Zhijing Rock Cave
Zhijin Cave is a key national scenic spot and one of the 4 excellent 
tourist attractions in China. It is the only karst cave in Association 
for Tour. The Zhijin Cave Scenic Spot together with the other national 
scenic spots such as Huangguoshu Waterfall, the Dragon Palace and 
the Red Maple Lake forms a circular tourist line in the west part of 
Guizhou Province. 
The Zhijin Cave Scenic Spot covers an area of 307 square kilometers 
including the ancient town of Zhijin, the central part of Zhijin Cave, 
the Luojie River Gorge and the Biyun (blue clouds) Lake Vacational 
Resort. The total length of Zhijin Cave surveyed is 12.1kilometers. 
The broadest part of the cave reaches 175 meters and its relative 
height from the bottom to the top measure 150 meters. The common 
height and width of the cave is between 60 and 100 meters. The total 
area inside the cave is 7000000 square meters. 
Zhijin Cave is an outstanding cream bestowed by the nature. It is 
characterized by its grand scale, marvelous spectacle and complete 
varieties of stalactite. There are over 40 kinds of karst precipitation 
forms in the cave, embracing the main kinds found in karst cave all 
over the word. Zhijin Cave consists of 11 halls which are divided into 
47 chambers. A new look of multifarious atmosphere and limitless 
scenes can be found in the following: Such as the magnificent 
Underground Pagoda Forest, the visionary state of Iron Mount Mist, 
the boundless stretch of Sillent Mountains, the majestic 
one-hundred-foot-high Stone Curtains, the abstruse Moon Palace, 
the mysterious Linxiao Hall (Hall of the Supreme Deity of Taoism) 
in the Heavenly Palace, the forceful and straight Curly Stalactite, 
the lifelike elephant-riding god Puxian (Samantabhadr) and the 
Harmonious Relationship of the Puoxi (the mother-in-law and the 
daughter-in-law) etc. All these karst landscapes look like large 
scaled paintings and are acclaimed as the acme of perfection with 
their amazing charms. Some experts have made observations of 
Zhijin Cave and compared it with the karst caves in France and 
Yugoslavia which are well-known all over the world, yet they have 
come to the conclusion that Zhijin Cave is much more grand, 
complete and graceful in scale, type of shapes and natural 
landscapes than them.