Zhangjiajie Yellow Dragon Cave,Huanglong Dong

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Last Updated: 11/30/2006 00:04:23 Print

Yellow Dragon Cave was discovered by local villagers in 1983 and opened to tourists in 1984. Some tourists thought of the cave as the most beautiful in China. It is a very large limestone cave, occupying an area of 100,000 square meters. The length of the cave is 7.6 kilometers and the height is 140 meters. It comprised of two drought stores and two wet stores, two underground rivers, four waterfalls, 13 caverns and 10,000 stalagmites and stalactites. Although about two fifth of the cave is open to tourists, the time needed to explore this huge cave amounted to approximately two hours.

The tourists’ traveling route in the cave is 2 kilometers by walk and 800 meters by water. The main scenic sights in the cave are as follow: One hundred meter corridor, Double Gates, Dragon Ballroom Cavern, Xiangshui River, Waterfall Cavern, Stone Monkey Cavern, Market Cavern, The Fairy Bridge, Dragon Place Cavern, and Magic Needle. Tourists will pass One Hundred Meter Corridor, leading to two gates. The left gate was named fortune gate and the right gate was named long life gate. This is Dragon Ballroom Cavern. According to fables, Dragon King once held a dance in this place.

Name:Zhangjiajie Yellow Dragon Cave (Huanglong Dong)
City:Zhangjiajie
Address:Zhangjiajie Scenic area
Admission:Free