same time, they also have the ability to distinguish the position according to the position of the sun, moon and stars. It's incredibly sensitive. It turns out that this kind of swallow is a Golden Swallow living on the edge of the ocean. After the change of the Mediterranean Sea in ancient times, the sea water receded and the land formed. However, due to the special geological climate of Shennongjia, especially the warm winter and cool summer in the cave, the climate environment has maintained the original marine characteristics, so the Golden Swallow has been left behind and passed down from generation to generation until now. Swiftlets, like domestic swallows, forage for pests in the forest, which is of great benefit. Many swallow caves like YANZIYA have been found in dashennongjia, but most of them are swallows.

Cave landscape

Three groups of large-scale karst landscapes are distributed on the 3 km zigzag and undulating sightseeing line in the cave. Each scenic spot presents various kinds of stalagmites. There are dozens of halls and halls in the whole water cave, the largest of which is more than 20000 square meters. There are hundreds of scenic spots, with a total area of more than 40000 square meters. The first scenic spot "Longquan exploration", there are 34 meters high "Qingtian Yuzhu", a thousand layer lotus terrace emerging from the river, and dozens of landscapes such as "dragon Maiden's first marriage", "double elephant sipping", "golden hair roaring lion", "Yaotai site", "Taoyuan Wonderland". The second scenic spot is "beauty of Tianjie". At the top of the cave wall at the end of the scenic spot, climb up an unobtrusive entrance of about 6 square meters, and a higher-level hall with an area of about 3000 square meters presents in front of you. The bell milk landscape is extremely rich, with a large area of curly stones as white as jade, crystal clear, fluffy, needle like, tubular; hanging, horizontal, vertical long, delicate, strange and everywhere It collects all the essence of the cave, and people call it the "Crystal Palace". Closely connected with the terminal of the first scenic spot, it is a cliff corridor 35 meters higher than the river bed, with a total length of 250 meters and an area of 2300 square meters. The corridor is divided into several halls by stone pillars, stone curtains and stone screen wind. There are "Qiannv Yingbin", "Cuigai Yongmei", "old palace treasure", "elephant ear hanging", "Castle dusk", "Eight Immortals going to dinner", "old monk looking at the moon" and "Sutra road" And 300 square meters of rest hall. The third scenic spot "dream world" is 120 meters away from the terminal of the second scenic spot. It is an independent dry cave connected with the water cave. The cave is 40 meters high and oval in shape, with an area of 20000 square meters. The landscape is concentrated, which is the essence of Yanzi cave landscape, accounting for 2/3 of the landscape. Among them, the more prominent are "Swan playing with toad", "two snails talking to each other", "rhinoceros watching the moon", "Kunpeng spreading its wings", "Southern coconut forest", "Xuangong parting scenery", "tortoise and snake competing", "European Grand Stage" and other wonders. The bell milk hanging in the cave is so beautiful that it is dazzling. The water cave road is 750 meters long. You can enjoy the wonderful scenery along the river by taking a dragon boat from the entrance. You can be in the grand cavity of Yanzi cave and drive directly to the hall of "dream world" in the third scenic spot. The hall covers an area of 13000 square meters. There are colorful fountains and waterfalls on the right side of the hall. Tourists can dance in the dance hall three million years ago, taste Jianshui snacks and buy various souvenirs. In the development of the third scenic spot of Yanzidong, the developer found two grinded stone tools and one chopper at the back of the scenic spot, accompanied by teeth, bones and charcoal chips of water deer, pigs, dogs, squirrels and other animals. Identified by Zhang xingyong, director of paleoanthropology Research Office of Yunnan Provincial Museum, it is a Neolithic cultural site three or four thousand years ago, which will be developed as a new scenic spot cultural tourism area in the future. As early as after the revolution of 1911, chairman Zhu De visited Yanzi cave when he was the commander of Yunnan army battalion and stationed in Shuinan school. On June 9, 1962, the chairman of the committee came to southern Yunnan for inspection. He passed the cave and stopped to swim again. He was full of interest. After leaving, he wrote a poem named Swallow Cave: "the swallow nest is full of rocks, and the swallows dance. Spring comes and autumn goes, but there are many descendants. When tourists write poems, farmers are forbidden to snare. Xintiandi in the cave runs through Jianshui river. Twenty kilometers away, Kaiyuan is exposed. Before that, he was a bandit's cave, fighting against bandits. Taoists call it a hundred years old, but pilgrims believe it. Lin'an scenic spot, summer temperature and temperature

name

Swallow Cave is a karst cave. It was named Swallow Cave because there were countless swallows in the cave. Swallow Cave is not only famous for its magical stalactites, but also for its large number of bird's nests. In the past, every July and August, rock climbers gathered in the Swallow Cave to collect bird's nests. The experts here are really high

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