Address: Yanzi Cave, Miandian Town, Jianshui County, Yunnan Province

Ticket price: 80 yuna

Tel: 0873-7821068

Website: www.yanzidong.com

The provincial-level Yanzi Cave Scenic Area is a like an splendid and important scenic area of the national-level historic and cultural city Jianshui. Located at 103.3°E and 23.38°N, its altitude is between 1,220 and 1,270 meters. It is 30 kilometers to the west of the seat of the Jianshui County and between 50 and 60 kilometers far from Gejiu, Kaiyuan and Mengzi. The Jijie-Shiping Highway and Mengzi-Baoxiu Railway pass through the area, making the traffic very convenient. The Yanzi Cave started development in 1986 and opened to tourists in 1987. Then, tourists started pouring in the cave. The cave is the most magnificent and spacious cave of the world. 

The Yanzi Cave Scenic Area consists of the Park outside Cave, Dry Cave and Water cave. 

The park outside the cave has more than 30,000 mu of thriving natural forest. The main varieties of trees include the robur, camphor, rough-leaf tree, holly tree and “scent tree.” This is the “scent tree” which could be used to expelling mosquitoes. 

The Dry Cave is a religious cultural area. It started development in the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, about 300 years from now. Its development reached the peak when Duan Zhigang was the chief of the Taoist Group. The cave contains about 100 stone tablets of various historical periods. Various statues of the Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are also displayed in the cave. 

The entrance of the cave is huge and splendid and the inside of the cave is high and wide. The average height of the cave is 31.5 meters and the maximum height is more than 60 meters. The average width is 38 meters and the maximum width is more than 150 meters. The cave is “ancient, strange, quiet and deep.” Many small caves and branch caves could also be found inside the cave, and the total tourism area of the cave is more than 100,000 square meters. The Lujiang River originates from the Yilong Lake, goes through the Yanzi Cave, joins the Nanpan River in Kaiyuan, then flows into the Pearl River, and ultimately reaches the South China Sea. The Lujiang’s part in the cave is about 5,000 meters, where eight fish varieties, including the frequently-seen carp and catfish, live.